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Petition created by Make Second Hand Kid's Clothes Legal!
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Sat., Feb. 14, 2009 12:08 PM link Michelle T. | Wellston, OH
Sat., Feb. 14, 2009 12:10 PM link Michelle T. | Wellston, OH
Sat., Feb. 14, 2009 1:44 PM link Jennifer G. | Frederick, MD
Sun., Feb. 15, 2009 9:29 AM link Tracy T. | Telford, PA
Mon., Feb. 16, 2009 9:18 AM link Stephanie B. | Battle Creek, MI
Mon., Feb. 16, 2009 4:06 PM link Kerrie R. | Battle Creek, MI
Mon., Feb. 16, 2009 6:39 PM link Char P. | Battle Creek, MI
Tue., Feb. 17, 2009 7:09 AM link Tammy G. | Battle Creek, MI
Use your head. We already have most of Michigan bankrupting now!
And PLEASE try kneeling before God every morning asking Him to help you make the right decisions for our state! Everyone keeps asking why God will not do anything. Why should He when our government keeps taking God out of everything!! Like any relationship, you only get what you put into it.
So please! Ask God back in Michigan!!
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Tue., Feb. 17, 2009 1:16 PM link Susan O. | Bethlehem, PA
Tue., Feb. 17, 2009 5:11 PM link Cassi S. | Fort Collins, CO
This is absolutely obsurd! You let these items be sold imported and/or sold already in this country once...if you are so concerned about this testing being done do your jobs the first time! This will only negatively effect our hard working families and small businesses and help large corporate monopolies like Walmart who DO NOT offer and equivalent solution to are blue collar families!!! Please stop this nonsense!! Our citizens need options like this available to them!!
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Wed., Feb. 18, 2009 9:31 AM link Katherine B. | Atlanta, GA
Wed., Feb. 18, 2009 12:30 PM link Patricia P. | ,
Wed., Feb. 18, 2009 4:00 PM link Y S. | Chicago, IL
Im the first to petition from the state of Illinois, where unfortunately the great mind behind this new law resides and represent as Congressman. That individual is Congressman Bobby Rush. I am a mother of two young children and appalled at this law that threatens resale shops and the like that have provided a "joyable financial cushion" for both parents and children. I shop at resale stores, thrift stores and goodwill stores not only because I save a considerable amount of money but the joys of finding rare items such as out of print children books, I appreciate.
We trust our lawmakers to make wise decisions on the behalf of consumers. However, I believe they should carefully research and consider how such laws can adversely affect consumers. Especially voting consumers and those who pay taxes. To allow Chinese products contaminated with lead be the catalyst that could destroy the financially stability of low-income families and even middle-income families would be disasterous to a nation scrabbling to make ends meet and trying to withstand the bolstering winds of a miserable economy.
People who shop at resale or thrift stores will not resort to shopping at Wal-Mart or Target. The savings is to significant and can not be duplicated at these mega-so-called discount stores. Besides I personally take pride at buying from resale shops.
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Thu., Feb. 19, 2009 6:41 AM link Christine S. | Battle Creek, MI
Thu., Feb. 19, 2009 3:09 PM link Name not displayed | Fairport, NY
Thu., Feb. 19, 2009 10:31 PM link cindy b. | Battle Creek, MI
Fri., Feb. 20, 2009 10:53 PM link M C. | Battle Creek, MI
Sat., Feb. 21, 2009 12:59 PM link Barbara C. | Warrenton, VA
Sat., Feb. 21, 2009 1:02 PM link Barbara C. | Warrenton, VA
Sun., Feb. 22, 2009 11:21 AM link Janet G. | Warrenton, VA
In this time of economic crisis we need our resale shops as never before. Please act quickly!
