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Wall Street Journal: Pelosi’s Library Quarantine
March 30, 2009 by Dana
Filed under In the News
A top story in the “Opinion” section of the Wall Street Journal online tackles the CPSIA and its impact on libraries. An excerpt is below:
It looks like “Jumanji” in local libraries these days, after the classic children’s book about chaos unleashed by the failure to heed warnings. In February, an overzealous law governing lead in products resulted in toys going from store shelves to the trash heap. Now, confusion over how the rules affect children’s books has led some libraries to rope off kids’ sections.
Last summer, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) interpreted the 2008 law to include children’s books, though exactly what that means is anyone’s guess. CPSC spokesman Scott Wolfson told the Associated Press that until the agency can give clearer guidance, especially on books published before 1986, public and school libraries “should take steps to ensure that the children aren’t accessing those books.” The agency hurried to say it didn’t mean to tell libraries to toss the books, but that it is “investigating” whether there are unsafe lead levels.
You can read the entire article here.
Business as usual for congress, they don’t react until something blows up and then go over top with too many nonsense laws that 1) are not thought out completely to the end result, 2) most likely, not even read completely through.(ie.,the stimulus package!), 3) that will cost a fortune to enforce (when they cannot enforce the ones they already have in place!)
When, oh, when are the American people going to demand intelligent representation and vote all of these special interest(especially their own) politicians out! They will continue this behavior as long as they keep getting elected. Wouldn’t it send a message, if every one of them was replaced at re-election time. Instead, we scramble to protect our livelihoods and creative activities from our own government!
We don’t need more laws, we need to have the ones on the books enforced!!!
This is the worst bunch of bureaucrats we have had in a long, long time.
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