"Honest labeling"?  ---  If you think the labeling bill is so dishonest, work to change the language.  You are in the same position Representative Burgess was in expressed in a former post.  Instead of supporting COOL, you make a strawman, just as you did with home whittled toys.  You are against COOL because you happen to believe our government is protecting us, we should trust them, and all goods from other countries have the same safety standards as we do (you know ours has faults).

If our regulatory agencies are not going to do their job and protect the people, the people have the right to know if their goods are coming from other countries so they can look out for their own safety.  This trusting the government to do it has shown to be a failure because, as is often repeated, we have an incompetent and corrupt government.  It is a government that is willing to reduce its responsibilities in order to have cheaper goods, a government that will use fear as a tactic to increase its power and reduce the rights of citizens in our democracy, and one who will sell out real democracies like Taiwan.  

I hate to say this, mrj, but I think you are just a country bumpkin.  Nothing derogatory because you are from the country, but you fit well with the regulatory bumpkins and political bumpkins we have today.  They will bend over backwards for a company (investors) to make money, and do little to protect the public from frauds.  Thus, they are legalizing frauds and injustice in the name of corporate profits.

If you had real reasons and real arguments that made sense, I would just argue it out with you and we would both have a better understanding of each other's views.  When you use strawmen and other rhetorical tools to win your points instead of logic or reasoning, I have to categorize you as I do.