Yet they want to fund planned parenthood to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars to kill babies???

WTH???

I find it absolutely amazing that those of us born in the 50′s, and before, who slept in ancient cribs and played with toys painted with lead paint, managed to survive all these years. I didn’t have a helmet on when I rode my bike. I didn’t have knee pads when I skated on those skates that were made of metal and hooked on to my shoes (and I still have the scars to prove it!). When I was a baby, my grandmother put me in a cardboard box and sat me on the seat beside her when she drove around town. I don’t think I ever wore a seatbelt until the 80′s (my ’57 Chevy didn’t come equipped with those). WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE???!!! Oh, never mind…

The next Congress cannot arrive soon enough.

But this one goes out with DADT revoked and a terrible threat to forces fighting under horrendous situations.

Empty out a dresser drawer {antique drawers are deeper}, put in a bassinet sheet & mattress and let the baby sleep in there on the floor until they are old enough to get out of the drawer by themselves.

Then move them into a mattress on the floor w/ slide under the mattress side-rails. When they are 3 put the mattress up on the box-spring, frame. and be done w/ all government rules and regulations anyway. Save some dough and the Big Bro headache.

Keep the Feds out of my kid’s Bedroom!

I’ll not be party to buying new cribs made in China.
They’ll be found to have been painted w/ poison in a few years from now anyway

More from the article on Chicago Tribune website shows how many small business owners will get hit hard by this regulation:

Hotels and child-care centers, however, will have two years to replace their cribs. Without this longer phase-in period, the concern was that there wouldn’t be enough new cribs on the market to replace the number needed in child care centers. The extra time also gives centers time to budget for the costs of new cribs.

Now, Obama will claim that businesses will be able to write off the cribs in the first year with his small business tax rules, but write-offs only matter if you have money to spend and are making profits to offset. The feds just do not get it.

And, I am sure that Joe Biden will claim that this will generate or save many jobs in the furniture industry. What he will not tell you is that due to regulations and other economic factors, that industry has mostly left the USA and moved overseas.

PS: Thanks Erick and Merry Christmas.

We have not set an acceptable level of risk.

It is impossible to go through life with no risk, furthermore it is impossible to do anything, accomplish anything without some risk.

But the imperative of all government bureaucracy is to increase it’s power and scope to reach any and every portion of what might be connected to it’s mission.

Therefore we have environmental regulations that insist that air and water be restored to a condition cleaner than nature.

We have OSHA regulations that hamstring industry by setting myriad rules governing what was really one in a million type accidents.

And we have garbage like this. We may have to have some sort of overarching law requiring a strict cost-benefit probability analysis for every new regulation.

I am not changing out my kids crib,

and yes both my kids have slept in the same out of regulation crib that I slept in as a baby when visiting my parents.

If only the government cared this much about educating our kids.

35 deaths over 10 years, which the conveniently leave out, while a tragedy and extremely sad what other things that kill people in even greater numbers? Cars? How many people die each year in car crashes? Private planes? How many have died flying their private planes over the last 10 years? Football? Hockey? I can go on and on.

As someone wrote recently. We are quickly becoming a country of regulations, not laws by power hungry individuals.

These BONE-HEADS actually believe that they can legislate and Dictate ALL hazards from our lives.

We are becoming “Bubble People”, living in an imperfect world with the ultimate “Nanny” protecting ever aspect of our lives.

Wear a seat belt! Huh?! It doesn’t save anyone else but me!
Wear a Helmet! Huh?! It doesn’t save anyone else but me!
And So On.

The Gulf Oil Spill brought us the absolutely most insane statement from a President of the United States.
“We have to ensure that a problem like this NEVER happens again”
Huh?!
Does this King of Pinheads actually believe that he can avoid accidents?

In the words of “Buggs Bunny”:
“What a Maroon!”

They have to be stopped.
De-funding may be the only option.