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Let's Get the Lead Out!





The irony is profound.



We ship out jobs and manufacturing in order for companies to make more profits and guess what? It comes back to haunt us.



It turns out that while labor costs are lower so is the concern for product quality.



In fact, quality seems to be the last thing that the Chinese think about.



I mean these are men and women from the boondocks who are happy to make a few cents an hour. They’re not thinking about meeting our quality control standards, they’re wondering how they are going to earn enough to keep grandma in rice for the next year, buying the medicine for their sick daughter, and just putting a little meat or fish on the table…



And, instead of us finding this great bonanza that helps us stretch our depleted wages, we discover that the stuff we’ve been bringing in in bucketfuls is full of lead, contains breakable parts, has deadly ingredients and so much more…



You can’t fully blame the Chinese; they are simply doing what the manufacturers tell them to do.



The problem is our own personal preoccupation with getting the biggest bargain! And industry’s obsession with bigger and bigger profits!



It’s not about marketing; it’s about making it as cheap as you can and selling it as high as you can. That’s why today top executives make 430 times on average what the worker on the floor makes.



Something wrong with this picture? You bettcha!...



But guess what, guys, people are sick of the result of greed and profits at any price.



They’ve discovered that they really don’t want cheap products, they want products that they can trust. They want products without lead, without small parts that can fly apart,without toxic contents.



Think of this: What a great opportunity for Americans to start making American products in America again. What if the grass roots got together and said that the one thing that will differentiate us from the garbage being imported today is Quality.



How about a grass roots consortium of liberal toy makers?



Let’s face it: Quality is going to be the buzz word for the new generation.



And now’s the time to get with the program.



Are you listening, Mr. Bush?





Les Aaron

The Armchair Curmudgeon


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