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.)

Sheesh.


Careful- a reasonable common-sense view like yours could get you booted
off the internet.

They could always put the Really Nasty stuff that is recalled in the
newspapers, with pictures. Oh, I forgot- nobody reads newspapers any
more. Maybe provide video/sound bites to local TV stations to use as
filler on slow days?

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aem sends...