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on Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:13:24 PM
Well, here goes. I'll use my maiden voyage experience in blogging (I have no idea what I'm doing. Is there some blogging book for dummies?) to help make known something I just learned about 2 days ago. Perhaps not relevant to this venue, but I felt it an urgent situation. It's the CPSIA bill passed by Congress that's, as I write, putting people out of business. You can learn more on the NARTS (National Association of Resale and Thrift Shops) site. Congress, in their "infinite wisdom" has, once again, thrown the baby out with the bath water. I don't know whose brain trust it was, but it will apparently make illegal, after 2-9-09, the resale of children's items that have not been tested (or perhaps retested, I haven't read the bill yet) for lead content. As I understand, it would even affect yard sales, etc. It appears Congress would rather defer to China and allow this harmful stuff to enter our country, making us deal with it and penalizing us for this stuff being here, rather than putting the burden on the Chinese and prohibiting this stuff from entering the country to begin with. I guess Most Favored Nation Trade Status and certain politicians in your pocket who profit from it all has its perks! There's a very nice lady who owns a children's consignment store in California who is rapidly liquidating her stock to be out of business by the 9th to be in compliance. This is a needless tragedy, (yet one more blow to a gasping economy in the shadow of socialism) I'm sure affecting businesses all over the U.S. It should not have been. I have contacted my senators, I hope more people do as well and maybe they will act before it's too late.