Say goodbye to Christmas lights – Regulating them out of existence

They got rid of our fireworks now they're going for our xmas lights !


Is this is part of the Obama administration’s effort to reduce our use of electricity?

“The feds are rushing to save Americans from mass holiday displays,” says this article by Ernest Istook.

“Christmas lights have become so affordable that even the humblest of homes often are lit like the Star of Bethlehem,” says Istook. “Federal bureaucrats are working to end this. They claim it will make us safer, but the facts don’t back them up.”

“The Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) has created an example of regulate first and explain why later. In October they proposed new regulations to outlaw strings of bulbs, lighted lawn figures and similar items that would be declared as hazardous. The red tape deals with certifying wire sizes, fuses, and tensile strength of all “seasonal decorative lighting products.”

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