Re: John R. Lott, Jr. - Looking at Fluorescent Bulbs in Different Light

Mrs Wagonseller <mrswagonseller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Benj wrote:

On Jun 3, 11:19 am, "Cole Firearms Inc."
<colefirearm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


First, the EPA warns to immediately evacuate the room of all people
and pets, and to ensure that no one walks through the breakage area on
their way out of the room. Windows must be opened and no one may
re-enter the room for at least 15 minutes. Any central heating or air
conditioning system should be shut down.

Take the relatively simple cleanup instructions for hard surfaces.
Quoting from the EPA warning:

? Carefully scoop up glass pieces and powder using stiff paper or
cardboard and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a
canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.

? Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small
glass fragments and powder.

? Wipe the area clean with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes.
Place towels in the glass jar or plastic bag.

? Do not use a vacuum or broom to clean up the broken bulb on hard
surfaces.

More rules apply the next several times one cleans the area. Each time
one vacuums the area again: open the windows and shut off any central
heating or air conditioning system. The windows should also remain
open for at least 15 minutes after the vacuuming is completed.

It is not just customers who face risks. Undoubtedly many people will
simply dispose of used compact fluorescent light bulbs in the trash.
As John Skinner, executive director of the Solid Waste Association of
North American, the group representing those who handle the trash,
warned:

"The problem with the bulbs is that they'll break before they get to
the landfill. They'll break in containers, or they'll break in a
dumpster or they'll break in the trucks. Workers may be exposed to
very high levels of mercury when that happens."

Even transporting your new unbroken light bulbs creates all sorts of
problems. Warnings state that the bulbs be put in containers with
tight fitting lids and further suggesting the containers be filled
with kitty litter around the bulbs to protect them from breaking due
to sudden shocks. There is even the helpful suggestion that the
container be labelled "Mercury ? DO NOT OPEN." Of course, you should
transport these packages in a car trunk, but if you must keep them in
the passenger compartment, make sure that it is well ventilated.

These are just some of the hassles to this latest "do good"
regulation. Politicians place a premium on saving energy to the
exclusion of saving people's time, or, in this case, even their health.


Hey, fluorescent lights have been around for a VERY long time and are
essentially the same as the curlycue bulbs. Stores use them. Factories
use them and have done so for MANY MANY years. Hey, I have had LOTS
of tubular fluorescent lamps in my house since the 60's. I put in the
curlycue bulbs and it cut my electric bill in HALF!!! Reason enough
for me!

But you know economic forces are never enough for those in government!
They want not only to "do good" but they want to FORCE you other
dumber, less caring people to do the right thing for your own good.
So they start making a list of things that are "good for you" and soon
it's a crime not to do any of them! No matter if it no longer makes
sense. Liberals are much more about "caring" and emotion rather than
thinking and reason!

So, we know seat belts can protect you in an accident, right? Sure, so
lets make it a crime not to wear one! vaccinations can protect some
people from disease, right? So lets make it a felony not to have your
kids vaccinated. And we all know that insurance is a good thing and
gives "protection", right? So let's force everyone to buy insurance.
And the list of things that are "good for you" that can be made into
crimes if you don't do them goes on and on! Sorry pal, you are under
arrest for not eating your spinach!

So just how "dangerous" is a bit of mercury? Kids in my day used to
coat pennies with it. They didn't die. Factories and stores have been
disposing of zillions of fluorescent tubes for at least half a century
and the world didn't come to a choking poisonous end! Hey, it's not
exactly a "safe" substance either but a little common sense goes a
long way here. But the bureaucrats hadn't discovered sensitive mercury
detectors yet! That's it. Once you can Measure something, then you can
start to go around arresting people where you find it! Who cares if
any of this makes sense? Throwing your authority around and ruining
the lives of (relatively) innocent people is usually enough for any
government bureaucrat!

So once the government was paying people big money to wade in asbestos
during WWII and now if you have some old asbestos shingles on your
house, you have to pay a million bucks to put the house in a plastic
bag to take them off! Does this somehow make up for all the people
the same bureaucrats killed making them work with the dangerous
material as a "duty"? Did the bureaucrats even cover the health costs
of the people they killed? Did they care? Ha!

What Lott doesn't get is that the "problem" is not mercury, or "global
warming" or asbestos, or lead, or guns or insurance or ANYTHING like
that. The PROBLEM, dear boy, IS GOVERNMENT! It is government run amuck
totally without any reason and with WAY too much authority! And if
the planet is to be saved, is not "carbon credits" that is going to do
it, it will be a revolt of the people against wanton stupid
interference in their lives by government.

Yes, 60 years ago when I was a kid, we would find old radios in the junk
pile. They had tubes that had a big glob of mercury in them. We would
break the tubes and get the mercury out and play with it in our bare
hands and like you say rub it in nickels and pennies. I will soon be 70
and still waiting for it to kill me.


It isn't the mercury that worries me. It's what new measures will be taken and
at what cost to the economy and to freedom. I fully expect the dipsuits to
wake up one to issue of MERCURY!!!! It will be a major nationwide health
crisis. how about forced recycling You can't get a new buld without returning
the old bulb. Or paying an extra fee.

The American people had better wake up to the incompetnece of the socialists
befoe they haven't got 2 cents to rub together to care for thier children.
Which would be fine becuase the state will just take them anyway and raise
them.

Frank
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