Congress is Not Our Friend

Posted by Valerie on February 28, 2009

Congress is creating woe for American businesses–and by American businesses, I mean American families and American children. CPSIA does not protect children; CPSIA hurts kids.

See Lead Ban Threatening Manufacturers. Multiply the devastation it records by 100,000–and then ask what this will do to our country. Written estimates that I’ve seen say that CPSIA will cause damage or devastation to 60-80% of American businesses. When CPSIA hurts businesses, it hurts the parents who run them and the parents who are employed by them–and the children who depend on those parents for their daily needs.

This vicious assault on our children must not go unchallenged.

The damage that CPSIA creates for children is wide-ranging, but it is all unacceptable and this Democratic Congress is absolutely refusing to hold any hearings. (In fact, they are pushing forward with more damage.)

SOME KIDS WILL GO WITHOUT WARM WINTER COATS THIS YEAR so that Congress can save face by silencing us.

SOME KIDS WILL NOT FIND AFFORDABLE SHOES THIS YEAR so that Congress can save face by silencing us.

SOME KIDS WILL NOT HAVE ACCESS TO SPECIAL ADAPTIVE PRODUCTS FOR DISABILITIES THIS YEAR so that Congress can save face by silencing us.

SOME KIDS WILL LOSE THEIR HOMES THIS YEAR WHEN THEIR PARENTS GO BANKRUPT so that Congress can save face by silencing us.

SOME KIDS WILL LOSE THE ABILITY TO CHOOSE THE BOOKS THAT THEY WANT TO READ THIS YEAR so that Congress can save face by silencing us.

SOME KIDS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WRITE WITH FUN AND INTERESTING PENS THIS YEAR so that Congress can save face by silencing us.

SOME KIDS WILL NOT HAVE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS THIS YEAR so that Congress can save face by silencing us. (I know! I shopped for my kids’ Christmas gifts at Goodwill for years!)

It is past time to speak out. Our economy has already been damaged, businesses have already been harmed, some families are already suffering.

Have mercy and make a phone call, write a letter, add a link to your Facebook, join the team of “Mommy Bloggers” who are fighting to win back our freedom.

If you won’t help, please stop by another day so that I can try again to persuade you.

If you will help, thank you.

Call your Senators and call your Congressman. If your representative is not ON THE RECORD actually SPONSORING a piece of legislation to repeal or greatly modify CPSIA, then he needs to go in 2010. (The legislation has already been written; all that your representative needs, to protect children, is 5 minutes and a pen.)

There is no excuse for any more congressmen standing by “‘writing letters” and “feeling our pain” while America’s children are harmed.