This law will not just affect Mom & Dad home base business. It will also affect all the thrift stores, eBay, and list goes on. We need to get together to vote against this law. We all need each other help now. Your opionion is important. Stop working for a few minutes and read through the above article and VOTE. Thanks everyone.

So how do we know if this law passed or not?

I just sent a letter.
Donna B in AR

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by ssarner 06 Jan 2009

Good for you Donna B in AR. Our voice will be hear.

This is just one more of the stupid laws someone thought up while probably sitting in the sauna at some expensive spa,like the one about making regular light bulbs obsolite in a few years.
If the lead paint used on toys made in China had not come to light none of this would be going on. Just one more reason why the manufacturing of goods should be returned to America. If people weren't so greedy we would all be better off. I'm 60 years old and I slept in a bed painted with lead paint...wasn't anything else...and low and behold I'm still alive and so are my relatives who for the most part probably slept in the same bed. If anyone thinks we are not headed toward a socialistic country just look around. The government is trying to control everything we do including making an honest living and taking care of our own. This stinks to high heaven. Someone is bound to make a lot of money from this and it won't be the cottage industry.
JMHO
Donna B in AR

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by ssarner 06 Jan 2009

I know it. This stupid law actually got me depress.

I can not believe how pathetic the world we live in has become. If it is so bad and we have to have laws and rules like this then how did we (meaning myself) make it to the grand age of 58 without all of the regulations to protect me. They were not around when I was growing up and I appear to have survived without too much trouble. The people making these ridiculous laws must have their heads somewhere it shouldn't be! You very really win against crap like this as they have forgotten who put them there and why they are there - "For the People" - but Good luck anyway!

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by ssarner 06 Jan 2009

It is because of few greedies then we all suffer. We have to voice together.

bump up. Everyone needs to see this, and respond. The livlihood of your friends may depend upon it. Marji

I voted & sent them a letter voicing my protest * Make that LETTERS.

Thank you for bringing this up, it is sometning that will seriously affect many people. Consider it done

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by ssarner 06 Jan 2009

PLease send a letter to your state senator. Thank you.

A few more useful links to protest this bill.
The first is simple after you click on it in the top right corner is find your senators select your state and click GO. Click on the name of your Senator scroll to the bottom and click on contact me.

http://www.senate.gov/

The next link is for US Congress
again after you click on the link in the left hand corner there is a search for your Representative type in your zip code and click GO your Congressman will come up click on the name and find the email contact info.

http://www.house.gov/

And last is the email for President elect Obama

http://www.congress.org/congresso...

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by marjialexa 06 Jan 2009

Charlie, thank you so much for these links!! This only takes a couple of e-mails, folks, and you CAN make a difference!! Marji

by ssarner 06 Jan 2009

I too email my alabama senator jeff sessions about this. I am going to email Richard Shelby too for this. Next I am going to email future elect prez OB.

Here is a letter I emailed to my Senators from Wisconsin and my Congressmen:

Dear Senator,

I, Charlene , must express my opposition to the “Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008.” This bill criminalizes the artisians and home crafters of this country. This bill is not only affecting our fragile economy, this bill also affects the craft creativity of our American culture which includes quilting, embroidering, sewing and list goes on. It also will affect the millions of people in this country that can only afford to shop at thrift shops.Here, I want to strongly oppose this bill.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/art...

http://www.kcbs.com/Thrift-Stores...

http://www.latimes.com/business/l...

http://www.dispatch.com/live/cont...

http://www.urbanmamas.com/urbanma...

Sincerely Yours,

Charlene

I have been reading all the links posted here, and this is going to be a disaster! We need to contact our Congresspeople about this problem. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has no authority to change the law that has been passed, only Congress can do that. Contact CPSC, by all means, but also call you Senators & Congresspeople! Apparently this law was passed so quickly over the problem of Chinese goods that were contaminated that no one really thought it through about the far reaching effect it would have on home businesses, thrift shops and the like. Call or write your congressional representatives, and please post this on every place you go! There are really enough embroiderers out there to make a difference if we all band together!! Marji

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by misscharlie 05 Jan 2009

Marji I have posted it at Garden web and A stitch club, I believe you belong to sick perhaps you can spark interest there also?

by marjialexa 06 Jan 2009

Yes, I will when I get home from work, for sure! M

this is what has allready happened in the Uk and we can no longer create childrens toys be they knitted sewn or created by any other method unless you have it tested, this means that if you sew a doll for a child then you can pay to have it tested OK but YOU CAN ONLY CREATE THAT ONE DOLL AND NO OTHER if you deviate from the tested doll in anyway whatsoever then you will require a new certificate of safety for that one,,,
In the Uk we are no longer able to build dolls houses for children to play with without a certificate. We can however build a "model house" for adults to display scaled items in.
where the Jam and Jerusalem gang used to make a lot of knitted dolls this is no longer allowed due to the health and safety act, If grandmas makes a soft toy for a G child and uses sewn on button eyes and the grandchild chews one off and swallowes it Grandma is then libel under the health and safety act of commiting a crime against that child, she can then be sued by the childs parents acting as the "childs best friend"
act on this or loose out as we have.....

How to prepare for the new safety rules:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4705095_n...

If you make children's items for sale, then you will be affected by this new law here in the US.<br />http://www.urbanmamas.com/urbanma...

Please, please vote against this law! Keep this at the top for everyone to see.
http://www.latimes.com/business/l...
http://www.dispatch.com/live/cont...

