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I told you your yard sale was illegal, here come the feds to shut you down

Back in May I noted that Obama's Big Brother Bureaucrats armed with clipboards could swoop down on your yard sales to check for "defective" products.

I was right. They're out on patrol; it's called "Operation Resale Roundup".

Bureaucratic storm troopers will ensure your compliance with every nuance of product liability law. That junk in your attic that you sell for $1 could land you in jail.

Whatever happened to common sense? Caveat Emptor? They must be dead. Parents can no longer be trusted to know what is best for their children? We aren't talking about huge retail chains with battalions of lawyers on staff. It's you and me and the single mom down the street. Do we have time to check voluminous manufacturer's recall lists? Of course not. So our only protection now is to forego having a yard sale.

When in doubt, throw it out?

And the thing that really kills me is the flat out ban on reselling used children's books if they were printed prior to 1985. Obama's minions have decided that children's books only have a "limited useful lifetime" of approximately twenty years.

It's pretty easy to guess why that is. Old books contain "outdated ideas". Ideas which might conflict with the Progressive Agenda. Obama can't have children learning about chivalry or liberty or self-reliance or how to use guns. Next thing you know they'll question the need to sign up for ObamaCorps and "volunteer" to serve their Lord and Master as part of getting a high school diploma.

"Ideas are more dangerous than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?" --Josef Stalin.

There's Obama's real reason for Operation Resale Roundup. Old books could evoke a nostalgia that is inconsistent with his plans to remake America. In those old books, the people helped themselves! They didn't wait for a government bureaucrat to ride into town to tell them what to do. They didn't look to Washington for solutions to their problems. They made do and they overcame.

And even worse, they took risks; risks that might have led to failure, with nary a progressive safety net in sight! But, and this is the most troubling aspect of all to the Progressives, they succeeded without government help.

Add in gobs of manliness, with insistance that ladies were fragile and worth protecting, and you have a recipe for Liberal disaster.

Better to make sure that those ideas can't be easily passed around. And Operation Resale Roundup was born.

Posted at 17:23 by Chris Wysocki   [/rants]   Comments | Archived | Perm Link |
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