Shoot! Now I can't sell my Obama car seat.
Just like the real thing!
Posted on 08/31/2009 7:14:22 PM PDT by Crazieman
If you're planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you'd best beware: 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.
The initiative, which targets toys and other products for children, enforces a new provision that makes it a crime to resell anything that's been recalled by its manufacturer.
"Those who resell recalled children's products are not only breaking the law, they are putting children's lives at risk," said Inez Tenenbaum, the recently confirmed chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The crackdown affects sellers ranging from major thrift-store operators such as Goodwill and the Salvation Army to everyday Americans cleaning out their attics for yard sales, church bazaars or - increasingly - digital hawking on eBay, Craigslist and other Web sites.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Moderator, can you please take this off the banglist. It has nothing to do with Second Amendment Rights or firearms.
Thank you.
And after I get busted for my yard sale, IRS will audit me to see if I reported the $29.89 “profit” from my last sale.
The Feds want to be in control of every single aspect of our lives! For the children.
Going after Meg, uh...
Rifles and shotguns show up at yard sales, handguns more rarely.
But yeah, this is not banglist material.
I remember when Bush signed this into law last year - quite a few of us freepers were upset about it and wondering what Bush was doing, but a lot of people seemed to blow it off and think nothing of it.
When Jarts are outlawed, only outlaws will have Jarts
Putting children’s lives at stake?
Bull Obama.
Somebody tell me how the Federal government has jurisdiction over yard sales? Not exactly interstate commerce.
I think this is just targeted at toys not general merchandise.
Ah, that was one Wickard court decision ago.
Maybe the Feds will be so busy fingering used underwear they won’t notice our lightbulbs.
I hate to say it, but this bill was signed into law not by Obama, but by George W. Bush last year. This is another in a long list of bills Bush should of found his VETO pen.
Putting children’s lives at stake?
***Bull Obama.***
Now, you don’t want children exposed to the lead in the printing ink of the Golden Books you or your kids were raised with now do you? think about how all of us turned out being exposed to Lead, mercury and other nasties that didn’t worry our parents until the libs found something to go into panic mmode about.
Shoot! Now I can't sell my Obama car seat.
Just like the real thing!
Bush signed the law, Rats gave it dough.
It’s getting worse. Sometimes you can’t tell the banglist from the latest articles.
The Resale Roundup is being enforced under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, which Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law last year.
http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=22637
As much as I liked George W. Bush, this bill could of been killed by him.
It’s the cover-up-for-China-lousy-safety-practices law.
Kicked in last year for new items, this year for used.
Didn’t want to embarrass China by pushing the problem back on them. You know how touchy China can get.
I just wanted to be fair. This story has been posted a couple of times, and each time I read comments about the nerve of Obama taking away another privilege of ours, when in fact it was signed into law last year, with enough votes to get it to Bush's desk.
But it could of just as easy been passed this year as well.
Somebody tell me how the Federal government has jurisdiction over yard sales?
The air breathed by the customers while shopping crossed state lines at some point in history. So you see it’s just like our forefathers intended.
they are spending 100 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR on this idiocy.
One more stupid government intrusion endorsed by a ‘conservative’. Thanks but no thanks Republican Party.
How can you have a profit? Did you not purchase the stuff for more than you sold it for?
This seems to be an excellent opportunity to have “private” garage sales. That is, to create a community program so that only “members” who are not affiliated with the government, are allowed on the property to purchase sale goods. And any government employee or officer who shows up is trespassing.
Membership is free, but includes a sworn statement that you are not an employee, or are compensated by, affiliated with, or are willing to cooperate with, any effort involving an inspection of a garage sale.
You mean if I have a batch of secondhand Chinese Mattel toys with lead paint I can’t sell them to kids?! If I have a Graco playpen that was recalled just because it strangled some babies, I can’t put it in my garage sale?!
If you're violating a law, none of this is going to work for you or prostitutes would never be arrested.
the list, ping
First he made is hard to get used cars and now hard to get used toys and clothing. Isn’t this a little unfair to the poor who can’t buy new items?
Except your being on your own property. Unless whatever it is that the federal agent would want to inspect is identifiable from the sidewalk, they could typically use the excuse that this is an event open to the public. But a closed gathering is legally different. Just asking for the presentation of some token membership is more than enough to exclude anyone from your property.
It would be extremely difficult for them to get a probable cause warrant in such a case.
