Posted on 01/04/2009 6:02:37 AM PST by Megben
Trent Hamm at thesimpledollar.com writes in his January 3 entry (excerpted) : "For those of you who haven’t heard the news yet, on February 10, 2009, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act comes into effect. One of the major changes that this program will bring into play is a mandate that everything sold for children 12 and younger will have to be tested for lead and phthalates, and anything that isn’t tested (or that fails) will be considered hazardous and cannot be sold. Read more about the CPSIA at the L.A. Times and some interesting blog commentary from the fashion industry. Where things get interesting is with used products. Consider your local resale and thrift shop. Currently, all of their secondhand children’s clothes will have to be tested for lead and phthalates. Given that many such stores aren’t high-income operations - many are nonprofits - these shops simply cannot afford to do the testing on the children’s clothes on their shelves.
So what happens? Most thrift shops are currently not accepting any children’s clothing at all. Sometime in the next month or so, all thrift shops will have to clear all of their children’s clothing from the shelves … and send them to the landfill. (It’s worth noting that the Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering a reprieve for products made from natural materials, which would exempt some clothes, but not nearly all clothes"
From reading the whole article, it appears that this will apply to used/new products that are sold at garage sales, thrift stores, ebay, etc. The discussion that follows the blog posts lists going to the sites of the National Bankruptcy Day or the Handmade Toy Alliance Site to write your congressman/woman.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesimpledollar.com ...
Don’t forget Laura herself lost her only son when he was about 10 days old. So Ma, Laura, and Rose. I always wondered how Ma and Pa’s fortunes would have been different had Pa had someone to help him support the family.
Actually, I read that this was due to the Rh positive thingy ( or whatever it's called) where the first child is ok, but the levels build up so that subsequent children die.
I'm sort of a LIW fan, and have visited every homesite except Almanzo's in NY.
I make over 2/3 of my children’s clothes. I actually sell custom-kids clothing on ebay, and have for several years, and this may totally destroy my business, that I’ve worked years to build up, if it is enforced. I have no idea if I will have a business in a few months :(
Notice in the article that it says that the highest problem for lead and phthalates is from clothing that have been made flame retardant.
Now how many lawsuits came into play in recent history from kids pajamas and clothing NOT being flame retardant.
This is assinine.
“Frankly, I am ashamed of this government (not of America). Everything they do is about controlling the masses and taking their hard-earned money (and that goes for both parties); not liberating them.”
Well, I’m ashamed of the Government AND America, because stupid Americans are who elected this pathetic excuse for a Government.
Great, then they will need more money to operate. We donate a lot to Salvation Army and will continue, this law really stinks.
First, identify the political whores who voted for this act. Second, see what kids’ clothes retailers or manufacturers donated to those whores. Follow the money and you will learn who prefers political donations to the interests of the constituents.
If the Salvation Army sells the clothes in their thrift stores, then it applies to them.
That’s what the article is about. All the thrift stores and consignment shops are going to go out of business and some thrift stores aren’t even accepting children’s clothing right now.
Yeah, I missed one.
Pa was a fairly shiftless character. They tried to gloss that over in the biographies, but I could see it.
Laura was the tomboy and nothing could shake her love for Pa.
Michael Landon gave the totally wrong impression.
Barney Frank will be personally sniffing for contraband jock straps on children 12 and under.
In all seriousness, this law is insane. In economic times like these parents need to have the only cheap source of children's clothing dry up under the pretense of 'protecting the children'??? You can bet your bottom dollar this law was enacted to help the clothing industry make better profits. The booming used clothing business on eBay, the Salvation Army, Goodwill and local used clothing stores must be pinching Walmart and Sears' profit margins, so naturally the corrupt politicians must earn their campaign contributions and enact such bogus laws. Bush the Magnificent signed this into law too.
So how do our solons in Washington decide to fix the problem of the Chicoms shipping shoddy, even poisonous, goods? They pass a surpassingly general law that punishes our citizens and our industries.
This "inspection regime" will prove to be a bad joke on us: Red China will merrily continue to evade it, and our manufacturers will be further caught in an ever-expanding regulatory nightmare, driving even more of them offshore.
Not me thanks, I don’t want to go back to the “good ole days”.
That was an experience but in the long run I did enjoy it but by the end I was also getting anxious to have to the conviencies back. The one thing I noticed is that you could actually see the stars at night in the sky with all the lights out.
.......Americans have accepted federally mandated low-flow showerheads .....
I drilled mine out to receive a better shower. Many other FReepers have done the same.
So far, no shower police have showed up
And Flea markets, second hand stores, Goodwill, ads in the local papers for kids bicycles etc. Everything that a 12 year old and under kid could come in contact with will be outlawed. We will all become instant criminals subject to fines and/or jail. The American citizen has become nothing more than a source of revenue for the fat-cat pig greedy politicians.
If I buy my 13 year old kid a book or an X-Box can my 12 year old son read it or play with the game? This law saws NO.
It is time for a revolution and we should ALL march down to D.C. and fire every one of our so-called representatives. Big Brother's day has come. The Americans will only be pushed so far before we revolt.
It obviously can't be done legislatively, since they ignore us. They have become our “rulers”. It's time to start making some real noise and defy these asinine laws.
I have done really well with boys coats though.
Stupid government edicts should be ignored. Until they send a SWAT team to strip our children, there’s the middle finger salute to any government demand that their idiocy be “respected”.
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