" . . . every new product manufactured here has a significant "value added" to the cost to cover frivolous law suits . . ."

They are all frivolous lawsuits until it is your child who ends up with brain damage on the operating table due to a defective anethesia machine, or your wife becomes a parapalegic due to a defective step ladder, etc. (and by "your" I mean the generic "your", not anyone specifically).

--shinbone