Not that they meant to, of course. Or that the Consumer Protection Safety Improvement Act was meant to destroy thrift stores nationwide.
Or that they meant to fill up the landfills with stuff that people couldn’t afford to test. Or that they meant to make it more expensive for lower class families to buy clothing for their children in the middle of an economic collapse. Or that they meant to destroy the revenue stream of charities across the country… no. They meant well.
I forget who said that the preceding sentence is possibly the worst insult that one can offer in the English language.
Moe Lane
PS: Bipartisan sloppiness, Democratic ultimate responsibility. It was Nancy Pelosi’s and Harry Reid’s job to create a bill that wouldn’t target private craftsmen and your local hospital thrift store; they failed. We don’t run Congress any more, remember?
Steve Maley
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kat (Diary) Wednesday, January 7th at 8:06PM EST (link)As someone with a small crafting business as as second income, this could destroy a large part of my business. I sew handmade toys for children, as well as handmade made to order clothing for kids. I cannot afford the testing costs and know many crafters lamenting this legislation. This could destroy our businesses. At a time when we are just starting to remember the importance of handmade goods for our children, along comes this Dem craziness…
“Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” Thomas Jefferson
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It's for the children
10ksnooker (Diary) Wednesday, January 7th at 8:10PM EST (link)Don’t you know. And putting those thrifts and the charities that run them, it’s for the unions don’t you know.
Democrats, we’re for intending unintended consequences.
Advocating for access to subprime loans, protecting poor kids against fire
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Wednesday, January 7th at 8:11PM EST (link)With “friends” like that, the poor don’t need enemies
Do we need to March on Washington DC in Janurary to help stop Peloski?
bobojake (Diary) Wednesday, January 7th at 8:14PM EST (link)Just a simple question but somehow we have to call her office every day if you can get through before the leave a message line fills up. I can’t believe her own constituents in San Franciso like this ido bill as many home made crafts as you see there.
Its time to unite fellow Americans to stop the Reid-Peloski machine now.
Do we need to March on Washington DC in Janurary to help stop Peloski?
bobojake (Diary) Wednesday, January 7th at 8:14PM EST (link)Just a simple question but somehow we have to call her office every day if you can get through before the leave a message line fills up. I can’t believe her own constituents in San Franciso like this ido bill as many home made crafts as you see there.
Its time to unite fellow Americans to stop the Reid-Peloski machine now.
January 20th 2010. A year to the day..............
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Wednesday, January 7th at 9:45PM EST (link)A family of four from San Francisco is on vacation, driving across The North-Central-South Union in their Venezuelan-built hybrid-and-bio-fuel sub-mini-three-wheel-compact.
They see a sign advertising “Museum ahead, the last of an original place of it’s kind” and decide to have a look at the place. It’s the only ‘mom & pop’, ‘brick and mortar’ operation left on the continent and it’s located on the deep woods of what used to be Western South Dakota.
After parking and releasing the required 10-point safety harness holding the kids in their self-surround hard-shell cocoon seats, they get out of the car, walk through the parking area towards the store and one of the kids notices right away that the mandated two sets of five-section recycling bins are not at the front door of the establishment. The toddler makes a note of that on his I-Phone.
The husband says something to the effect of ‘I remember when there were shops like this all over the place” and walks up the three steps to the front entrance.
The other child makes a note on her I-Phone that the disabled-person access ramp seems to be visibly 5 nano-microns too short on the height-to-length ratio and the ramp itself is not currently lighted (even though it’s a sunny day with no cloud cover).
They walk in and the other husband looks around the museum and is instantly visibly shaken……”Oh my, they have illegal merchandise here !”, he says, causing the rest of the family to look where he’s pointing, directly at (gasp !) an out-of-reach, behind-the-counter, locked-in-a-cage, small display of (oh no) American Flags and a map of The United States Of America. There is a large sign over the display cage stating “The enclosed items are not for sale. Remember, this is not a store, it is a museum.”
Walking around the shop, the children are seeing things for the first time in their lives and the husbands are trying diligently to explain what the items are.
One husband says to his daughter, “Moonbeam, these things are from a bygone era, when lawlessness ran rampant throughout what was a horrible land, the same place you’re learning about now in first grade at your school, The Anointed Patron Saint Gore Elementary. What you’re seeing are illegal items, especially the books and photographs, but for some reason the world court allows places like this to exist. Let’s take a walk through some more.”
The other husband is with their son and they see some highly secured display cases inside a sectioned-off room saying it’s an Original American Artifacts Museum and asks, “Daddy, what’s all that ?” He says to the kid, “Let’s go take a look, Pat” and as soon as he sees what’s contained in thee first case, the man screams “GUNS ! OH NO, THEY HAVE GUNS HERE !! Then he calms down after seeing the large sign proclaiming that the two rusted and visibly bent firearms in the case are 100-plus-year-old inoperable antiques and cannot work anyway because the internal biometric computers in the grips are matched to only one person on the planet and that person is at the world government office in Paris. The firearms will also not work because there are no firing pins in them, as mandated throughout the North-Central-South Union to help protect the children.
As the pair tour the museum section further, the child sees items and keeps asking questions like, “Daddy, what does this paper mean here….. it ends with ‘one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all’ – I don’t understand.” The father says, “Pat, you’re too young to understand, so it’s ok. Just remember your lessons from school about how The Blessed Obama saved the country last year by assuring everybody that even though nobody has any guns anymore, the new inner-city murder rate of 1,500 firearm deaths per 5,000 population will come down soon.
…..and then the husbands hear it…….. it sounds out of place……… what could it be ? It’s a voice, but it sounds bad…. no fidelity at all. Oh no, it’s an AM radio and what’s this ?!? …..it’s switched on and tuned to the illegal underground talk radio network. They soon realize that they are hearing that hate-filled maniac Glenn Beck and his live daily in-tears recital of The Declaration Of Independence, The Constitution and Bill Of Rights of the former United States Of America.
The husbands grab the kids and run out of the museum screaming in agony, lest the children be corrupted by evil. In the background they hear the museum proprietor laugh and say loudly, “Have a nice day and y’all come back now, ya hear ?”
should be a stand alone diary
Andy W. Thursday, January 8th at 9:02AM EST (link)Nicely done
Keep up the good work Sam Graves (R, MO-6)