Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham wants to sell toxic toys to poor children

Jerbal

Jerbal wants to sell toxic toys to the working poor

It is one thing to be ignorant, but Red County’s Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham has hit a new low.   He has actually become dangerous to public safety.

Jerbal wrote in a Red County post today that “The health and safety nazis at the Consumer Product Safety Commission have made it clear to the rabble that re-selling any children’s product that may have any lead in it is illegal and could end up with the offender being socked with a multi-million dollar fine.”

Does this red-faced pendejo know what lead does to children?  Let me preface this by saying that I am a certified Hazardous Waste Operations instructor.  I am also certified as a Lead Abatement project manager.  I know this topic very well.

But let’s see what our friends at the CDC (Center for Disease Control) have to say about lead poisoning in children: “Lead poisoning can affect nearly every system in the body. Because lead poisoning often occurs with no obvious symptoms, it frequently goes unrecognized. Lead poisoning can cause learning disabilities, behavioral problems, and, at very high levels, seizures, coma, and even death.”

Your body thinks that lead is calcium, so it gets stored in your bones, where your body makes blood cells.  Imagine what that does to your body over time.  Lead can also cause hearing loss and it can also collect in body tissues and organs.  You can excrete some lead through urine and the GA tract, but much of it stays in you forever.

And Jerbal is OK with selling toys tainted with lead to the working poor who shop at dollar stores. 

Jerbal also wrote “Who does this heavy dose of regulatory compassion hurt? Let’s see, there are those who try to stretch their household budgets by shopping at second-hand stores, which are also a large source of income for charitable organizations. Or folks trying to earn some extra money selling their stuff at garage sales.”

Jerbal wants to sell toxic toys to poor people.  Perhaps this is the latest Minuteman scheme to get rid of immigrants?

Or is Jerbal getting paid to shill for some damnable association of dollar stores that wants to poison our children?

This will only serve to prove that Republicans are heartless pigs.  And you have to wonder why a guy who wants to endanger children is serving on the Orange County Parks, Beaches and Harbors Commission.

Jerbal you need to apologize for this faux pas!

About Admin

"Admin" is just editors Vern Nelson, Greg Diamond, or Ryan Cantor sharing something that they mostly didn't write themselves, but think you should see. Before December 2010, "Admin" may have been former blog owner Art Pedroza.