When will the US start checking Chinese Imports properly.?

Question

The greed of US corporations matched by the failure of the government to check for safety violations on imports have threatened us through the food chain and now the toys we import have too much lead in the paint. It is time for US corporations to crack down on foreign imports. If those toys had been made in the us our children would not have been exposed to lead contamination. Congress continues to waste time attacking Bush instead of doing it's job and protecting the people.

Answer 1

heres a thought......why dont we make our own food,toys petfood and screw those people.

Answer 2

When the money is right, then everyone will be happy. If the toy were made here though, neither you nor I could afford it. It all comes down to profit and how much of it the corporate giants can make and avoid paying taxes for.
Everyone has an agenda, be it attacking a country other than ours, feeding the homeless, saving the whales, alternative energy..........what ever it is, you can't please everyone. It would be nice if the American people felt that they were put first though.

Answer 3

You have to pay significantly more for that toy if it was made in the US. The regulations that your liberal government and worker unions have placed on American manufacturers have made it virtually impossible to make something inexpensively using US labor.

Buy and American car - a significant % of the cost is actually the medical insurance for the workers who built it.

There aren't enough inspectors to check all the goods coming in, also there is pressure to move goods through customs quickly particularly food items.

Answer 4

As long as there's money to be made you can count on the government to crack down on Chinese imports. About ten or twelve years from now, maybe longer.

Answer 5

there is no way they can do that.