And remember, that the “inspectors” are searching for items banned for sale. Easy enough to exclude them from just those items. But think of the unreserved joy of telling them to leave your property, after having taken their picture.
bttt
It was allowed by bush, but yeah obama loves this stuff.
I remember when this was sort of a free country.
We will be worse than the Soviet Union ever was if we keep going at this rate. I give us 6 years.
Trolls adding noise to make our tools less effective?
If you warm your Jarts in your Suzy Homebaker oven, they become even deadlier!
Yes, and I’ll have to make that point during my audit. I’ll add in the cost of the Yard Sale Good Stuff signs, the gas to go around and post them, and so forth.
The point of my post was that once you get caught selling a toy with lead paint, you become open to other government intrusions.
Like zoning, resale permits, local sales tax, and for all I know ADA and EEOC. Like the recent stories of kids getting busted for selling lemonade without the proper paperwork and procedures.
What the heck ever happened to “Buyer Beware” are we so dumb as a culture now we need the government to stand over our shoulder when we purchase something?
I have to say it but this is Bush’s baby and this is exactly the sorta crap that “Compassionate conservatism” get you.
Wickard v Fillburn was the USSC
taking the pinhole in the Constitution called the “interstate commerce clause”,
ripping it open with both hands,
and walking on through it.
Well, it looks like we need another Amendment to the Constitution.
“What the heck ever happened to “Buyer Beware”
Well, I think Bush was wrong in signing the bill, but...how do you as a buyer detect lead paint in kid’s toys? Or find out if the object was banned a decade ago while it sat in storage? You can’t, not easily.
Which is 90% of the problem with the bill, neither can an outfit like Catholic Charities, Salvation Army, other such resale outlets, or a church rummage sale tell that some toy, manufactured eight years ago, is on some list or contains lead?
You know, I’ve been thinking about it, especially in light of the possible secession and reformation of the USA.
“If the Constitution just had more explicit language that activist judges couldn’t get around...”
But I don’t think it would matter. The Constitution, as written, said - Congress makes the laws, no other branch does. Congress can only make laws in these specific enumerated areas, and no others. Where the Constitution is silent as to the powers of Congress, the purview is at the state level.
And that bastards simply ignore the written word and look at the “emanations of the penumbra” and “foreign law”, etc, and rule as they think best instead of what it says.
I’m not certain as to the remedy for this, but, I think it’ll involve a “big reset”, and harsh treatment (immediate impeachment, removal from office) of anyone that starts walking down this path again.
“taking the pinhole in the Constitution called the “interstate commerce clause”, ripping it open with both hands,”
eww please no goatse references!
I seem to recall children's PJs and other clothing being a part of the bill when it was being debated.
Fast-Track - Congress pushed through the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act (”CSPIA”) which is causing the needless destruction of billions of dollars of goods and crippling whole industries. Outrage of the Day: Waxman Drags Feet on Needed CPSIA Reform
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208150/posts
An important and informative post. Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, he had an interview with the CPSC Chair, Nancy Nord. They are still working to find out the actual cost to jobs and money. Anyone who wants to listen can do so here. Move the curser around to find the interview. show 6 . Friday March 13, 2009
Nancy Nord, Scott Johnson, Jeffrey Goldberg With Hugh Hewitt
03130901 Hewitt: Hour 1 - An interview with the CPSC Chair, Nancy Nord on the UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES of the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act.
7 . Friday March 13, 2009
CPSC Chair Nancy Nord With Hugh Hewitt
Hugh interviews Ms. Nord about the devastating unintended consequences of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/TalkRadio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=5&ContentGuid=fb5b5906-2128-498e-8001-aa9a8d89eb52
This is what is going to cause the REAL trouble. Imagine having to get a lead-free certification for every toy? And it's not just paint. You would have to show that the plastic and other parts are lead free, too. This part will kill secondhand stores. This is the same stupid law that bans kid vehicles that have lead-acid batteries. Includes small motorbikes and ATVs. The kid might eat the battery, I guess.
Yes, another stupid mistake on Bush's part.
The problem is that this sort of behavior was a byproduct of the LBJ era of the “great society”. The problem has now integrated itself into the culture. In order to fix it we will be needing a new “Cultural Revolution” unlike the one from Chairman Mao, this revolution will need to start at home from the grass roots level and propagate through society for many years before the payoffs can be felt.
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