Sign the Petition to Change CPSIA

I’m pretty sure everyone has heard about CPSIA. If you haven’t then you probably don’t have the internet or cable. But that’s OK because I am hear to tell you about the horrible impact that CPSIA will have on all the mom businesses out there. And not just mom businesses…any small business (Etsy Store, Ebay, etc) that caters to children under 12 years old.

If this piece of legislation is not changed, there will be a lot of moms out there that make a living by working out of their home going back to work outside of the home. These are moms who want to stay home with their children; moms who have made sacrafices and found ways to supplement their income by opening an Etsy store, ebay store, etc. If this legislation is not changed, their product will become too expensive to be purchased, forcing them to shut down.

There is not one person out there that is concerned about MY children’s safety as I am. By keeping this legislation worded the way it is, we are having all of our hands held by our congressmen and women who think that we are not able to make suitable decisions where our children are concerned.

To me, this is all a bunch of bull. If our congress men and women want to make things better for fellow American’s, then stop allowing so much out sourcing to other countries, like China, that do not practice safe practices when products are made. Stop bringing in shipment after shipment of toys from China that are only going to be recalled a few weeks or months later. But no. Instead, congress insists upon asserting their athority by coming up with a piece of crap legislation that they don’t even have the means to police to make sure people are sticking to it. This is absolutely ridiculous.

I am asking you to go to this site and sign the petition to have the CPSIA legislation reworded, rethought out, etc. If you want to do more, Trisha over at Momdot had a few good ideas like sending all our “hazardous” items to our congress men and women. Let them see just what this stupid piece of legislation that they thought they were so brillant for coming up with, involves. Send them things like hairbows, hand knit sweaters, baby blankets, etc.