Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Safety

Our shrub likes to claim he's makin' us safer. That's why he needs all kinds of secret authority to ignore the constitution.
The latest example of shrub keepin' us safer comes from the Consumer Product SAFETY Commission:

But as it turns out, Bush’s appointed chief of the CPSC wants less money, a smaller staff, and weaker rules for product safety.

The nation’s top official for consumer product safety has asked Congress in recent days to reject legislation intended to strengthen the agency, which polices thousands of consumer goods, from toys to tools.

On the eve of an important Senate committee meeting to consider the legislation, Nancy A. Nord, the acting chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, has asked lawmakers in two letters not to approve the bulk of legislation that would increase the agency’s authority, double its budget and sharply increase its dwindling staff.

Ms. Nord opposes provisions that would increase the maximum penalties for safety violations and make it easier for the government to make public reports of faulty products, protect industry whistle-blowers and prosecute executives of companies that willfully violate laws.



That's right; less inspection and enforcement of product safety is GOOD for you!
We deserve better.

3 comments:

Demeur said...

Think we should give her a nice new Corvair filled with lead laced toys from China?

Distributorcap said...

and feed rice some dog food shipped in a pinto

Anonymous said...

Can you believe these fuckers?

One of her suggestions is to give companies "Incentives" if they "halt sales of recalled products quickly."

In other words, the government will pay them to do what they should be doing in the first fucking place.