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Sun., Feb. 22, 2009 3:08 PM link Joyce R. | Philadelphia, PA
Sun., Feb. 22, 2009 4:25 PM link Ava M. | Croydon, PA
Wed., Feb. 25, 2009 12:38 AM link Amy B. | Tucson, AZ
Fri., Feb. 27, 2009 11:05 AM link Name not displayed | Austin, TX
Fri., Feb. 27, 2009 1:48 PM link Donna S. | Rochester, NY
Fri., Feb. 27, 2009 5:57 PM link Janie W. | ,
Fri., Feb. 27, 2009 8:06 PM link Name not displayed | Vermilion, OH
Sun., Mar. 1, 2009 1:11 PM link Susan D. | Arlington, MA
Mon., Mar. 2, 2009 9:13 AM link Holly C. | Roslindale, MA
Mon., Mar. 2, 2009 2:05 PM link N. T. | North Platte, NE
We need resale shops and consider it an essential for a free-market economy. Families (as well as small businesses)will suffer immensely if you curtail the free exchange of goods. Please consider the broad, destructive consequences of this poorly-conceived legislation and CHANGE IT immediately for the sake of economic health and recovery. We the people are counting on you for common sense exercised for the common good!
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Tue., Mar. 3, 2009 1:37 PM link Crystal C. | Fredericksburg, VA
Tue., Mar. 3, 2009 1:43 PM link Name not displayed | Fredericksburg, VA
Thu., Mar. 5, 2009 12:24 AM link Name not displayed | Waterloo, IA
Mon., Mar. 9, 2009 12:44 AM link April W. | Nellysford, VA
Big Government - please get out of our way so that the creativity and ingenuity of the American Small Business Owner can continue to thrive. We are NOT the problem.
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Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 4:15 PM link Name not displayed | Townsend, MA
Thu., Mar. 12, 2009 11:54 AM link Name not displayed | Athens, GA
Thu., Mar. 19, 2009 5:11 PM link Cindy G. | Fairport, NY
Recycle, reuse! Am I supposed to put my granddaughter's clothes, worn by only her, into a land fill?? As for cost, even I, in a professional job, cannot afford to buy her clothes every time she grows, which is 'often'.
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Fri., Mar. 20, 2009 3:36 PM link Leah C. | Taylor, MI
As a store manager, I am most concerned about the possible litigation of people working the obvious flaws in the CPSIA. The courts will be clogged with an unimaginable array of frivolous lawsuits because someone bought a recalled item for 99 cents- even if no harm is done to someone, I guarantee that some lawyer somwhere will begin the CPSIA lawsuit train- that is what will close our doors.
As thrift stores, we need to use business commen sense in order to protect our customers as much a possible- we encourage all our customers to check all used items from any store against the CPSC recall data base, and even offer a full refund if the custoemr discovers a recalled item makes it to the floor (we cannot possibly check each donated item agaist the thousands on the recall site, but an individual who buys 10 or 15 items can easily do this). But the bottom line is we are still liable, even though we have used reasonable effort to follow the law.
All in all, I am really not to concerned about the CPSC "Lead Police" storming a little thrift store using commen sense- I am concerned about people using the CPSIA as a way to make "easy" money in a lawsuit.
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Thu., Mar. 26, 2009 12:21 AM link George P. | Nacogdoches, TX
Fri., Mar. 27, 2009 6:44 PM link Name not displayed | Olmsted Falls, OH
People need these types of stores around plus they've been around for many,many years! So why get rid of them now.The economy isn't that great right now,thousands of people have already lost their jobs,and not everyone can afford to buy brand new things.There are lots of people including myself that rely on these shops and if they go out of business i don't know what we would do.Almost all the stuff my family owns are from these shops,i dont understand why they would do this to people like we're not struggling enough!
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Sat., Mar. 28, 2009 10:03 PM link Karen L. | Rochester, NY
Sun., Mar. 29, 2009 12:49 PM link Name not displayed | North Andover, MA
Mon., Mar. 30, 2009 6:44 PM link Jodie S. | Oak Park, IL
Mon., Mar. 30, 2009 11:28 PM link Cindy J. | Thorndale, TX
This simply does not make sense especially in this economic climate! How does making things harder on already cash strapped citizens make economic sense?!
