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Seller, beware: Feds cracking down on garage sales
McClatchy ^ | 8/21/09 | James Rosen

Posted on 08/21/2009 11:25:10 AM PDT by Nachum

WASHINGTON — If you're planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you'd best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products.

The initiative, which targets toys and other products for children, enforces a new provision that makes it a crime to resell anything that's been recalled by its manufacturer.

(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda; beware; bho44; feds; garage; garagesales; itsforthechillrun; nannystate; resaleroundup; seller
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To: TexasRepublic
...totalitarians make criminals of us to justify controlling us.

To paraphrase Princess Leah, "The more they tighten their grip, the more of us will squeeze through their fingers."

61 posted on 08/21/2009 12:23:34 PM PDT by aragorn (We do indeed live in interesting times. NRA, GOA, SAF, CCRKBA. FUBO.)
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To: Disambiguator
marlon: We should have a Bazzar Czar

Disambiguator: BaCzaar for short.

We'll just call him "Ebaychadneczar"...

62 posted on 08/21/2009 12:25:24 PM PDT by GizmosAndGadgets (If at first you don't succeed...)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Yank the laws which directed or funded the hiring of these superfluous drones.

Feds...the original useless eaters

63 posted on 08/21/2009 12:37:02 PM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: RobRoy
My biggest complaint about lawn darts is that they were way too dull out of the box. A bench grinder fixes that up nicely! :)

This is why I LOVE Friday threads - LOL.

64 posted on 08/21/2009 12:39:54 PM PDT by randita (Chains we can bereave in.)
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To: Eaker

I dunno, but Michael Jackson had one that used bleach.


65 posted on 08/21/2009 3:24:54 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Eaker

Only on a gravel driveway !!


66 posted on 08/21/2009 3:51:51 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: MrB; Eaker; Allegra; hiredhand

Now that’s damn funny there. .......Mr B !!!


67 posted on 08/21/2009 4:01:19 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Nachum

So is O sending his brownshirts out to every garage sale?

What a bunch of jerks.


68 posted on 08/21/2009 4:03:35 PM PDT by dforest (Who is the real Jim Thompson? I am.)
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To: Nachum

My non PC childrens books I just give away for the good of mankind.


69 posted on 08/21/2009 4:06:27 PM PDT by dforest (Who is the real Jim Thompson? I am.)
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To: Nachum
silly rabbit! There's no money in that.

And so I bet they will be lets say open to closing an eye for a fee. Only the corrupt would enforce this to start with.

70 posted on 08/21/2009 4:18:53 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: MrB
The “Ruling Class” of elitists knows better than we do, and have a right and a duty to substitute their superior goals and decisions for ours. That’s how they think.

I think we have a right to live our lives unharased by those we elect. The founders did as well.

71 posted on 08/21/2009 4:22:03 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: freebird5850
What’s next......Cash for cupcakes?

Shakedowns by brownshirts wanting either bribes for their silence or you get arrested.

72 posted on 08/21/2009 4:24:04 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: Nachum

Could this be an excuse for the Feds to snoop through our possessions?

Toy-related accidents killed 18 children in 2007

November 13, 2008

Reporting from Washington — At least 18 children younger than 15 died in toy-related accidents in 2007.

Most of the deaths were caused by blocked airways, drowning or accidents involving motor vehicles, according to Consumer Product Safety Commission data. Many of the incidents were not caused by the toys but occurred while the children were playing.

Fourteen of the 18 children were boys.

Five children were killed in tricycle-related incidents — one from a fall, one from a motor vehicle accident and three from drowning after falling into pools while riding.

Another child died from complications after falling into a pool while riding a battery-powered vehicle. Two drowned while playing near water — one with an inflatable toy and another with a toy boat.

Four children choked on rubber balls and two on uninflated balloons. One boy died after he inhaled a rubber dart, and a 6-month-old suffocated when he fell off a bed onto a stuffed toy.


73 posted on 08/21/2009 10:06:58 PM PDT by Exton1
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To: Exton1

The Rats won’t be happy until they have sealed us into a regulated rubber room.

In the meantime, they refrain from doing something actually useful, like sending out lists of the hazardous items so a purchaser knows what to watch out for.


74 posted on 08/21/2009 10:59:19 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
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To: Nachum

“Got to read a ways through the story to find this, but this is one of Bush’s follies”

The Resale Roundup is being enforced under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, which Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law last year.


75 posted on 08/21/2009 11:26:51 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: NavyCanDo

“The Resale Roundup is being enforced under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, which Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law last year.”

Yup. And that’s why some of us became Libertarians.


76 posted on 08/22/2009 12:07:14 AM PDT by Bhoy (The check is in the mail.)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!
The initiative, which targets toys and other products for children, enforces a new provision that makes it a crime to resell anything that's been recalled by its manufacturer.

You'll have to pry my lawn darts from my cold dead hands.

77 posted on 08/22/2009 1:19:38 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barry Falsewitness is proud of his "healthy skepticism" of organized religion. He's a deceiver.)
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To: marlon
Sounds to me like this is a serious problem. We should have a Bazzar Czar and at least 20,000 unionized inspectors to oversee this illegal black market now. If just 1 child is spared having to suffer the trauma of getting a defective toy, well how can you really put a price tag on that?

It's for the children, baby. For the chil-dren!

78 posted on 08/22/2009 2:47:02 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (this slope is getting slippereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...)
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To: GeronL

Lead Prompts Libraries to Remove Some Children’s Books
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319244/posts


79 posted on 08/22/2009 7:43:58 AM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Be prepared for tough times. FReepmail me to learn about our survival thread!)
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To: MrB

Politics ain’t beanbag.


80 posted on 08/22/2009 7:50:27 AM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Be prepared for tough times. FReepmail me to learn about our survival thread!)
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