the only thing mattel manufacters in the united states is profits..MATTEL IF YOU DONT MAKE IT HERE,DONT SELL IT HERE

I would love to see class action lawsuits against every American company that imports and sells any products that are poisonous, or potentially harmful. A few good punitive damage awards might make the cost of importing goods prohibitive, and force these businesses to start having their work done back in the U.S.

These recalls of unsafe toys, dangerous tires, poison pet food and toothpaste are just tips of the iceberg - so little imported stuff ever gets inspected we don't even know yet what gets past.

We are now starting to see the real costs of globalization - and they are much much greater than the couple bucks we might "save" at Mao-Mart(debateable how much savings really gets passed on to the consumer, most seems to end up in the CEO's pocket)

The pro-global "free" traders have done a great job obfuscating and overlooking the product safety issue - a combination of willfill deception and blind aherence to a failed and unsustainable ideology.

They are also doing a good job making "protectionist" a bad word just like they did with "librul" - but if protecting our kids and pets from unsafe products and protecting your friends, relatives and neighbors jobs is protectionist I am proud to say I am all for it - in fact it is congress' jobconstitutional responsibility to protect citizens from the abuses of free trade - not opening our borders up to some wild west form of commie capitalism.

Mattel made a choice, now they find themselves in an position of appologizing for the shortcomings of the system they chose to guarantee their profits. They chose greed over responsibility to either their American or their 3rd World workers--this is what happens--lack of oversight, lack of testing, lack of anything that might cut into profits puts all consumers at risk not to mention the workers that are using these toxic chemicals. You made your choice Mattel quit shifting the blame to the Chinese--what did you expect! You made your money--is it worth it?

I can see that the lead paint problem was a design
flaw on Mattel's part.

Any good designer would have made the toys so that
they would have jumped off the work-bench and
screamed, "You can't put lead paint on me."

This morning's news claims the true meaning of

the Mattel Executive's words have been "LOST IN THE

TRANSLATION."

Mattel agrees with one.

China, another.

For the consumer: BEWARE, THEY DON'T CARE!

1. Plausible deniability.
2. Whatever the market will bear.
3. Dumb shoppers and stupid workers deserve what we give them.
4. Move labor and ownership to different jurisdictions.
5. It's ponzi all the way down.

These motherfuckers! Their whole recall is a sham!
After you send back their poisonous toys you get a credit voucher for the purchase of more Mattel or Fisher-Price toys. Not a refund, a credit slip! To buy more of their toxic crap! Thanks alot! You guys really care about the safety of children. Fuckin' assholes.

Mattel is taking a leaf out of the surrender monkey's play book. To appease your enemies, blame America first.

There should be a massive boycott of Mattel.There should be a massive ad campaign educating the populace about how American companies are enriching and empowering the most despotic regime on the planet.

Mattel is one of the few US companies that own 50% of their Chinese factories.
Mattel has made a net profit of approx 400-500 million in 2005 and 2006.
What would it have taken to hire one man or woman to set up a test lab and do random checks on the toys?
Class action time for them or China-Mart...

Oh - don't send anything back in the recall - this is to destroy the evidence - you will need these poison products for the class action suit.

WTF??? Where are the apologies to the consumers who bought their shoddy and unsafe products? Where are the apologies to the US workers whose jobs got shipped off the china? where are the apologies to the communities who lost tax base when the factories closed?

Mattel is the worst of the worst - a "Benedict Arnold" corporation that wants all the rights benefits and protection of the US government and full access to the US market, but wants none of the corporate citizenship in return.

Mattel puts profits ahead of children's safety - as despicable as it gets. CEO Bob Eckert should be Olbermann's worst person in the world.

No Mattel under our christmas tree this year.

Yeh, You should have kept the jobs in the US. It is your fault. I hope you go belly up.

All these product safety issues are going to be very good for China in the long run. The Chinese people are pissed about product quality too, and they are pushing the government to regulate industry more closely - and if there is one thing the Chinese government does not want is a popular uprising.

The Mattel case illustrates the complexity of the problem. The US importers of these products have responsibility to make sure the products are safe. We need to put them out of business when they ignore that responsibility.

More often than not, the problem is not that the Chinese decided to make dangerous products, it is that some American company asked them to make dangerous products, and the Chinese just agreed to do it. We can't control Chinese contract manufacturers, but their customers can, and we can certainly hold the importers accountable.