China...Dude!

Hey what's the big idea? Another toy recall everybody. This time China has put GHB inside some little beads. This is the date rape drug people. Aw come on China what's going on here? Obviously this is not some sinister plot for I heard that the chemical was used to replace glue or something like that. An honest mistake perhaps. But if I may point my guns not at the Chinese but at the media for a second. It's great that they let us know about lead paint and 'roofie' drugs in toys but the buzz and scuttlebutt is what frosts me. It is as though they (we) are so proud of ourselves for exposing and criticizing the toy makers. The media act as if they're winning a war on toy makers...not unlike big brother who is supposedly winning the war on terror. And the masses-you people- huff and harumph and stamp your feet as if we are truly holy-er than thou (or them). Two things: We outsource and rush product to production and so sometimes you get lead paint and date rape drugs. Its the price of doing fast, cheap labor business. And second, it becomes increasingly difficult to take the high road with a nation that would own half of this country were they to call in their debt from us. It's as if ye of numbskull sits there and says' "Oh sure we've borrowed billions...almost trillions of dollars from you but if we made those toys, which we don't anymore we...we...we wouldn't use the roofie drug. That's for the kids in our institutions of higher learning. Oops scratch that last part." Nice rebuttal dummy. But I would argue that if our dollar continues to tank the way it is and we were in the position of building said toy for the Chinese-old Dr.Rocko in the lab might say,"Yo, Igor forget the good stuff, we're broke. Let's use the lead paint, its cheaper."
Don't get me wrong this toy stuff is horrific and the harm that came to those kids is very tragic and thank god it was exposed. But we are in bed with these people, in fact we have moved in with them and by choice, so lets keep the self congratulatory remarks and the snooty critique to a dull roar shall we.