I don’t know about you, but the idea of anyone in Washington fuming about fine print while they ram thousand-page bills through Congress that no one bothers to read is, well, triple-snort-worthy:
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President Barack Obama asked Congress on Tuesday to create a new agency to police the fine print on consumer products like credit cards and mortgages and determine what fees, penalties and interest rates are fair.
The Consumer Financial Protection Agency would be in charge of regulating those products in the same way other government agencies regulate the safety of drugs, food and toys.
Obama said Americans are demanding it. “Those ridiculous contracts with pages of fine print that no one can figure out—those things will be a thing of the past,” the president said in a statement accompanying the 152-page draft bill. “And enforcement will be the rule, not the exception.”
…Under the plan, lenders would be required to be up front about their products and compare them to less risky, “plain vanilla” options. The agency potentially could require a kind of warning label on such financial products as mortgages with payments that suddenly balloon in size.
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They’re going to require companies to be “up front about their products” while they themselves continue to defy transparency, cut backroom deals, and stuff middle-of-the-night amendments into their fraudulent legislative packages.
How about a
Read the Friggin’ Bill Czar ?
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There ought to be a law that says a congressman/woman cannot vote on any legislation unless 60% are willing to sign legal affidavits swearing under penalty of law that they have read and understand whatever piece of legislation they intend to vote on, and the other congresscritters should be made to swear they’ve at least read the legislation in its entirety (without necessarily understanding it).
If that can’t be sworn to, no one has any business voting, and if they can’t vote often enough they have no business being an elected official! Most of those thieves don’t have the moral and/or ethical makeup to be an elected official at any level of guvmint anyway.
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It won’t be long before they appoint a bathroom czar to oversee a bureaucracy assigned to make sure you don’t leave the water running while you’re brushing... & God help you if you use more than one square of toilet tissue per visit.
I recognize the duplicity as outlined, however I like the idea that fine print on the part of businesses will be examined. It would be nice if the fine print you find on over the counter medicine on line, in large type. Same thing for credit card companies. Put the fine print on line, in large type.
And, as for the Government, they should do it, too. Put whatever it is they are doing online, in large print. Avoid asking of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. Be consistent and don’t be a hypocrite.
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police the fine print on consumer products like credit cards and mortgages and determine what fees, penalties and interest rates are fair.
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You know, a few months ago I read
Atlas Shrugged for the first time. Could I have picked a better time period in which to read it? This nut (who gives the stink to anyone he doesn’t like or that questions him) really
believes he thinks he knows what’s best for the country.
Obama believes he knows whats best and so do all liberals. They fall over themselves trying to approve of his policies. They don’t even stop to think first anymore. See Bob Beckel on Hannity about the Ricci decision when he said ” well, they way you put it is discrimination.”
Of course it is. It always was. You just can’t see it clearly in your zealotry.
The reason they have the fine print is because government requires it, it protects them from frivolous lawsuits, and because the packaging is so small to reduce costs that they must print tiny to get all the required language on there. They have to ’splain to people that this anal product is not good to ingest by mouth and that this oral medication is not good inserted bottom up. Some morons can not tell unless it is specifically spelled out for them.
Remember tv commercials that always ended with the announcer making the speed talk disclaimer at the end.
There are too many government agencies now. If they were creating an agency that could teach and enforce COMMON SENSE and RESPONSIBILITY, I might be in favor of that. Then you could eliminate 95% of the agencies we now have. But that ain’t gonna happen.
I can see it now. The 1500 page government bill mandating that all new private contracts be printed in concise and easy to read forms and formats on 100% recycled paper with soy ink and will specify the acceptable typeface and font size, the number of words per sentence and paragraph, the reading level and the number of characters per word and even the words that can or can’t be used in the document will be printed in a 4 point san serif font written in mumbo jumbo that even government lawyers find incomprehensible.
They will hail it as a major breakthrough for the few workers who actually still have a job. Welcome to the “worker’s paradise.”
Ha. Ha. Ha.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/30...ne-print-czar/
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