[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Why not inform the consumer, hmmm? Why tell people 'this is the law' when you can simply inform? Congress could issue a press release and encourage consumers as they see fit. Instead, they make their demands. People didn't even need congress to tell them for goodness sake. Who buys a mercury thermometer anymore? What store sells one? You could even call for a boycott of stores, for goodness sake.

I am SICK of living in a nanny state that locks up people because their child has a sunburn, runs people off of parking lots for doing jumping jacks, and tells people 'You CAN'T buy this.'

[UCANSEE2]

The whole thing is about covering up for mercury pollution caused by commercial manufacturing. It is not about pollution from discarded thermometers. By passing an ACT against the thermometers, the greenies are satisfied, the public thinks the gov't is doing something about it, and the companies which actually are responsible for toxic mercury compounds going into the groundwater are allowed to keep doing so without fines/levies/complicated+expensive filtering processes etc. They can therefore keep paying bribes and campaign contributions to Politicians.