CL, I know it's no joke and This is a serious thread. We do need to be aware of the dangers of what we work with. Geeze, what we don't need to do is get depressed over it and walk around with a sky is falling attitude. I'll leave that to the soccer moms.
Brett, what we need to do is use the chemicals and for that matter everything, responsibly. The last thing we need to do is get the government involved in anything. No matter who we elect, they become brain dead within a few weeks and together form the only group that really can screw up a wet dream and ask everyone else to pay for it!
I'll give a good example of our government at work. In the early days of HAM radio, serious armatures built their own equipment and knew what made the stuff tick. Many of the major breakthroughs in communications were due to HAM people, not the government, not private industry. The government split off the 11 meter band as a business band. They then made it a licensed business/personal civilian band. Later they made it an unlicensed private band and when some fool decided that truckers were nifty cowboys who rid the world of irritating speed traps, the frequency's went nuts. The governments solution....add another 17 channels for these idiots. When these filled with good buddy spouting, TV killing morons the government said....gee, we need a place for the nice CB'ers to go so they removed the code requirement for 2 meter.
Now we have 2 meter filled with the same idiots that can't find room to talk on CB anymore.
The Government needs to stay out of anything that requires more than a casual thought.
