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Default Feds going after garage sales

EJ Willson wrote:
wrote:
On Aug 21, 10:49 pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
"[WASHINGTON] If you're planning a garage sale or organizing a church
bazaar, you'd best bewa 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. "

"... a spokesman for the agency, said it wouldn't be dispatching
bureaucratic storm troopers into private homes to see whether people
were
selling recalled products from their garages, yards or churches."

Remember, though, it's not against the law for the government to lie
to us.

It's for the children.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/74102.html

Yeah, You cat't do nothing anymore.


Another example of a government agency without enough to do. They create
problems out of situations where no problem exists in order to justify
their existence.

EJ in NJ


"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."