Shoot! Now I can't sell my Obama car seat.
Just like the real thing!
Posted on 08/31/2009 7:14:22 PM PDT by Crazieman
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.
"Those who resell recalled children's products are not only breaking the law, they are putting children's lives at risk," said Inez Tenenbaum, the recently confirmed chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The crackdown affects sellers ranging from major thrift-store operators such as Goodwill and the Salvation Army to everyday Americans cleaning out their attics for yard sales, church bazaars or - increasingly - digital hawking on eBay, Craigslist and other Web sites.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Moderator, can you please take this off the banglist. It has nothing to do with Second Amendment Rights or firearms.
Thank you.
And after I get busted for my yard sale, IRS will audit me to see if I reported the $29.89 “profit” from my last sale.
The Feds want to be in control of every single aspect of our lives! For the children.
Going after Meg, uh...
Rifles and shotguns show up at yard sales, handguns more rarely.
But yeah, this is not banglist material.
I remember when Bush signed this into law last year - quite a few of us freepers were upset about it and wondering what Bush was doing, but a lot of people seemed to blow it off and think nothing of it.
When Jarts are outlawed, only outlaws will have Jarts
Putting children’s lives at stake?
Bull Obama.
Somebody tell me how the Federal government has jurisdiction over yard sales? Not exactly interstate commerce.
I think this is just targeted at toys not general merchandise.
Ah, that was one Wickard court decision ago.
Maybe the Feds will be so busy fingering used underwear they won’t notice our lightbulbs.
I hate to say it, but this bill was signed into law not by Obama, but by George W. Bush last year. This is another in a long list of bills Bush should of found his VETO pen.
Putting children’s lives at stake?
***Bull Obama.***
Now, you don’t want children exposed to the lead in the printing ink of the Golden Books you or your kids were raised with now do you? think about how all of us turned out being exposed to Lead, mercury and other nasties that didn’t worry our parents until the libs found something to go into panic mmode about.
Shoot! Now I can't sell my Obama car seat.
Just like the real thing!
Bush signed the law, Rats gave it dough.
It’s getting worse. Sometimes you can’t tell the banglist from the latest articles.
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.
http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=22637
As much as I liked George W. Bush, this bill could of been killed by him.
It’s the cover-up-for-China-lousy-safety-practices law.
Kicked in last year for new items, this year for used.
Didn’t want to embarrass China by pushing the problem back on them. You know how touchy China can get.
I just wanted to be fair. This story has been posted a couple of times, and each time I read comments about the nerve of Obama taking away another privilege of ours, when in fact it was signed into law last year, with enough votes to get it to Bush's desk.
But it could of just as easy been passed this year as well.
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