Consumers Beware!
President Barack Obama has tapped former S.C. Schools Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum to run the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission – a $107 million agency that’s charged with (duh) protecting consumers.
Obama has also increased the number of Consumer Product Safety Commissioners from three to five, because there’s literally nothing that can’t be improved by adding more bureaucrats, right?
More important than any of that, though, Obama publicized the appointment vigorously because Tenenbaum’s successor was perceived as being “too close to industry.”
Which is another way of saying that she didn’t rely exclusively on taxpayers to fund her travel.
Anyway, if Tenenbaum is as successful at this job as she was during her two terms as State Superintendent, we’ll all be dead of tragic consumer product malfunctions within the year.
Because let’s face it, growing government so that more of your core responsibilities can “slip through the cracks” is the Tenenbaum M.O.
Comments
By Bill Thompson on May 5th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
This comes as great news for everyone. Hopefully, her selection will also help inject a degree of sanity to the great “CPSIA debate.” http://tinyurl.com/d65yvn Goodness knows, it is much needed!
By El Guapo on May 5th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Obama’s most brilliant choice yet…who has more experiece working with defective products?
He got himself a ringer!
By ts on May 5th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
We’re dead — along with free enterprise. Crappy choice, Bamy.
By Philip Branton on May 5th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
LOL……
As if a fine South Carolina Engineer from SM&E Engineering, or Michellin, or GE, or Sunoco, or Bosch would NOT be a better FIT…!!?!?
Too close to industry…!?!
Geez ?? Wouldn’t you want to have someone that knew what the TRICKs were…???
By BIN News Editorial Staff on May 5th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Gosh. He could have picked some proven leader from the Bush Administration.
Let’s see. Like who? Yawn…………….
By weighing in on May 6th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
with all the problems on imported products lately, not sure where increasing the # of commissioners from 3 to 5 is a bad thing…