National Bankruptcy Day is Near »
Posted By LibertyKnight 10 months ago in Political NewsCongress passed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, or HR 4040, a retroactive rule mandating that all items sold for use by children under 12 must be tested by an independent party for lead and phthalates, which are chemicals used to make plastics more pliable.
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greenmac10 months ago
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Now what is the right thing to do.... assume personal risk if a toy opr clothing causes harm.... we know if it did the cry would go out and lawsuits would fly. The public screamed for regulations against China when lead was found in various items.... the public is getting what it is asking for.
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rightfromwrong10 months ago
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the corporations and venture capitalists should assume the risk and be liable because it is they who went to China in search of greater profits for the shareholders who are already very rich anyway. In doing so they have put our children and the public at risk and also abandoned the American worker
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memestryker9 months, 3 weeks ago
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All "me, too" type messages are considered spam by the spam-sniffer software. The problem is that people who use sockpuppets use such messages to increase their statistics, and so now we can't do it at all. I ran a test last week to see if I could guess what would be spam, and it's pretty much any common phrase of agreement or short cliche'.
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Newperson10 months ago
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This has been referred to as National Bankruptcy Day. Resale shops will no longer be able to sell older toys (at a substantial discount), depriving the poor and middle class, once again, of the things they can afford.
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Don't seem fair to poor people
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MisterX10 months ago
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Yup, it's just another device to screw over people just trying to survive. It's funny how they are all-of-a-sudden so concerned about contents of children clothing and toys. Everybody I know my age grew up fine without these safeguards. Why aren't they concerned about all the GMO going on? They're allowing genetically-modified foods (livestock/milk/produce) onto our tables willie-nillie. I guess it depends on how they're going to get the money. If they were lobbied hard enough by the toy and textile industries, it probably wouldn't have been brought up.
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crespi10 months ago
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A friend of mine in the late 1970's had a job testing fat samples from auto fatalities (for randomness purposes) from all around the country.
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Every single human being tested had two substances present in their systems- DDT and pthalates... -
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earthlingerer10 months ago
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It's not that he gets it, it's more that he "has a pair", and doesn't mind telling everybody the truth to help them connect the dots.
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The guy IS a doctor, he does have to know how to tell a patient that he's dying, and no amount of medicine or treatment will help. We need more politicians who actually respect the rule of written law.
No more lighting incense so you can't smell the fire, or filling the potholes in the street with sand.
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dgoodii10 months ago
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Time to go back to appointed senators, state controls the senate then. That would slow the spread and extent of government regulation anf tampering with the freedoms we have and they have slowly removed in the guides of public good.
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