Comments on: An Oregon crafter on CPSIA

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:12:21 +0000

GregS: The problem is that a lot of these small manufacturers don’t sell their products directly to consumers; they sell through big distributors, and those distributors are very easy targets for regulators.

By: GregS

GregS — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:11:07 +0000

In most other countries, there is a way to outsmart a Catch-22: you ignore the regulations and if some official catches you on it, you bribe him. It’s corrupt, but that’s what it takes to make a statist system work. At present, if you tried this in America you’d get arrested, but as America continues to adopt statism as the new American way, it will eventually catch up with the rest of the world in the practice of corruption and bribery as well.

By: Sarah Natividad

Sarah Natividad — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:02:57 +0000

My favorite is always when they express eternal optimism that we businesspeople are just so creative that we’ll figure out a way to comply with CPSIA and stay in business. I don’t know anyone who can outsmart a Catch-22 without simply refusing to play the game.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:14:14 +0000

Well, don’t forget the nannies know best.