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by misscharlie 05 Jan 2009

voting is not what is needed emailing the commission is what we need to do

Here is a sample email for anyone that wants to copy it and email to the commision also the correct email addy

Sec102ComponentPartsTesting@cpsc.gov



Dear Secretary,

I, ______________, must express my opposition to the “Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008.” This bill criminalizes the artisians and home crafters of this country. This bill is not only affecting our fragile economy, this bill also affects the craft creativity of our American culture which includes quilting, embroidering, sewing and list goes on. Here, I want to cast my opposite opinion.

Sincerely Yours,

by misscharlie 05 Jan 2009

Also some great links added thx powagrl
Here is another that may be of interest

http://www.kcbs.com/Thrift-Stores...

by misscharlie 05 Jan 2009

Please take this seriously everyone I do not have a home business that will be affected. I do hop at thrift stores so that will be affected. Then a light bulb went off in my head my oldest daughter Tatum has a home business making jewelry this law can and will affect her, so I am asking you to not just focus on yourselves but your neighbors, friends and family members can this bill affect them?

by kharriman 05 Jan 2009

I just sent my email to them. I also told them that the county that I live in is the POOREST county in Maine. & passing this law would only make it worse.

by misscharlie 05 Jan 2009

I am so afraid people will not take notice of this and react until it is too late. The damage will be irreversible I'm afraid.

Here is a sample email for anyone that wants to copy it and email to the commision also the correct email addy

Sec102ComponentPartsTesting@cpsc.gov



Dear Secretary,

I, ______________, must express my opposition to the “Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008.” This bill criminalizes the artisians and home crafters of this country. This bill is not only affecting our fragile economy, this bill also affects the craft creativity of our American culture which includes quilting, embroidering, sewing and list goes on. Here, I want to cast my opposite opinion.

Sincerely Yours,

The e-mail address on the website has a typo in it, apparently. There is a 'w' in Parts that should not be there. The first one I sent came back, the corrected one didn't, yet anyway. Marji

Thanks for bringing this well-intentioned but truly idiotic law to our attention, Soi. I have read the article and sent a letter to the appropriate parties. This law is basically unenforceable, because its scope is astronomical in its reach. It would require all our police forces to make this work, and then some. The bad thing is that it will occasionally trap some unsuspecting small business and ruin them. We need a law that is workable and enforceable, that needs to be applied to the Chinese manufacturers who started this problem in the first place. In case you thought the threat of Communism was gone with the fall of the Soviet Union, think again. China will put us all out of business, then just purchase us. And we will not say a word, because everybody wants those cheap goods. Fascinating. This is not just a vote, please write a nice coherent e-mail or letter. It's worth the time. Marji

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by marjialexa 05 Jan 2009

Yes, please read Charlie's post!! The VOTE button is just for the article, in order to contact the leglislators you must write an e-mail or snail mail!!! The VOTE button doesn't do a thing about the problem except keep the article at the top!! Thanks, Charlie, for mentioning that. Marji

It is important that everyone takes a moment to send an email to oppose this bill going into effect. The vote button at the bottom is just for the site purposes to keep the article at the top place for readers. There are 3 ways to contact the commision
1. email Sec102ComponentPawrtsTesting@cpsc.gov
2. Fax (USA) 301 504-0127
OR
3. snail mail
The Office of the Secretary,
Consumer Product Safety Commission,
Room 502, 4330 East-West Highway,
Bethesda, Maryland 20814 US.
Comments should be captioned: Section 102 Mandatory Third-Party Testing of Component Parts'

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by marjialexa 05 Jan 2009

The e-mail address is wrong!! I just got my mail back. M

by misscharlie 05 Jan 2009

let me dbl check it

by misscharlie 05 Jan 2009

Sec102ComponentPawrtsTesting@cpsc.gov

by marjialexa 05 Jan 2009

You need to take the 'w' out of Parts for it to work, must be a typo, I haven't gotten that one back yet. M

by misscharlie 05 Jan 2009

you are right Marji I will try and find a correct email and post it asap

by misscharlie 05 Jan 2009

tyvm marji
Sec102ComponentPartsTesting@cpsc.gov

Just what brainhead came up with this....they sure haven't thought this through. I know way too many people who will be affected by this ridiculous law. Please vote.

This is horrible. How can someone have such a closed mind about what makes this struggling economy work and think this is beneficial? The next 4 years was supposed to get us out of trouble not make it worse! GRRRRRRRRRR

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by ssarner 05 Jan 2009

Yes, so please vote and also pass it on to all your friends to vote.

this is bureaucracy gone mad!! The sort of daft stuff that comes from EU regs!!It's unworkable. I won't affect me in the UK but I have voted in support of anyone who has a home based hobby/small business, even big firms will find this a nightmare. Could this just be another "tax" on goods. Jo

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by ssarner 05 Jan 2009

Thank you Jo for voting. Please forward to all your friends.

That will be horrible if it goes through!!! I voted! ***4U

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by ssarner 05 Jan 2009

Yes, definitely horrible. Thank you for voting. Please pass it on to all your friends.

I voted...thanx for posting I will pass it on:)

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by ssarner 05 Jan 2009

Thank you for voting, please pass it on to all your friends.

i got this in a email yesterday myself and was very surprised to read this there are a few of the yahoo group people pretty concerned as well because they have a home buisness in making items ans this will hurt them also i voted on this last night i am aslo sending this link to all my other forums as well we need to win this thank u Soi for posting this

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by ssarner 05 Jan 2009

You r very welcome MaryMoore. We need to get the message out. Thank you for doing that.