More Half Baked Regulations

New Government Policy Imposes Strict Standards on Garage Sales Nationwide

As each day of the Obama administration passes, it becomes more evident and obvious to me that there are zealots afoot at all levels of our government now.

While most Americans have been weighing and questioning the validity of potentially allowing the government to manage their health care, the obvious parallels of complete absurdity and incompetence continue to spill forth from Washington like a waterfall.

The analogies and reasons why we should run screaming from any federally mandated health care program are almost endless.

Can a government that cannot even manage a cash for clunkers give away program be trusted with our health care and our children's future? Should a government that cannot even manage a government postal service that is imploding and bankrupt and is completely incapable of competing with the private sector, be allowed to manage our health care nationally?

Should the federal government, who has already turned the Medicare and Medicaid programs into the world's largest and most expensive and unmanageable public health care program, be allowed to pass the same tragedy on to us all?

I ask these questions rhetorically yet they remain prescient IMO. As does another recent revelation of our imperial federal government in Washington. Unbeknown st to most Americans, the Consumer Product Safety Commission slipped a nifty little piece of regulation into law and they are now about to apply it to Americans all across America.

It seems that if you intend to have a garage sale now? You had better down load the Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission's manual and obtain a copy of all of their product recalls going back decades. And you had better dutifully search through this government maze of regulation and prohibition? Or else you might be fined from $100,000 to $15,000,000 per violation for selling something you possess at a garage sale. Something as seemingly innocuous as an "Easy Bake Oven."

Heaven forbid that you should offer up a set of lawn darts, or horse shoes or an old wood burning set that doesn't have all it's warning stickers. Do that? And they will probably come down on you like gang busters and be talking prison time.

At what point does the ridiculous and absurd in federal regulation reach a level where the people of this country will say enough is enough? And if this is the government's version of looking out for the interests of our children? Just imagine what they have in store for those who might attempt to sell a firearm to a friend or neighbor.

As a matter of fact? They are already hard at work on that too.

Have a look at Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 (H.R. 45)

Meanwhile, take that Easy Bake Oven to the crusher post haste, (while you still have time) or else the brown shirts may be paying you a visit soon. And it probably won't be long before they have government monitors in the check out line. Taking notes on those buying cookie dough in small quantities while pushing children around in their buggy.