Bankruptcy Day, Feb. 10th....................

Can Congress do any more harm to our economy than they already have? Well, friends the answer is a humongous YES! On Feb. 10th of this year a new law goes into effect that says that all items sold at stores for children have to be tested for lead and other cancer causing agents. While Congress passed this law to "protect the children," (the standard mantra of the left now,) it will have a devastating effect on commerce. Small mom and pop shops will have to test each item of children's apparel, toys, and even books at a cost of $100 to $500 dollars for each test. Many of these shops of course cannot afford this kind of expense and will be virtually bankrupt on Feb 10th because after that date they will no longer be able to sell their products.

Big box stores are not exempt either, they will have to comply with the new law too, but I'm told that many will just pitch the items they have on their shelves and restock with toys and such that have already been tested. There goes the landfills.

This law was passed by a broad margin. In fact only three Republicans in the Senate voted against this bill. Bush signed this into law last year not thinking of the damage to small business or even the consequences of the thousands of people he put out of work.

Of course now Congress sees the problem now and wanst to "FIX" things, but, will most likely be to little to late for most mom and pop shops. In an era of a bad economy you would think that Congress would just reverse themselves on an obvious bad law, but no, the "FIX" is in.

And if this isn't bad enough the EPA this year will start to tax farmers with a flatulence tax. Yes, my friends farmers are going to be taxed $175 dollars a year for every cow they have on their farms, hogs and chickens aren't exempt either and will be taxed at a lesser amount. The reason for this tax is to clean the air, if you can believe that. I didn't know taxes cleaned the air, I just thought they cleaned out our wallets.

Today our government is out of control and WE THE PEOPLE are about to experience a national nightmare. If the new President and Congress get their way the United States of America as we knew it will cease to exist.

VIVE LIBERTE'
Vote Libertarian!