Librarians are going through the Children's Books, to discard all the terrific pre-1985 books.
Posted on 02/21/2009 1:28:59 PM PST by shielagolden
YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK Motorsports industry blasted by new fed rule Tens of thousands of jobs at stake, activists worry Posted: February 20, 2009
Members of the motorsports industry are wondering why the government has adopted a rule virtually eliminating a key constituency – and possibly thousands of jobs – while at the same time developing a nearly trillion-dollar stimulus that supporters say is intended to create and protect employment.
At issue is a new federal regulation of lead that took effect just this month. The policy has virtually shut down the part of the motorsports industry that serves children under 12 who want to ride all-terrain vehicles and motorbikes, because some components of the machines – such as tire valve stems – contain lead.
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NASCAR types are not going to happy with this one. Wow! Now there is a march on Washington, eerr, I mean convoy to Washington. 250,000 pisked off hardcore NASCAR fanatics showing up on the White House lawn. (I’ll bring the BBQ and steaks) LOL
Of all the dangers to kids from riding motor bikes, eating the damn things is not even a faintly possible risk.
Liberals have absolutely no knowledge of the real world they seek to micro-manage and over-regulate. It is simple all about Power and Control.
This lead rule is just mo jobs for fatass Federal bureaucrats. I hear they are screwing up the business of reselling children’s clothing too
You might think our Congress is on drugs when they come up with such laws
This doesn’t apply to cars, but it’s not much of a stretch to see this rule applied to karts and quarter midgets.
Isn’t lead still used in engine bearings?
It soon will, watch.
Yup. There goes our hopes of another American-born F1 champ in the future...
Childrens books printed before 1985 are busy being discarded at our nations libraries.
Yeah, but do you know any kid patient enough to disassemble an engine just so he can eat the bearings? ;)
oh well, it’s “for the chilrun”...
Assume we’ll be banning pencils soon then.
I really don’t understand the appeal that Automobile racing, NASCAR or otherwise, has for people. No offense is intended with this. But I have better things to excited about, like my wife.
She's watching you as you type, isn't she?
What an absolute lunatic waste of money and intrusion on freedom.
How many children have been hurt by eating their children's book? I dare say none.
But it's their well meaning intentions that matter.
Think of the waste. Think of the neighborhood yardsales where people have been recycling all kinds of thing that now will have to be just thrown away.
Couldn't this be considered anti-green or something? That would make the liberal heads explode.
Liberal heads can’t explode, they are empty.
And those are the best books .....older ones are the better ones for kids before the PC crap was institutionalized
New lead rules may be toxic to thrift stores - CNN.com
The new rules ban lead content beyond minute levels of 600 parts per million in any product for ... The ban also applies to children's clothes and books. ...
www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/08/thrift.stores.lead/index.html - 78k - Cached - Similar pages
don’t all kids have a thing with their valve stems?
Librarians are going through the Children's Books, to discard all the terrific pre-1985 books.
Probably, as well as, nickel, cadmium, copper, zinc and a whole host of other metals which are useful but harmful (only if taken in extremely large quantities over a short period of time.)
Mercury now that is one I personally don’t like, just keeps melting on me, darn it!
Nanny Staters are such an annoyance!!
Life is too short to worry about everything! Enjoy it, we will all die of something someday.
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