CPSIA redux

[unixronin]

By way of masgramondou:

On Friday, The Wall Street Journal noted a study by the Motorcycle Industry Council that concluded “90% of the youth fatalities and injuries on motorcycles occur when kids ride adult vehicles.”

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The Journal quoted Ken Luttrell, a Democratic state house member from Oklahoma as noting the obvious: “With these new regulations, Washington has only succeeded in making biking much more dangerous for kids.”

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Whenever I report on the law on air my e-mail box fills up with small business owners who cannot cope with the expensive (and in some instances impossible to comply with) mandates of the law.  Follow a blog like Overlawyered.com that chronicles the chaos, and the picture of an extraordinary blunder by Congress emerges.

Billions lost and who knows how many jobs disappeared is a scandal in good times and an unpardonable one in a severe recession, but the idea of a measure intended to increase child safety resulting quite directly in the death and injury of children really does set a new low mark for Congress.

Unfortunately, yet another sad comment on the failure of our government is that it no longer comes as any surprise when Congress once again throws the baby out with the bath-water.

Comments

[argonel.livejournal.com]

I think if you get eliminate the stealth vote, limit bills to a single issue, and prohibit non-germain riders that a lot of the remaning problem will solve itself.

Either that or the number of bills passed will proliferate hugely, so people can hide thier voting record in a batch of similar bills.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

To a certain extent, yes. I don't think those in themselves will fix the endemic corruption in Congress, or make Congress stay within the Constitutional limits of its powers and authority. They should help make those a little more publicly visible, though.