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Wed., Apr. 1, 2009 10:58 AM link Kathy M. | Norwalk, CT
Wed., Apr. 1, 2009 11:11 AM link George M. | Norwalk, CT
Wed., Apr. 1, 2009 11:13 AM link George M. | Norwalk, CT
Wed., Apr. 1, 2009 11:15 AM link George M. | Norwalk, CT
Mon., Apr. 6, 2009 8:07 AM link Name not displayed | Youngstown, OH
Mon., Apr. 13, 2009 1:20 PM link Erin H. | Libertyville, IL
Tue., Apr. 14, 2009 5:42 PM link Dan D. | Landing, NJ
Members of Congress, I am joining this petition to stress the need for you and your colleagues to act swiftly and pass HR 1027. My wife and I own a small, community consignment shop. Our shop services hundreds of local families, employs 6 hard working community residents, and donates thousands of articles of clothing and accessories to local families in need. In this economy, businesses like ours are essential and mandating a testing requirement on a small operation like this is a death sentence. Not only would you put me out of business, I would lose tens of thousands of dollars. I would be financially ruined. Additionally, you would burden the people who work in my shop and everyone who rely on it for essential clothing for their children. We must be grandfathered to sell existing products that met the current safety standards, until the new testing and labeling processes are instituted on the manufacturer level. Everyone wants children to be safe, but the responsibility lies with the manufacturer, not mom and pop shops that deal in their products in the second-hand market. Please act immediately and get HR 1027 out of committee, onto the floor, and passed. The CPSIA must be amended and clarified.
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Wed., Apr. 15, 2009 5:23 PM link Judy D. | Stafford, VA
Sun., Apr. 19, 2009 7:15 PM link brenda m. | Brownstown, IN
Sun., May. 31, 2009 9:55 AM link Sue S. | Dallas, TX
Tue., Jun. 2, 2009 4:59 PM link Teresa M. | Olive Branch, MS
I personally think that this is ridiculous.
I can understand making the manufacturer check for lead, but thrift,consignment,etc.There is no way possible for this to be done.
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Thu., Jun. 4, 2009 11:50 AM link Krista E. | Greenwood, AR
I appreciate what the CPSC is trying to accomplish, but the testing should be required at the manufacturing level. You can't make resellers the scape goat in all this. If you don't allow the items to be made and distributed, it solves the whole problem.
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Thu., Jul. 2, 2009 11:11 PM link Heather R. | Seattle, WA
Thu., Jul. 16, 2009 1:04 AM link Nicole . | Mesa, AZ
I also own a resale shop and service many customers and this will destroy my business and hurt many , many families and other small businesses. It's very ridiculous that it is even happening.
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Thu., Jul. 30, 2009 1:42 AM link Kiesha C. | Lavaca, AR
Fri., Jul. 31, 2009 9:28 PM link Vivian H. | Bernalillo, NM
Sat., Aug. 22, 2009 6:15 PM link Michele A. | Watertown, WI
Mon., Aug. 24, 2009 10:49 AM link Carol S. | Watertown, WI
Wed., Oct. 14, 2009 7:27 PM link Anna T. | North Hollywood, CA
Fri., Oct. 16, 2009 6:54 PM link Tim M. | Vancouver, WA
Sat., Oct. 31, 2009 10:24 AM link Name not displayed | Elmhurst, IL
Wed., Jan. 13, 2010 12:11 PM link Name not displayed | Duncannon, PA
Thu., Jan. 28, 2010 8:35 AM link Sally C. | Elizabethtown, PA
I think that I never would have been able to survive financially if I couls not use hand-me-downs for my children. I also craft blankets from material purchased, although I have never sold them(they are always gifts), what a disappointment to have to stop!
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