David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 8/22/2009 4:16 AM EJ Willson spake thus:

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.

Oh, puleez. Give me a ****ing break.

Leaving aside that this was just more red-meat troll-bait thrown out
by our resident Texas redneck-with-an-education, the whole premise
that this is yet more evidence that the "gubmint" is run amok with
untrammeled, insane raw power is just ludicrous.

The subject line of this thread, as well as the insinuation in the
article, that somehow this means that the Feds are actually gonna go
after folks selling stuff at yard sales is just plain wrong. If you go
back and re-read the article, you'll see that the point here is that
the government *does* intend to make an effort to keep recalled and
banned items from being resold *at secondhand stores* and the like.
And as the quote from the Goodwill official indicates, at least some
of those stores seem not to have a problem with this, unlike the
AM-talk-radio get-the-gubmint-off-my-back types here.

And why shouldn't they go after this stuff? What's the point of
recalling and banning toxic and dangerous ****, like Chinese toys
containing lead and other poisons, if the leftover residue is just
going to stay in circulation in resale stores? One wonders what the
"half-life" of such merchandise is, all the while threatening *your
childrens'* health and safety. (If you don't care about your
childrens' health and safety, then that really is your problem, I
guess.)

Your "resident troll" took the subject from the headline on the article
"Seller, bewa Feds cracking down on garage sales"

Here's just one example of the Draconian regulations: All books published
before 1986 are PRESUMED to contain lead. This means that ALL children's
books published more than twenty years ago: a) Have to be removed from
library shelves, and b) either destroyed or tested for lead. Inasmuch as
lead testing for a single book is expensive, the only option is the first.

Oh, yeah, the books cannot be sold.

And I'm glad you agree when you said: "If you don't care about your
childrens' health and safety, then that really is your problem, I guess."

I take that to mean it's none of the government's business.