OK, back to the CPSC (see last Friday’s post). By my count, a total of 29 products were recalled in the month of April. Actually that is an overstatement, in that list are warnings from the CPSC like, “swimming pools are dangerous.” I’d like you to think back about all of the hysteria surrounding the lead paint and other dangerous aspects of importing goods from China. People went nuts. But let’s look at the types of recalls we saw in the U.S. in April. Here they are:
Just imagine all of the products made here in the U.S. of A. that the CPSC doesn’t look at, or that they overlook, or that are outside their purview. Just imagine all of the death and destruction that U.S. produced products will impose on the rest of the world since our CPSC is not looking out for the interests of Swedish, Italian, English and Spanish consumers. How can someone in Barcelona be sure that their Cub Cadet riding mower was produced safely? How can someone in Prague know that Cub Cadet did not bribe someone to make sure their product was rated “safe” when it really was not? And why should someone in Stockholm use a Mousse produced in a factory where workers do not have the same pension benefits, vacation benefits, environmental conditions and safety provisions as workers in Swedish factories?
And where are all the protesters going nuts about the safety of these products? Where are the CNN investigative reports? Where are the Congressional hearings to haul in the CEO’s to explain themselves?
Crickets. A sign of intellectual bankruptcy. Again.
Now that gardening season has arrived, one has to worry about the hazards inherent in pitchforks, tomato cages, and all gloves not sturdy enough to be pierced by pitchforks and tomato cages.
Whatever you do, make sure you do not stick your hand under your lawn mower.
More tips will be coming as the harvest season nears, as we pull out the heavy equipment like the four-row corn harvester.
Sorry, I got off Wintercow’s point. Of course the Swedes should impose stiff tariffs on any good that is not made by a European Lutheran.
In return, the US should embargo all Scandinavian herring.
Those doity Americun bastiats!