on Sep 4th, 2007Boycott Mattel For Telling Product Safety Commission To Get Lost
If you thought the chutzpah of U.S. corporations in regard to the Consumer Product Safety Commission was limited to the ATV industry, then strap yourself into a hot wheel and sit back for a scary ride into the bowels of greedy capitalism. Robert Eckert, the Chairman and CEO of Mattel really doesn’t care what the Commission says when it comes to reporting safety violations. Get a load of this reckless statement: “Robert Eckert said in an interview that the company discloses problems on its own timetable because it believes both the law and the commission’s enforcement practices are unreasonable. Mattel said it should be able to evaluate hazards internally before alerting any outsiders, regardless of what the law says.”
Got that. Mattel thinks they should be their own enforcer when it comes to product safety. The hell with what the Commission says. Hey Robert, guess what, who needs your lousy toys! Our advice: boycott Mattel toys. Don’t buy them for your grandkids, friends or extended family. With a friend like Robert, who needs to stand in the road to get run over. Big Bob will get the job done in the name of Mattel’s bottom line.
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