| I have been doing a lot of research on regulatory | | | | cases to collect fees. Well if that is the method of the |
| bodies, including the FTC. Recently in the FTC's report | | | | Federal Trade Commission then it does not need a |
| on franchising 432-pages I noticed a some | | | | franchising division and all the rules on the books need |
| discrepancies, which were contrary to my personal | | | | to be gone through and most of them eliminated. We |
| knowledge and observation of the agency; specifically | | | | need to reduce the franchising regulation and receive |
| the franchising division.If the FTC is watching American | | | | new vigor and renaissance in Franchising, not stifling |
| Business, then who is watching the FTC? Some could | | | | and more minutia.You see law enforcement |
| say private sector attorneys and you can always fight | | | | experience means nothing when you abuse the power |
| the FTC, but even giants like Microsoft end up settling | | | | of the law. When you manipulate data to justify your |
| out of court, due to the cost of litigation these days. | | | | job or to help competitors in the market place which |
| The FTC can take away a million or even a billion | | | | are inferior, cannot compete fairly or just lack the |
| dollars of hard earned brand name value by | | | | human capital with any real intellectual capacity to do |
| grandstanding in the mass media and filing a case. | | | | business at the speed of thought. Promoting |
| What a complete sham? It costs too much to prove | | | | weakness in markets is unhealthy and to do so as |
| you are not guilty of violating something in the myriad | | | | part of law enforcement actions using methods of |
| of over regulation? Wow, is this the best the United | | | | abuses of power is not what I consider law |
| States of America, the greatest nation in the world | | | | enforcement experience, it would better described as |
| can do? Is this the best that the Federal Trade | | | | experience for the Gambino Family or Osama Bin |
| Commission, the darling of the Justice Department can | | | | Laden who attack freedom and free enterprise.We |
| do? Are you kidding me, that is it? That's all you got? | | | | need to downsize these agencies. Apparently the FTC |
| You could not be first picked on a third grade recess | | | | in our case has joined the ranks of those other |
| basketball team. Filing bogus cases and grandstanding | | | | agencies in their un-ethicalness. How many companies |
| to prove that you are doing your job and get next | | | | have they ruined and attacked? How many jobs have |
| years budget? Why?So you can employ more people | | | | been lost? How much opportunity has been missed? |
| in the Beltway? The unemployment rates there are so | | | | How many freedoms squandered? My thoughts are if |
| low you cannot even get a legal citizen to come mow | | | | people in these agencies have that much time on their |
| your lawn in Woodbridge, VA or Bethesda, MD. They | | | | hands to surf gay porn on the internet (yes there was |
| even had to import the DC Sniper from the other | | | | an article of this at the FTC in the Washington Post) |
| Washington, Washington State because all the locals | | | | and attack growing franchising companies like ours; . |
| are too busy working to go around shooting people, | | | | Then obviously they cannot allot the time to real issues, |
| well unless you are a US Marshall with road rage you | | | | which are parasites on our society, such as the Identity |
| open fire on a US Navy Sailor in the middle of traffic. | | | | Theft, AdWare, Phising, SpyWare and SPAM.I sit here |
| Does the government see what is happening here? | | | | as a fan of the FTC in their endeavors to fight fraud, |
| That their law enforcement officers cannot be | | | | crime, computer issues, but as a critic to their attacks |
| trusted? The FBI sting just caught four congressmen. | | | | on franchising and specifically the company I have |
| Another sting at the Arizona Border caught local police | | | | been building since age 12. There can be no excuse |
| and border patrol taking bribes to look the other way | | | | for these attacks, we will press on, but we can never |
| during illegal drug shipments. The problems are not in | | | | back down to the misrepresentation and illegitimate |
| the private sector, but since the FTC likes to point | | | | grandstanding at the FTC, it must stop and it must stop |
| fingers, it is time we point back.Can the Federal Trade | | | | now."Law Enforcement experience" does not include |
| Commission admit their faults so we can all move | | | | attacking innocent companies and individuals who are |
| forward for the betterment of country? For the | | | | dutifully exercising their right to free contract. Attacking |
| betterment of franchising, the best business model | | | | such individuals and companies for reasons other than |
| ever created? The Federal Trade Commission's law | | | | that which the law provides is abuse of power and |
| enforcement experience, if you really wish to call it that | | | | therefore criminal activity. This destroys the integrity of |
| in this report, is an embarrassment to the other law | | | | such an agency and it slaps in the face of the reason |
| enforcement agencies. Does the Federal Trade | | | | for forming the Federal Trade Commission in the first |
| Commission have any honest law enforcement | | | | place. It additionally undermines the entire mission of the |
| experience? If so one has to wonder.Obviously there | | | | Justice Department, which already has a black eye in |
| are some pretty unethical, unstable and questionable | | | | the minds of the people over the prevention of 9-11 |
| people working in many agencies in DC. Like the FBI | | | | and the patriot act, which followed. If an agency |
| agent who lied to get a conviction at the Martha | | | | cannot fulfill it's promise it need not bother to exist, for it |
| Stewart trial. The FBI agent who gave information to | | | | is a plague on civilization and a complete waste of tax |
| China through a sex slave, extra marital affair, girlfriend | | | | payers money.My recommendation is that the words |
| spy. How about those 13 LAPD cops who were | | | | and phrase "law enforcement experience" be stricken |
| robbing banks because they had to feed their six kids? | | | | from the franchise report and does not re-appear until |
| Remember recently the hiring of the foreigner to the | | | | which time the Federal Trade Commission has |
| NJ state homeland security committee in trade for gay | | | | admitted it's failures, apologized and learns what law |
| sex acts? And of course the Abu Grave prison sex | | | | enforcement experience is.The Federal Trade |
| scandal? We are always reading about Border Patrol | | | | Commission has made some huge errors. Should we |
| agents like the one caught as a part of a 15-ton drug | | | | in fact allow them to continue to referee the |
| shipment, working with a trucking company?How | | | | franchising industry, which is so important to jobs and |
| about the most recent telling quote of Elliot Spitzer | | | | economic vitality in this country. Can we trust an |
| saying he is going to drive a stake through the heart of | | | | agency, which misrepresents their experience, in this |
| businessman he has a personal vendetta against. | | | | case, "law enforcement experience" to moderate and |
| (Source WSJ). We know that no agency is perfect, as | | | | regulate franchising? It appears that in this regard the |
| they are made of imperfect people, but why must the | | | | Federal Trade Commission's Consumer Protection |
| Federal Trade Commission follow suit, in such unethical | | | | Division's Franchise Rule Group may in fact be unfit to |
| practice?We need to clean up government and | | | | lead. The truth must be heard, there is a legal and |
| eliminate the fraud, there is no fraud in franchising, The | | | | moral obligation. If we are going to continue to regulate |
| Federal Trade Commission needs to look in the mirror. I | | | | franchising, we must down size the regs to fit the level |
| cannot allow the phrase "law enforcement | | | | of oversight needed, to allow franchising to flourish. |
| experience" to be used in that report, without | | | | Think about it. A patriot and a gentleman always and |
| comment, that is a clear misrepresentation of an | | | | forever,Lance Winslow - Online Think Tank forum |
| agency which has already admitted that their purpose | | | | board. |
| is to watch trends in industries and if needed file court | | | | |