Potent Quotables (updated periodically)

  • "If you like sausages and laws, you should never watch either one of them being made." -- Otto von Bismarck
  • "God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson
  • "The best way to prove a stick is crooked is to lay a straight one beside it" -- FW Boreham
  • "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'" -- Abigail Van Buren
  • "It was not political rhetoric, mass rallies or poses of moral indignation that gave the people a better life. It was capitalism." -- Thomas Sowell

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

The Law of Unintended (?) Consequences, part 3271

The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 affects (among other things) children's books, children's clothes, children's bicycles, and Goodwill and other thrift stores. Not to mention the eeeeeevil horrors of dumping all those products that have been mandated as unusable or "dangerous" into landfills. Ridiculous.

Honestly? Tell me something, anything good that has come out of congress in the last 30 years. Preferably something that wasn't a rectification of a problem they caused themselves.
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  1. GrimpFebruary 18, 2009 at 8:36 PM

    Maybe it would be best for them to simply focus their efforts on monitoring safe peanut butter protocol and leave major economics to the pros (ie, the public).

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