One can point out that hundreds or thousands of businesses will be ended, and much income and enjoyment in life will end. They answer that it is monstrous to compare a child’s life to a bit of economic welfare for businesspeople.

The proper argument is that economic well-being is not separate from life, but also saves and improves lives. Business supports better autos, car maintenance, medical care, and the ability to by more expensive toys that don’t have lead attached. It is not lives versus dollars, but lives versus lives. The regulation that saves the life of one identifiable child acts to make people poorer, and so kills more than one anonymous child.

It’s unfortunate, but, as much as CPSIA has filled our OWN scope of vision, it does not appear that the outcry is truly widespread enough yet. Only when it becomes nothing other than absolutely DEAFENING, from one end of the nation to the other (not just from industry, libraries, etc. – but fromALL citizens / parents who put their money where their mouth is when it comes to caring about their voice being heard, authority being respected, etc.), ONLY then will it will be much harder for the games of party politics to continue to rule the day.

Plainly, I don’t know why we aren’t attacking the problem of our Congressional representatives failing to hear our will re: CPSIA in conjunction with the We Surround Them and Tea Party movements.. Seems to be an excellent fit! The We Surround Them groups across the nation aren’t about R vs L (see my current blog post at tristansepinion.blogspot.com) – they’re about WE the people taking political actions, simultaneously, to remind our “representatives” that we are not their slaves, but their masters.

In the case of CPSIA (as I put in one video on YouTube) are WE parents really going to ALLOW our Congress to replace “Mother Approved” with “Big Brother Approved?”

There is a great and growing movement of solidarity that has nothing to do with feeding partisan political games and everything to do with supporting our authority to govern by our will and good common sense. People are surely entitled to pull in any direction they wish, but I believe it’s definitely time for all who want to see the utterly poorly written law of CPSIA repealed to find a way to capitalize on this actively growing momentum.

We really don’t need such an enormous Big Brother dictating “what’s best for OUR children”…UNLESS, of course, we truly have become “We the Sheeple.”

Thanks for your updates – they’re right on target!

Kind Regards,
Tristan Benz

I have been a Democrat all my life. I would like to continue to be one. But if the Democrats in Congress continue their stance on the CPSIA I will feel forced to register as a Republican.

Passing the law was unfortunate.

Continuing to stand behind it is untenable.

Refusing to even talk about it is utterly unacceptable.

If the Democrats in Congress are not willing to face the American people on this then they are not leading us, they are herding us. We are not cattle! If they continue to make us feel as if we are I do not believe I will be the only Democrat lost.

The problem with the CPSIA is that it is so broad that the real issues of lead are buried under a mountain of collateral damage.