Toys R Us? How About Lead R Us?

Hey Kids! How about more lead in your toys? Well China is doing its best to provide it.
Toys R Us is recalling a line of coloring kits that contain, you guessed it, LEAD! And where were they made? CHINA! Right again.

OK aside from the almost comic nature of this whole kerfuffle, the real problem is that one of our major trading partners has absolutely no control or any compunction about shipping poisoned toys to our country. Why is this not a bigger scandal? This should be making the halls of Congress ring with the calls of angry consumers whose children are at risk of lead poisoning from Chinese playthings.

I suspect it’s not a bigger deal because those companies that sell these lead laced goodies are making far too much money and they are lining the pockets of our officials to deafen their ears to the protest. Well that is a sure sign of Capitalism run amok, and I am reminded of Lenin’s “we will sell them enough rope and capitalists will hang themselves”.