Well, let’s see. Many of the businesses in the 19th and early 20th century not only put out products known to be harmful to their customers, but deadly to their employees. The reaction to these frequent abuses has lead to the huge federal government we have today. This government has it’s purpose and is necessary to help protect people. It’s an oversimplification to say that if you eliminate these protections you wouldn’t have serious abuses. There are far too many out there who would do anything for a dollar, even kill the customer. I would love to see the power of the government cut back a little, but we need the protections provided.
Good: maybe next will be OSHA, the EPA, Dept of Education, Dept of Labor, Department of Energy, EEOC, the IRS and a host of other unconstitutional agencies and departments are going to whither on the vine too.
Let the buyer beware… why should any business care about the consumer?? all they do is complain and sue and cut into company profits.. Let’s go back to the good ol’ days when corporations ruled but were not subjected to rules!!! Oops…we’re there. I’ve written to my senators and congressman requesting they add a 4th position….we need to be protected from the inferior imports as we have recently seen!
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”
Where does the Cosntitution delegate “consumer product safety” to the federal govt., or prohibit it to the states?
Nan: Business care about consumers because consumers are the ones that BUY their products. Businesses that do not care about consumers do not last, regardless of government regulation. It’s called a free market.
I would agree that the businesses that care about the consumer and the products it manufactures would be successful. But what or who protects the consumer from unscrupulous businesses that are just out to make a quick profit. Needles to say, there are also “responsible” companies out there that need some incentives to do the right thing, witness the auto industry’s resistance to installing seat belts in their products during the 60’s, until mandated to.
Al,
During this past year the federal gov’t decided to OVERRIDE state laws regarding food products labeling. States can try to protect it’s citizens but when the feds over rule them then we need the Consumer Protection Agency to keep an eye on the feds!
The power to regulate product safety can (and probably has) been inferred from the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, which states “The Congress shall have Power …To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.”
Consumer Protection Agency is the Feds!!! The states could sue the Feds over jurisdiction, but they won’t because they’re lazy and want the feds to do everything. If we were still being governed by the Constitution rather than bureaucrats and judges, we would need no income tax on wages. Since the expense of the federal govt has swollen to the size of its appetite, we have deficit spending and constant threats to our freedoms from over-zealous govt lifers.
I know I’m way off topic for an insurance web site, but the point is that we become alarmed when the feds even hint that they are going to stop doing they have no business doing in the first place.
Next to the “welfare cluase,” the commerce clause is the portion of the Constitution that is the most abused.
All it was intended by the founders to accomplish is a free trade zone among the states, because under the Articles of Confederation the states had instituted all kinds of protectionist policies against one another.
James Madison said that the powers delegated to the federal government are “few and defined. Those that are to remain to the states are numerous and indefinite.” He would spin in his grave if he knew how the welfare and commerce clauses have been misinterpreted by congress and the courts to overturn the govenment bequeathed to us by him and his fellows.
It’s just crazy what they have done with a very simple few words – they have altered out government and therefore, our way of life.
Any congressman who behaves contrary to his oath of office should be impeached, which means that if We The People (and/or the states) were to get serious about reigning in the feds from their reckless accumulation of power in spite of the Tenth Amendment, we could go back to the kind and size of govt intended for us by the fathers of our nation. (Think HUGE tax cuts and no IRS.)
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Well, let’s see. Many of the businesses in the 19th and early 20th century not only put out products known to be harmful to their customers, but deadly to their employees. The reaction to these frequent abuses has lead to the huge federal government we have today. This government has it’s purpose and is necessary to help protect people. It’s an oversimplification to say that if you eliminate these protections you wouldn’t have serious abuses. There are far too many out there who would do anything for a dollar, even kill the customer. I would love to see the power of the government cut back a little, but we need the protections provided.
Good: maybe next will be OSHA, the EPA, Dept of Education, Dept of Labor, Department of Energy, EEOC, the IRS and a host of other unconstitutional agencies and departments are going to whither on the vine too.
Let the buyer beware… why should any business care about the consumer?? all they do is complain and sue and cut into company profits.. Let’s go back to the good ol’ days when corporations ruled but were not subjected to rules!!! Oops…we’re there. I’ve written to my senators and congressman requesting they add a 4th position….we need to be protected from the inferior imports as we have recently seen!
The 10th Amendment says this:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”
Where does the Cosntitution delegate “consumer product safety” to the federal govt., or prohibit it to the states?
Al: Right on.
Nan: Business care about consumers because consumers are the ones that BUY their products. Businesses that do not care about consumers do not last, regardless of government regulation. It’s called a free market.
I would agree that the businesses that care about the consumer and the products it manufactures would be successful. But what or who protects the consumer from unscrupulous businesses that are just out to make a quick profit. Needles to say, there are also “responsible” companies out there that need some incentives to do the right thing, witness the auto industry’s resistance to installing seat belts in their products during the 60’s, until mandated to.
Al,
During this past year the federal gov’t decided to OVERRIDE state laws regarding food products labeling. States can try to protect it’s citizens but when the feds over rule them then we need the Consumer Protection Agency to keep an eye on the feds!
Al –
The power to regulate product safety can (and probably has) been inferred from the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, which states “The Congress shall have Power …To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.”
Consumer Protection Agency is the Feds!!! The states could sue the Feds over jurisdiction, but they won’t because they’re lazy and want the feds to do everything. If we were still being governed by the Constitution rather than bureaucrats and judges, we would need no income tax on wages. Since the expense of the federal govt has swollen to the size of its appetite, we have deficit spending and constant threats to our freedoms from over-zealous govt lifers.
I know I’m way off topic for an insurance web site, but the point is that we become alarmed when the feds even hint that they are going to stop doing they have no business doing in the first place.
I just found that to be a tad ironic, is all.
Next to the “welfare cluase,” the commerce clause is the portion of the Constitution that is the most abused.
All it was intended by the founders to accomplish is a free trade zone among the states, because under the Articles of Confederation the states had instituted all kinds of protectionist policies against one another.
James Madison said that the powers delegated to the federal government are “few and defined. Those that are to remain to the states are numerous and indefinite.” He would spin in his grave if he knew how the welfare and commerce clauses have been misinterpreted by congress and the courts to overturn the govenment bequeathed to us by him and his fellows.
It’s just crazy what they have done with a very simple few words – they have altered out government and therefore, our way of life.
Any congressman who behaves contrary to his oath of office should be impeached, which means that if We The People (and/or the states) were to get serious about reigning in the feds from their reckless accumulation of power in spite of the Tenth Amendment, we could go back to the kind and size of govt intended for us by the fathers of our nation. (Think HUGE tax cuts and no IRS.)