tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811142208729284263.post3606709699908861610..comments2023-10-16T04:34:45.322-05:00Comments on CPSIA - Comments & Observations: CPSIA - National Bankruptcy Day ReduxRick Woldenberg, Chairman - Learning Resources Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10399747363670184131noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811142208729284263.post-5901096697426605792009-02-06T21:58:00.000-06:002009-02-06T21:58:00.000-06:00Thank you so much for these excellent posts and al...Thank you so much for these excellent posts and all the thoughtful hard work you've done on behalf of those of us who care about kids and realize that this well-intentioned but flawed law will do them more harm than good. <BR/><BR/>It's also ironic that all the money that will be spent testing items that have never posed a threat will not instead be expended combatting what we know to be the two biggest sources of lead poisoning in children - lead paint in old homes and lead in soil. <BR/><BR/>Now how do we get the NYT and other major media outlets to understand how serious- and imminent - this crisis is and give it some prominent coverage?Carol Baicker-McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07190497340312463771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811142208729284263.post-42058742518395588762009-02-06T14:13:00.000-06:002009-02-06T14:13:00.000-06:00Rick,All I can do is cut and paste what I wrote in...Rick,<BR/><BR/>All I can do is cut and paste what I wrote in Walter Olson's blog post and NPR's post today - and I'll link to yours, too, from my blog...<BR/><BR/>"I caught the NPR piece [New Safety Law May Crimp Market For Used Toys] this AM - when I was in journalism school, we were taught to go for the "REAL STORY" - be uncompromising, challenging, tough, even willing to go to jail on behalf of getting at the truth. Why is our media completely ignoring the TRUTH and failing to DIG - to ask real sources - real citizens and parents a few questions? <BR/><BR/>The story isn't just about retailers - it's about life in America - how we run (or don't) our government, our core freedoms and rights, as citizens. <BR/><BR/>The IDEA that anyone (as mentioned by interviewee in the NPR piece) in America would be okay with "resigning" to the reality of shopping a Black Market in this country is SHOCKING. What does this say about our sense of power, as citizens? I'm sorry - but this is a concept born of necessity in places where dictators and communism are the rule of the land - NOT in AMERICA. <BR/><BR/>THIS is not the America my grandparents came over on a boat to experience and build. THIS is not the America I want for MY children. I am stunned at how far removed we citizens are from running the government - and how little concerned that seems to make us.<BR/><BR/>I can't help thinking about the Great Depression - how the 'choices' in reacting to the crisis only made things worse. This "choice" of CPSIA made and suppored by special interests and politicians (not WE the people) is going to boomerang, hitting us ALL between the eyes, and hard. It's not enough that we lost another 600,000 jobs this last month alone... <BR/><BR/>Still, we do NOT see the masses in the streets in one, great outcry. We do not see anything but citizens as hapless passengers on a ride to their own demise. I'm stunned.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps our tactics of contacting politicians are wasted - perhaps it's time for everyone to contact reporters, nonstop, at the NY Times..."<BR/><BR/>Like I said in your other post about Blame Game... what I see is a nation of stunned cattle, headed for slaughter.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for these brilliant letters.<BR/>Tristan Benz<BR/>Maiden AmericaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811142208729284263.post-49432860667831330212009-02-06T12:56:00.000-06:002009-02-06T12:56:00.000-06:00I am trying to figure out how it could possibly be...I am trying to figure out how it could possibly be that there are no comments on this yet...and all I can think is: no one knows WHAT to say.<BR/><BR/>It's gotten so huge and so absurd, those of us who are affected and painfully aware of it just sag to hear the next development.<BR/><BR/>The past week, as predicted, was lost to self-congratulation and misinformation about "misinformation..."<BR/>After the stay, I slumped with frustration when I saw some of the small business/handmade sites start with the glad tidings posts, with titles like "IT'S OVER!"<BR/><BR/>It must be excruciating, not to say "I told you so" more than you have every right to, Rick. The Kindergarten teacher in me is squirming, still trying to catch more ears with honey (or at least irony) than with every single thing I want to say now.<BR/><BR/>WAKE UP, LEMMINGS! (oops--did I say that out loud?)<BR/><BR/>How can it BE that this is happening?--WHY is Congress holding onto this law, digging in, when it's so clearly a wreck-in-progress? <BR/>And we're watching it in slo-mo (actually, it's feeling like fast-mo right about now) while seemingly bright, reasonable people all around us say "that can't happen, that's far too ridiculous!" or "Don't worry! They can't do that!" <BR/>Even I, the cynic, kept hoping I'd be proven wrong at the last minute, but I fear it's really come to having to pull out the Emerson:<BR/>"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."The Happy Tomatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04650661397124917847noreply@blogger.com