Question: What kind of government drives its own citizens to poverty on purpose?
Answer: A depraved government, devoid of reason.
A government run by Obama and the democrat party of Eco-terrorists and tyrants are more like the USSR than the USA.
Dissolve the EPA.
Forget lawyers. The EPA should be the first ones against the wall when the Revolution comes.
What is Required?
Before ratification of a contract for housing sale or lease, sellers and landlords must:
•Give an EPA-approved information pamphlet on identifying and controlling lead-based paint hazards (”Protect Your Family From Lead In Your Home” pamphlet, currently available in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, Arabic and Somali).
•Disclose any known information concerning lead-based paint or lead-based paint hazards. The seller or landlord must also disclose information such as the location of the lead-based paint and/or lead-based paint hazards, and the condition of the painted surfaces.
•Provide any records and reports on lead-based paint and/or lead-based paint hazards which are available to the seller or landlord (for multi-unit buildings, this requirement includes records and reports concerning common areas and other units, when such information was obtained as a result of a building-wide evaluation).
•Include an attachment to the contract or lease (or language inserted in the lease itself) which includes a Lead Warning Statement and confirms that the seller or landlord has complied with all notification requirements. This attachment is to be provided in the same language used in the rest of the contract. Sellers or landlords, and agents, as well as homebuyers or tenants, must sign and date the attachment.
•Sellers must provide homebuyers a 10-day period to conduct a paint inspection or risk assessment for lead-based paint or lead-based paint hazards. Parties may mutually agree, in writing, to lengthen or shorten the time period for inspection. Homebuyers may waive this inspection opportunity.
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/healthy_homes/enforcement/disclosure
God has reserved a special place for those who work for the EPA.
How can the government compel certain speech?
One could make the argument that it is illegal to defraud you tenants by failing to disclose a known hazard, such as lead paint. But how does one go from a duty do disclose to a requirement that an citizen must provide a certain pamphlet at a certain time? Shouldn’t he have the right to disclose the hazard in any manner he sees fit, and if he fails to do so adequately be subject to a tort?
And if the landlord hands over the pamphlet and says, “I have to give these pamphlets to everybody, but don’t worry about it, because all of our paint is safe”, has he met the requirements?
And what if a building was built prior to 1978, but it does not contain any lead paint? What is the point of handing out a pamphlet in that case? Back in the early 70s, people knew the hazards of lead-based paint, and many builders were careful not to use them. But these buildings get tarred with the broad brush simply because of the year they were built?
Does ANYONE know anyone who has suffered from lead paint? I’ve been around it most of my life and cannot find anyone who has been sickened by it, including the steel plant workers that sprayed red lead on many of their products for marine use.
BFL
Congress can stop this fascist tyranny anytime but refuses to do so. The Nazis at EPA committed sedition in the Rapanos v US incident. Congress wouldn’t even hold hearings.
There’s a mile long trail of documents and illegal actions proving the EPA’s treason.
If only there had been a candidate who wanted to eliminate the EPA. Oh well, I’m sure Romney will rein in the abuses.
The Chicago mob is desperate for cash, so these extortionists will hit any business that hasn’t filed for bankruptcy under their disastrous leadership. You gotta pay protection or they’ll sic the IRS on you.
Instead of fining them, the EPA should give them a grace period to hand out the pamphlets. These huge fines are ridiculous.
1. Do not rent to people who have young children.
2. If you have renters who have young children, do not renew the lease
3. Do not rent to people who you suspect would use this law to try to get some kind of compensation from you or who would hire an ambulance chaser lawyer.
Profile, profile, profile.
Bump
Look at the label on your Christmas lights. It says "wash your hands"..."wires contain LEAD".
EPA is but one of the Federal “poster children” of “Mission Creep”. When this Agency was first authorized (1970 under R.Nixon), there was ample reasons for its creation. Now, the air and water are emphatically cleaner but all of those bureaucrats still need work and so smaller and smaller items of dispute become magnified.
Same things with “Endangered Species Act” and “Navigable Waters Act”. These are well-intentioned laws to meet perceived public needs, but we all need to remember what path is paved with “good intentions”! Every bureaucracy functions like a living organism, it either grows or dies. Are there any statues of government employees who did away with their own job(s)?
The best man at our wedding and his wife bought a three family house in New Haven, Connecticut in the early 1990’s because they weren’t from the area because the wife was getting her PhD at Yale and the real estate agent convinced them that the area was undergoing a “revival”. (Yeah, but only the area 4 blocks closer to the shore.
Brian was very good at fixing things up and turned this old home into a masterpiece. He put in inlay tile, added al kinds of architectural features, the house was gorgeous. He and his wife rented the first floor to a single mom with a few kids. Youngest kid was known for eating anything, especially the dirt in the yard.
Anyway, the single mom’s dirt eating kid ends up with a really high level of lead in his blood. because the single mom got state aid, the state came in and went through the house from top to bottom. They found lead paint on one (1) window sill. This meant that they could sue Brian for big bucks!!
Moral of the story - never rent to anyone on the dole
Don’t SIGN anything and go for a jury trial over this crap...
Somewhere along the way, most people sign their name to something that entangles them in the administrative rather than legal side of this type of crap...
Don’t SIGN anything and go for a jury trial over this crap...
Somewhere along the way, most people sign their name to something that entangles them in the administrative rather than legal side of this type of crap...
From Atlas Shrugged:
Continues bureaucrat Ferris: “Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against . . . We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted [Frederick Mann: Obfuscation of meaning is a key element of the con games bureaucrats and politicians play.] - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Rearden, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
If anybody knows a delegate to the RNC, they could raise a ruckus with 2,500 stamped postcards. On each would be a list of government agencies, and by what percent delegates think that each of their budgets should be reduced.
_EPA
_DOJ
_ENERGY
_EDUCATION
_HUD
_HHS
_TREASURY
_INTERIOR
_AGRICULTURE
_COMMERCE
_LABOR
_TRANSPORTATION
_HOMELAND SECURITY
_FDA
_USDA
_NOAA
_INTERIOR
_CORP FOR NATL AND COMM SERVICE
The lead-based-paint racket has had a long life. Cost a lot of money. Initiated a lot of regulations and fines. This all started when it was noticed that SOME inner-city children had difficulty learning in public schools. The education community decided these children had difficulty learning, because they had all been chewing on window sills that were painted with lead-based paint.
I ask you, how many children have you ever seen chewing on a window sill? This whole thing is a hoax - just like the global warming bull.