I have heard that line of rubbish more times from the platform, especially around this time of year. Yet, given the number of children with few or no toys, about 90% of the time, they get little or nothing year round. Sometimes it is because of poverty, often induced because the parents are supposed to cut back on their work and pious-sneer or donate excessive amounts to the Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund (or both). Other times, it is because the parents believe too many toys is bad for spirituality.
Now, one fine example I was privy to observe was at a Grand Boasting Session. There were 3 children that appeared relatively poor, as the parents drove about 120 km each way each day to the session instead of the motel (though that alone could be because of the bedbug infested dumps on the list). Among them was a Happy Meal binoculars. As one could imagine, that thing was of crap quality with severe distortion due to cheap plastic optics. However, the way they acted toward that thing, that was probably their first encounter with anything that resembled a toy in their lives. I happened to have a toy calculator, in the shape of a crayon with a membrane keyboard that pulled out (and a sealed battery). I let them play with that--it got ruined because it too was cheap crap. Examples like this indicate that plenty of witless children rarely to never get toys to play with.
Now, granted there are probably some that get their share of toys. However, I have seen plenty of children in field circus playing with sticks, doodling in books with pencils, and playing with empty Tic Tac boxes (and getting their share of spankings and beatings for doing so). Their parents' attitude: If they don't have much to play with, they won't be whining to go in from field circus and will be more willing to stay out all afternoon without complaining. No wonder so many of them rarely get toys, even if the parents can afford them.
And, with the recent washtowel hounding parents to cut back on work and donate all their spare money to the Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund, I am expecting this to get much worse. Parents that don't have much money can't give their children toys. And what little they do have goes toward donations. Money wasted on suit dry cleanings, gas, and car maintenance is money that can't buy toys. Also, if they drop a day of work so they can do more field circus, that is a day's pay that they cannot use for playthings. While things with unemployment and the prospect of hyperinflation in the not so distant future crimp Christmas for everyone, at least they aren't hounded to cut back on work so they can do more churches. Or give more to their church (and, if they are hounded too much, most of them have the option of retorting "If you are going to keep hounding me to donate more, you aren't getting anything at all" or quitting their church). Try that with the jokehovians.
