Posted On: December 5, 2008, 9:03 am CST

Posted By: Shield

Toxic, I guess I throw that "take responsibility" catch phrase around so much because I just find it troubling to see people lining up to sue someone everytime something bad happens. And from my perspective, in most cases this seems to be pushed by attorneys that make their living by encouraging people to sue instead of take responsiblity for themselves. In our current litigious society it seems to be the norm to assume that someone is going to be sued if something bad happens to someone, no matter that the wronged person had some, if not all of the blame for the occurence. Yes, I think it is wrong for a company to knowingly use hazardous chemicals when manufacturing a toy. Although I think in most of these cases I'm not sure if they've assessed blame as to who is responsible for the actual creation of these "bad" toys. If they had and it was an American company, I suspect they'ed have been sued out of existance by now. Lets fix the problem. Our government needs to be slapping tarrifs on imports and giving tax breaks and other incentives to companies to manufacture in this country. Then for the most part you don't have to worry about what the toys are made of that your kids are chewing on.