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Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by TheImmaculateD1
I respectfully disagree.
The government is inspecting these places yearly, hopefully, usually less. There is very little actual protection for the public, but there is a restriction on who goes into business. Some of the best makers are run out of business by the government.
If there is a bad product, a rash, or a minor injury are going to be remedied by a civil suit, and poor reviews, and less customers. The government isn't likely to discipline a licensee for the occasional poor product or oversight, and if they do discipline them, it will be fines to the government, it won't help the consumer in any manner.
Surgeons? They need tight regulation and stiff penalties.
Colored Contacts at the Flea Market? What a waste of government time! Buyer Beware.
Massage? You ever hear of someone injured by a massage? It is either good or bad, free market will dictate.
What about making a contractor be licensed? Why? Isn't there already a building code and a building inspector to approve the work? Redundant!
What about a landscaper? To mow lawns in my town takes 3 licenses (city, county, state), liability insurance, worker's comp coverage, a FEIN#, a filing with the State Div of Corps, and God-forbid you want to use a name other than your own. That is an additional 2 filings for fictitious names. Now, if you pay someone else to help you, you have invited in the IRS, Dept of Labor, OSHA, and others. Now suppose you hauled off some yard waste, you need a permit for hauling, a commercial license, an approval from EPA and DEP depending on where you dispose it.
And we wonder why more people don't go into business? And I typed this quickly, I'm sure I haven't hit upon everything. This is no exaggeration, in fact, this is a conservative account of what I went through to haul a trailer around and mow lawns and build privacy fences a few years ago.
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by mastahunta
yeah it was a buying opportunity for obama and the lefties who bought gm,chrysler,fanny and freddy
and and solyndra and lightsquared and the billions still being thrown at green CORPORATIONS.
yeah those evil righties BS.edit on 4-10-2011 by neo96 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by mastahunta
See, you just engage in wild accusations and inflammatory thinking that have no basis in reality. Tea Partiers know that govt bureaucracy means waste and fraud on the taxpayer dime.
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by mastahunta
yeah it was a buying opportunity for obama and the lefties who bought gm,chrysler,fanny and freddy
and and solyndra and lightsquared and the billions still being thrown at green CORPORATIONS.
yeah those evil righties BS.edit on 4-10-2011 by neo96 because: (no reason given)
I think I heard somewhere that OBama owns stock in one of those companies...
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by mastahunta
How come Barney Frank, who was Congressional oversight of Fannie and Freddie said everything was okie Doke? Oh yah and Barney and BO were on the take with donations to campaigns.
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
reply to post by neo96
Frank was ordered to remain complicit but when TSHTF he reversed the course and went against the banks.
You are a paid shill and I am a free thinking and free American. Typical GOP plan, attack and demonize that of which you cannot control. Don't reply to me unless you can compose an original thought!edit on 4-10-2011 by TheImmaculateD1 because: (no reason given)