Uncategorized 12 Sep 2007 12:25 pm
“My Double-Wide, My Weather Radio, and Thee”
A Bama Blog ran an interesting story that I missed:
Congressman Spencer Bachus (R.-Vestavia Hills Country Club) wants the federal nanny to be queen of every double-wide trailer in America.
“All new manufactured homes would have to come with a weather alert radio under legislation introduced this week by Rep. Spencer Bachus and others.
“I was almost stunned that such a wonderful idea as this, that we hadn’t done it before,” Bachus said Thursday.
Named for a 2-year-old boy killed in tornado in Indiana in 2005, C.J.’s Home Protection Act would change the federal safety standards for manufactured homes and make the industry pay for the receivers and their installation before the homes are delivered.
I think Rep. Bachus’ work is only partly done.
I’d like to see him introduce legislation to the effect that henceforth, every attempt to deepen the penetration of the “Nanny State” into the lives of individual citizens and families ought to be required to be named after a dead kid.
