Lead kills
It also kills the brain cells of our politicians:
the Senate of the United States voted 58 to 39 to reject an amendment to the budget bill designed to keep kids on bikes designed for them and thus off adult vehicles. The reason the amendment was offered by South Carolina’s Jim DeMint is because the 2008 “Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act” mandates that products containing even trace amounts of lead –trace amounts highly unlikely to ever come in contact with a child’s digestion system– were banned from sale to children 12 and under.
As RF says: Do these people really think kids are putting motorcycle parts in their mouths? No, they just don’t think.
April 7th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
You know, if the Capitol was on fire and I could only drag out one person, it would be DeMint.
April 7th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
This is just one small example of how stupid the CPSIA bill is. overlawyered.com has a lot more examples.