John Stossel and The Washington Times published biting indictments of the ridiculous CPSIA today. The title of the WT article says it all: "Lead in the Head". You betcha.
Hey, did anyone notice the tracking labels guidance today? I didn't. So we wasted yet another day while secret deliberations were conducted by the CPSC Commission about the future of our businesses. Welcome to outcast status.
As noted, the vote on the super-secret guidance is set for Monday, July 20th, leaving a pathetically meager 24 days for integration of this dramatic requirement into our businesses before tracking labels become law. Hope you weren't planning a summer vacation this year! Who on Earth would go away for two weeks in the middle of this artificial crisis with such urgent work to do? As I have mentioned, a failure to follow these rules TO THE LETTER would constitute a knowing, intentional violation of the CPSIA - uh-oh, a felony and that means possibly rooming with Mr. Madoff! The tracking labels guidance will create winners and losers, and is guaranteed to create instantaneous chaos in the marketplace. A vacation would be utterly irresponsible in the middle of all this, wouldn't it? I imagine the CPSC and the Commissioners in particular must really feel our pain - the summer only comes along once a year, the kids are out of school and it's the annual great opportunity to be together as a family - but because of the late arrival of tracking labels guidance and the failure of the Commission to grant a stay, I guess we are all supposed to stop living to avoid going to the pokey. Something's not right with this picture. It feels somehow . . . open, transparent and collaborative.
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