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Actual for You - Who is Watching the Regulators?
With ECO issues making the headlines in most countries around the world, often the finger can and should be pointed at the large multi-nationals we see on our high street.We have been in business for twenty three years, over the last decade we have witnessed large national companies abandoning the local businesses in favour of, again, larger national companies. This has a damaging effect on local economies in many ways.For example, a large supermarket arrives just outside of town. We must agree that they generate extra jobs for local people that work in the store, but this is where the benefit ends, in my mind.Local, traditional shops close, with the loss of employment.The supermarket DOES NOT interact with other members of the business community, for example, in recent weeks we have spoken to an electrician working on a bank in Eastbourne, he was sent down from the midlands to execute three hours work! what a ridiculous situation, traveling two h
I sit here as a fan of the FTC in their endeavors to fight fraud, crime, computer issues, but as a critic to their attacks on franchising and specifically the company I have been building since age 12. There can be no excuse for these attacks, we will press on, but we can never back down to the misrepresentation and illegitimate grandstanding at the FTC, it must stop and it must stop now.
“Law Enforcement experience” does not include attacking innocent companies and individuals who are dutifully exercising their right to free con
I well remember during my first working visit to Africa, nearly twenty years ago, that on discussing the visible corruption where I was working, a young African said to me, ‘but of course you don’t have any corruption in your country, do you?’ I gently told him, yes we do, but on the whole, there isn’t much publicity about such things.Now we are in the year 2005 with vastly expensive computer systems, layer upon layer of audit and inspection, risk management, good governance and compliance, not to mention Tony and Gordon, and waste, poor management and corruption have been minimized – haven’t they? Well if you have been on holiday on Mars for a while, you might think so, but those of us who operate at ground floor level know that this is just not the case.During the last eighteen months I have carried out several investigations relating to good governance, compliance and fraud. My work has highlighted how easy it is for public and voluntary bodies to become co
If the FTC is watching American Business, then who is watching the FTC? Some could say private sector attorneys and you can always fight the FTC, but even giants like Microsoft end up settling out of court, due to the cost of litigation these days. The FTC can take away a million or even a billion dollars of hard earned brand name value by grandstanding in the mass media and filing a case. What a complete sham? It costs too much to prove you are not guilty of violating something in the myriad of over regulation? Wow, is this the best the United States of America, the greatest nation in the world can do? Is this the best that the Federal Trade Commission, the darling of the Justice Department can do? Are you kidding me, that is it? That’s all you got? You could not be first picked on a third grade recess basketball team. Filing bogus cases and grandstanding to prove that you are doing your job and get next years budget? Why?
So you can employ more people in the Beltway? The unemployment rates there are so low you cannot even get a legal citizen to come mow your lawn in Woodbridge, VA or Bethesda, MD. They even had to import the DC Sniper from the other Washington, Washington State because all the locals are too busy working to go around shooting people, well unless you are a US Marshall with road rage you open fire on a US Navy Sailor in the middle of traffic. Does the government see what is happening here? That their law enforcement officers cannot be trusted? The FBI sting just caught four congressmen. Another sting at the Arizona Border caught local police and border patrol taking bribes to look the other way during illegal drug shipments. The problems are not in the private sector, but since the FTC likes to point fingers, it is time we point back.
Can the Federal Trade Commission admit their faults so we can all move forward for the betterment of country? For the betterment of franchising, the best business model ever created? The Federal Trade Commission’s law enforcement experience, if you really wish to call it that in this report, is an embarrassment to the other law enforcement agencies. Does the Federal Trade Commission have any honest law enforcement experience? If so one has to wonder.
Obviously there are some pretty unethical, unstable and questionable people working in many agencies in DC. Like the FBI agent who lied to get a conviction at the Martha Stewart trial. The FBI agent who gave information to China through a sex slave, extra marital affair, girlfriend spy. How about those 13 LAPD cops who were robbing banks because they had to feed their six kids? Remember recently the hiring of the foreigner to the NJ state homeland security committee in trade for gay sex acts? And of course the Abu Grave prison sex scandal? We are always reading about Border Patrol agents like the one caught as a part of a 15-ton drug shipment, working with a trucking company?
How about the most recent telling quote of Elliot Spitzer saying he is going to drive a stake through the heart of businessman he has a personal vendetta against. (Source WSJ). We know that no agency is perfect, as they are made of imperfect people, but why must the Federal Trade Commission follow suit, in such unethical practice?
