Legislation I Can Get Behind

[Hobbit]

Should The U.S. Impose Limits On Incredibly Stupid Shit?

WASHINGTON, DC—With national stupid-shit consumption at an all-time high and federal shit projections indicating sharply rising levels of stupidity over the next decade and a half, a small but vocal group of lobbyists has revived an old debate on Capitol Hill, calling for strict, federally mandated limits on incredibly stupid shit.

Though every previous congressional effort to curb incredibly stupid shit has met with failure, the sheer size of the current U.S. shit industry, combined with the unmitigated stupidity of most of the shit it produces, has once again raised the question: Should the U.S. impose limits on incredibly stupid shit?

"The manufacture, marketing and distribution of stupid, worthless shit is an unfortunate but unavoidable reality of any modern industrialized nation. Nonetheless, the problem has gotten way out of hand here in America," said C. Brian Mattson, a member of the Commerce Department's Advisory Board On Stupid, Really Stupid & Incredibly Stupid Shit, testifying before Congress Monday. "The time has come to face facts: Without some sort of cap on America's unchecked stupid-shit production, we face a crisis of diminished intelligence within the national discourse that threatens to bury our society under a tidal wave of crap the likes of which the world has never seen."

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=3524

 

[dmp]

Lmao Nice!

 

[archangel]

"Incredibly stupid shit"...refers to all those cheapo plastic products found in discount giants stores produced in China...and eventually wind up at "Dollar Tree" stores...so much for free trade under Nafta and Cafta...we send them all our quality products and beef and veggies...and in return we get poor quality products,veggies grown in third world countries with little taste... and tough beef all at a discount price...what a great trade system we have...

 

[no1tovote4]

Standing in opposition to Brownback and others is the San Francisco-based group Citizens For Federal Shit Limits, which is calling for stricter federal regulation of incredibly stupid shit. Formed in May 1998 after the so-called "shocked and amazed lady" from "that one psychic-phone-line commercial" also started appearing in late-night ads touting an exciting new way to save big money on your phone bill—a "crisis moment" that served as "a major wake-up call" to anti-stupid-shit activist groups throughout the nation—Citizens for Federal Shit Limits estimates that U.S. shit is 65 percent stupider than in 1980.

I never thought I would agree with a San Fran based group on anything!