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2007-08-13 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Zenster 2007-08-13 10:09|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 You gets what you pays for. Unions are a problem. But so is importing cheap labor outside the law and shipping your manufacturing base overseas. Law-abiding, traditional families are families where a man can earn enough to support his family and a mother can stay home; where he can put something aside for the care of his parents and the education of his children. A strong country makes the steel it will need in time of war and the electronics it will need to make its weapons work.

We have been sold out.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-08-13 10:41|| 2007-08-13 10:41|| Front Page Top

#2 So ya wanna fuck with Big Bird and Elmo, huh buddy?

Posted by tu3031 2007-08-13 14:53|| 2007-08-13 14:53|| Front Page Top

#3 So Mattel made a deal with the devil and now they're finding it's not as good a deal as it once seemed. Are they getting a little nervous? I hope so. I remember my wife telling me when our children were small what a great reputation Fisher-Price had. Seems to be a little tarnish on that reputation now. But probably not enough that the general public will notice and most certainly not enough to bother the politicians.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-08-13 16:10|| 2007-08-13 16:10|| Front Page Top

#4 most certainly not enough to bother the politicians

After enough repetitions of such malfeasance, it's our ~~traitor elite~~ politicians that become the root cause of this problem.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-13 20:38|| 2007-08-13 20:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Paul Midler:

One of the problems facing China is that manufacturers continue to engage in a practice I call "quality fade." This is the deliberate and secret habit of widening profit margins through a reduction in the quality of materials. Importers usually never notice what's happening; downward changes are subtle but progressive. The initial production sample is fine, but with each successive production run, a bit more of the necessary inputs are missing.

What is maddening to importers is that quality fade often occurs in the last place an importer thinks to check. The factory owner who practices quality fade knows exactly where he stands with his customer in these cat-and-mouse games. He has virtually nothing to lose and only margin to gain--and, having gotten away with it once, no one should be surprised when he goes for it again. Because it takes importers a long time to find suppliers and to get them up to speed, importers keep their suppliers a secret. Even when it is in their collective interest to share information, importers keep to themselves.

When a product is recalled in the U.S., the importer pays the cost of that recall. It remains next to impossible to take legal action in China, and only in the rarest case can an importer successfully sue the supplier responsible for a product failure. Since most suppliers are paid in full well before goods leave the factory, the importer doesn't even enjoy the leverage that comes with owing payment to the supplier. The average importer has far less leverage than imagined.

There is a sense of urgency in China, the feeling that one must work fast before the window of opportunity closes. For factories, that means taking shortcuts on quality. Many factory owners can't see beyond the next purchase order. One reason for the short-sightedness may have to do with China's political environment.

The one-party government does what it wants, when it wants. And while there may be some advantages to a government that can operate without restraint or controversy, such a system limits predictability and leaves the business sector keenly aware that it is subject to the whims of officials who may or may not know which policy is best.

Posted by Pappy 2007-08-13 21:20|| 2007-08-13 21:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Pappy, this was discussed previously, although it is no less pertinent. However, America's politicians have no excuse for ignoring the threat to their electorate.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-13 23:58|| 2007-08-13 23:58|| Front Page Top

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