We need to clean up government and eliminate the fraud, there is no fraud in franchising, The Federal Trade Commission needs to look in the mirror. I cannot allow the phrase “law enforcement experience” to be used in that report, without comment, that is a clear misrepresentation of an agency which has already admitted that their purpose is to watch trends in industries and if needed file court cases to collect fees. Well if that is the method of the Federal Trade Commission then it does not need a franchising division and all the rules on the books need to be gone through and most of them eliminated. We need to reduce the franchising regulation and receive new vigor and renaissance in Franchising, not stifling and more minutia.
You see law enforcement experience means nothing when you abuse the power of the law. When you manipulate data to justify your job or to help competitors in the market place which are inferior, cannot compete fairly or just lack the human capital with any real intellectual capacity to do business at the speed of thought. Promoting weakness in markets is unhealthy and to do so as part of law enforcement actions using methods of abuses of power is not what I consider law enforcement experience, it would better described as experience for the Gambino Family or Osama Bin Laden who attack freedom and free enterprise.
We need to downsize these agencies. Apparently the FTC in our case has joined the ranks of those other agencies in their un-ethicalness. How many companies have they ruined and attacked? How many jobs have been lost? How much opportunity has been missed? How many freedoms squandered? My thoughts are if people in these agencies have that much time on their hands to surf gay porn on the internet (yes there was an article of this at the FTC in the Washington Post) and attack growing franchising companies like ours; www.CarWashGuys.com . Then obviously they cannot allot the time to real issues, which are parasites on our society, such as the Identity Theft, AdWare, Phising, SpyWare and SPAM.
I sit here as a fan of the FTC in their endeavors to fight fraud, crime, computer issues, but as a critic to their attacks on franchising and specifically the company I have been building since age 12. There can be no excuse for these attacks, we will press on, but we can never back down to the misrepresentation and illegitimate grandstanding at the FTC, it must stop and it must stop now.
“Law Enforcement experience” does not include attacking innocent companies and individuals who are dutifully exercising their right to free con
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Can the Federal Trade Commission admit their faults so we can all move forward for the betterment of country? For the betterment of franchising, the best business model ever created? The Federal Trade Commission’s law enforcement experience, if you really wish to call it that in this report, is an embarrassment to the other law enforcement agencies. Does the Federal Trade Commission have any honest law enforcement experience? If so one has to wonder.
Obviously there are some pretty unethical, unstable and questionable people working in many agencies in DC. Like the FBI agent who lied to get a conviction at the Martha Stewart trial. The FBI agent who gave information to China through a sex slave, extra marital affair, girlfriend spy. How about those 13 LAPD cops who were robbing banks because they had to feed their six kids? Remember recently the hiring of the foreigner to the NJ state homeland security committee in trade for gay sex acts? And of course the Abu Grave prison sex scandal? We are always reading about Border Patrol agents like the one caught as a part of a 15-ton drug shipment, working with a trucking company?
How about the most recent telling quote of Elliot Spitzer saying he is going to drive a stake through the heart of businessman he has a personal vendetta against. (Source WSJ). We know that no agency is perfect, as they are made of imperfect people, but why must the Federal Trade Commission follow suit, in such unethical practice?
We need to clean up government and eliminate the fraud, there is no fraud in franchising, The Federal Trade Commission needs to look in the mirror. I cannot allow the phrase “law enforcement experience” to be used in that report, without comment, that is a clear misrepresentation of an agency which has already admitted that their purpose is to watch trends in industries and if needed file court cases to collect fees. Well if that is the method of the Federal Trade Commission then it does not need a franchising division and all the rules on the books need to be gone through and most of them eliminated. We need to reduce the franchising regulation and receive new vigor and renaissance in Franchising, not stifling and more minutia.
You see law enforcement experience means nothing when you abuse the power of the law. When you manipulate data to justify your job or to help competitors in the market place which are inferior, cannot compete fairly or just lack the human capital with any real intellectual capacity to do business at the speed of thought. Promoting weakness in markets is unhealthy and to do so as part of law enforcement actions using methods of abuses of power is not what I consider law enforcement experience, it would better described as experience for the Gambino Family or Osama Bin Laden who attack freedom and free enterprise.
