So much wisdom has already been posted about the CPSIA, but I’d like to use today’s “Blog-In” post to remind everyone that America is a country of innovation. Many many many things that exist today worldwide began in someone’s American home or garage, or in a small American company.

If this law is not changed in time, it affects far more than the crafters or small businesses, or the economies of our communities, states and nation. It affects the American way of life, the hope for a better tomorrow that we hold so dearly as one of our core truths, and through our children’s increased lack of resources and teaching tools, it affects our future.

What will happen when American children only have access to foreign-made mass produced products? What will happen when, over time, generations grow up thinking that America cannot provide what they need, that we have to go elsewhere? It’s already happening with electronics, do we really want to continue that trend with everything our children touch?

Lead limits are fine, I agree with moving toward that. But change this to require *component testing* only so that innovative manufacturers small and large are free to continue to imagine and create wonderful things for our children, and therefore our future, using safe or certified raw materials and supplies.

Readers, don’t address your concerns to the CPSC, address them to your Congressmen who can address Congress’ Committee on Energy and Commerce who pushed this law through. They made a MISTAKE and the rest of Congress, whether due to being in a hurry, mob mentality, or special interest pressure, followed along without considering how devastating this will be.

Can we count on them to DO better, now that they KNOW better?

Karen Clark
Independent Consultant for
Story Time Felts