News Flash! Toys made in China are cheap pieces of crap.China manufactured every one of the 24 kinds of toys recalled for safety reasons in the United States so far this year, including the enormously popular Thomas & Friends wooden train sets, a record that is causing alarm among consumer advocates, parents and regulators....Guess what? This doesn't alarm me. It doesn't cause me to feel outrage. Perhaps it is because the phrase 'Cheap Chinese Crap' never left my daily lexicon.
Over all, the number of products made in China that are being recalled in the United States by the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission has doubled in the last five years, driving the total number of recalls in the country to 467 last year, an annual record.
It also means that China today is responsible for about 60 percent of all product recalls, compared with 36 percent in 2000.
Reminds me of Homer continuing to buy food from Apu after several Kwiki-Mart related hospital visits.
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Don't worry, once upon a time the term "cheap Japanese crap" was a part of the American lexicon, followed by "cheap Korean Crap". Today those countries produce some of the highest quality goods in the world.
It may take a while, but with $1.4 trillion in foreign reserves, China has plenty of capital available for investment in upgraded manufacturing facilities and hundreds of billions more every year.
Right now, they're raking in the cash and building up their energy and transportation infrastructure. The next few years are going to be interesting.
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