Posted on 07/28/2007 5:14:29 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
Hey, ya get what ya pay for.
Imagine how much less expensive (and available) American-made products would be if liability lawyers got this kind of response from U.S. courts and bureaucracies.
I know. In my dreams...
The Chinese hoodwinked us out of the Panama Canal, bought an American president and got state-of-the-art computer and missile technology in the bargain, but if anything is to be their undoing, greedy, ambulance-chasing American lawyers will make them sorry they ever heard of America! /humor
Big reason american companies are moving to asia.. even if it is cheaper to produce here in america and ship short distances. You can have a great business like 50 million in sales.. and have a hard earned 2 million a year profit..
Then a product was faulty, an oversight, or maybe some idiot used it the wrong way. Then a big jackpot lawsuit comes and wipes out 5 years of profit. Its just too risky. And I’ve been a stock trader years ago, markets hate risk.
On the other hand you can incorporate in a foreign country, contract out to oem’s through numbered companies shell companies. You move any profit out of the accounts often. Then drop off the product at the ports to an american company. If you get sued and lose, you only lose a small money in the accounts.. then shut down that company and open up new shell companies, and import again through the oem’s.
What it is basically is a very complex way of giving customers an option, you can buy this product which is cheaper but you forego the right to sue in the future. So use the product at your own risk.
it occurs to me that this is no worse than ANYTHING a kid can choke on......which is a matter of size, not whether or not it is a toy.....that kids put things into their mouths and occasionally choke on them is a fact and hazard of life. This is like trying to sue a scissors manufacturer because a kid tripped while running with them.
If you take a look at the ties of the Bush family to the ChiComs, it would be more accurate to state that the Chinese have bought at least 3 American presidents (Bush '41, Slick Willie, and Bush '43).
Don't forget that before 9/11, Bush '43 was grabbing his ankles in 2001 when the ChiComs held a U.S. flight crew hostage and kept the plane.
“Patriotic thing??” I don’t think that has anything to do with it. All they are interested in is filling their pockets with money and since they undoubtedly didn’t get enough from everyone one who had touched or thought about putting one of the toys in the meal package they of course want to go where the pockets would be much deeper. Product ambulance chasers is what the folks are.
“kept the plane.”
Nice try. Get your facts right. They DID NOT KEEP THE PLANE. Internet searches are a great thing before posting.
The plane was released back to the U.S. It was disassembled but was released back to us.
Trial lawyers only sue Americans because trial lawyers want easy money *and* the Death of America.
Thus, ChiComs are exempt from the wrath of Trial Lawyers.
You’re *way* out of line.
Did you forget Carter?
What was out of line?
He didn’t have his facts right so he started name-calling.
“...but another when you use the product as intended and it injures or kills a child”
And what kind of toys small enough to choke a kid are intended for kids to put into their mouths? Oh. I forgot. You also said:
“I will say that it’s one thing to misuse a product and an accident occurs,....”
They did steal technology didn’t they?
The “bushbot” reference was weak but not a deletable problem.
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