[Megben]

My youngest is almost out of children's clothes. This would have killed the family budget if it had gone into effect sooner. In this economy, I don't see how families can afford this. The cost of the lead testing will be passed on to us making the clothes that much more expensive.

This is one of my first posts here, but I felt it was worth pointing out. If anyone knows how to put the links in, please do.

[SandRat]

Question: As a Baby Boomer; “How the he** did we survive childhood without this legislation?”

Question: As a Baby Boomer that has adult children; “How the he** did they survive childhood with a 3 year tour in the FRG and a 2 year tour in USFK without this legislation?”

Answer: As a Healthy 60 year old Baby Boomer; “The Stinking act is not fracking needed. Repeal it ASAP!”

[angkor]

Americans have accepted federally mandated low-flow showerheads and 1.6 gallon toilet tanks.

Why shouldn’t they accept bans on second-hand children’s clothing?

[Yorlik803]

This is a way to make people spend more money, thus keeping China and other turd world hell holes employed.

[Oratam]

Look for the union label
When you are buying a coat, dress or blouse.
Remember somewhere our union's sewing
our wages going to feed the kids and run the house,
We work hard but who's complaining.
Thanks to the I.L.G. we're paying our way.
So, always look for the union label,
it says we're able
to make it in the U.S.A.

[DJ Taylor]

"second hand children's clothes illegal?"

Well, better late than never. Anyone who has a big brother, as I do, knows how much we hated wearing our big brother's hand-me-downs.

[MamaTexan]

The end-run around this concerning second-hand items is relatively simple, just mark them with the following disclaimer:

Not intended for use by children under 12

The 'law' doesn't say actually used, just intended for use.

[TornadoAlley3]

Is this only for “sold” clothing, what about clothes donated to Salvation Army?

[4yearlurker]

I’m sure this legislation was passed “for the children.”

[KeatsforFirstDog]

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 :(

[autumnraine]

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.

[MarkT]

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.

[rangeryder]

"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."

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.

[snowsislander]

Factories are shut here in the U.S. and shipped wholesale to a vicious totalitarian state. We massively import goods from that totalitarian state, one with no respect for the life or liberty of its subjects, and surprisingly enough, it turns out to have no respect for the lives of our citizens either, and we end up receiving lots of cheap and occasionally poisonous goods.

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.

[Thumper1960]

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”.

[RGSpincich]

http://www.cpsc.gov/library/foia/advisory/320.pdf

Read the letter at the above link and you will be relieved to know that the ban only applies to clothing manufactured after the effective date.

[AuntB]

Ugh...if these brainiacs ‘fix’ anything else, there’ll be nothing left!

[metmom]

Hope I got the right people.

It’s a surviving socialism and libertarian ping

[LibertyRocks]

Looks like with my husband’s next paycheck I’ll have to do some serious shopping... We’ve got four children, and the ONLY way I can afford to keep them clothed well with our budget is thrift shops...

This is so absolutely, and incredibly stupid I can’t even come up with an appropriate response...

Honestly, I don’t know what the hell I’m going to do now... We certainly cannot afford to buy brand-new clothes off the racks in dept. stores and such.

I will trust that with the Lord at our side our family will find a way to deal with this setback. Looks like I may have to use my sewing machine a LOT more than I do already... And, I’ll have to brush up on my pattern skills or something. Thank God my mother taught me how to sew!

[aberaussie]

bttt

[mware]

Heck I shop at Goodwill Stores all the time.

I just got a almost new London Fog raincoat It happen to have a red tag on it so it went at half price. I paid $2.50 for it.Then took it to the Dry Clearner for cleaning although it looked as good as new, for $10.

Earlier this winter I got a woolen London Fog for $8.00