They're not content just to take food out of the mouths of children. Now they've apparently determined that being able to go to an online database created by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to find out which products might kill your kids is socialist or something.
Emboldened by a Republican majority in the House of Representatives, manufacturers of toys and other children's products are making a last-ditch effort to quash new safety regulations that they say are unfair or too onerous.Among their primary targets is a new public database, operated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and scheduled to go online in three weeks, that would allow the public to search for injury reports on products like cribs and strollers.
The manufacturers are also trying to scale back new regulations, drafted by the commission, that would require third-party testing to determine the safety and lead content of children's products.
They have found a receptive audience among House Republicans.
Already, Representative Mike Pompeo, a newly elected Republican from Kansas, has succeeding in passing an amendment to an appropriations bill to strip financing for the consumer products database, arguing that the idea needed to be tweaked to protect manufacturers from bogus complaints and lawsuits.
Pointing out for the umpteenth time, when they say they are "pro-life," they are lying. Those fetuses they want so desperately to protect? It's fine if they they're maimed or killed by a collapsing crib or brain-damaged from lead-poisoning once they're born. That's just the free market at work. And if the free market decides it needs to kill children in order to thrive ... well, then that's just the way it's gotta be.
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