Monday, September 28, 2009

Feds Target Yard Sales

Thinking of having a fall yard sale to clean out some of the clutter from your house? Be careful, or it could get you in trouble with the Feds, and cost you up to $15 million in fines.
NO, that was not a joke!! The Consumer Product Safety Commission has launched a new enforcement campaign, which it calls “Resale Round-up", ” targeting the resale of potentially harmful children’s toys and other consumer products. Potential violators, the CPSC warns, include “thrift stores, consignment stores, charities, and individuals holding yard sales and flea markets.” Even e-bay sales are at risk.
Are you kidding me???? What horses ass came up with this cleaver bit of rights destroying legislation?? I think it is high time for a good ol fashion stoning in the public square.
I cannot believe that these power hungry morons who the people elected and who work for the people are now turning on them like a pack of rabid wolves. Does it make any sense to target the millions of Americans who re-sell items from their own home each year? Listen to this: Do you have books to sell? OK, says CPSC, as as long as they aren’t printed after 1985 and have a metal spiral binding (which may contain lead paint). Old clothing? Not OK if it has rhinestones or vinyl plastic snaps. Not sure if a toy has lead in it? The CPSC has a booklet that happily explains that it “would make sense to test” for lead, suggesting: “You may want to hire a qualified, trained person in your area who can quickly screen all of your suspect products with a handheld device called an X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) machine.” Or, presumably, you can do it yourself if you have a spare XRF machine in your basement.
No word on how CPSC will be enforcing these rules. Will there be yard sale police going from cul-de-sac to cul-de-sac on weekends? Hotlines to report neighbors peddling black market Thomas the Tank Engine trains? I don't know about you, but I am sick to death of these jackasses who live in Washington and think that they were appointed as God when they got elected. Damn the politicians, full speed ahead!!

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