We need to downsize these agencies. Apparently the FTC in our case has joined the ranks of those other agencies in their un-ethicalness. How many companies have they ruined and attacked? How many jobs have been lost? How much opportunity has been missed? How many freedoms squandered? My thoughts are if people in these agencies have that much time on their hands to surf gay porn on the internet (yes there was an article of this at the FTC in the Washington Post) and attack growing franchising companies like ours; www.CarWashGuys.com . Then obviously they cannot allot the time to real issues, which are parasites on our society, such as the Identity Theft, AdWare, Phising, SpyWare and SPAM.
I sit here as a fan of the FTC in their endeavors to fight fraud, crime, computer issues, but as a critic to their attacks on franchising and specifically the company I have been building since age 12. There can be no excuse for these attacks, we will press on, but we can never back down to the misrepresentation and illegitimate grandstanding at the FTC, it must stop and it must stop now.
“Law Enforcement experience” does not include attacking innocent companies and individuals who are dutifully exercising their right to free con
What is FHAFHA or Federal Housing Administration is a branch of HUD or Housing and Urban Development that works through local mortgage lending agencies to give Federal mortgage and loan insurance for those who wish to own a home or do home improvement projects.It is a government-own corporation that was established under the National Housing Act of 1934 to promote better housing standards and conditions.FHA aids first-time buyers and those who would probably not be able to pay the required down payment for conventional loans through insuring mortgage to private lenders. It also ensures loans for buying mobile or manufactured homes.It also assists in providing low-cost houses for rent through insuring loans land developers and builders who make or improve apartments and other multifamily housing developments.Generally, FHA aims to make available sufficient home financing system by providing insurance mortgages and to make the mortgage market
Obviously there are some pretty unethical, unstable and questionable people working in many agencies in DC. Like the FBI agent who lied to get a conviction at the Martha Stewart trial. The FBI agent who gave information to China through a sex slave, extra marital affair, girlfriend spy. How about those 13 LAPD cops who were robbing banks because they had to feed their six kids? Remember recently the hiring of the foreigner to the NJ state homeland security committee in trade for gay sex acts? And of course the Abu Grave prison sex scandal? We are always reading about Border Patrol agents like the one caught as a part of a 15-ton drug shipment, working with a trucking company?
How about the most recent telling quote of Elliot Spitzer saying he is going to drive a stake through the heart of businessman he has a personal vendetta against. (Source WSJ). We know that no agency is perfect, as they are made of imperfect people, but why must the Federal Trade Commission follow suit, in such unethical practice?
We need to clean up government and eliminate the fraud, there is no fraud in franchising, The Federal Trade Commission needs to look in the mirror. I cannot allow the phrase “law enforcement experience” to be used in that report, without comment, that is a clear misrepresentation of an agency which has already admitted that their purpose is to watch trends in industries and if needed file court cases to collect fees. Well if that is the method of the Federal Trade Commission then it does not need a franchising division and all the rules on the books need to be gone through and most of them eliminated. We need to reduce the franchising regulation and receive new vigor and renaissance in Franchising, not stifling and more minutia.
You see law enforcement experience means nothing when you abuse the power of the law. When you manipulate data to justify your job or to help competitors in the market place which are inferior, cannot compete fairly or just lack the human capital with any real intellectual capacity to do business at the speed of thought. Promoting weakness in markets is unhealthy and to do so as part of law enforcement actions using methods of abuses of power is not what I consider law enforcement experience, it would better described as experience for the Gambino Family or Osama Bin Laden who attack freedom and free enterprise.
We need to downsize these agencies. Apparently the FTC in our case has joined the ranks of those other agencies in their un-ethicalness. How many companies have they ruined and attacked? How many jobs have been lost? How much opportunity has been missed? How many freedoms squandered? My thoughts are if people in these agencies have that much time on their hands to surf gay porn on the internet (yes there was an article of this at the FTC in the Washington Post) and attack growing franchising companies like ours; www.CarWashGuys.com . Then obviously they cannot allot the time to real issues, which are parasites on our society, such as the Identity Theft, AdWare, Phising, SpyWare and SPAM.
I sit here as a fan of the FTC in their endeavors to fight fraud, crime, computer issues, but as a critic to their attacks on franchising and specifically the company I have been building since age 12. There can be no excuse for these attacks, we will press on, but we can never back down to the misrepresentation and illegitimate grandstanding at the FTC, it must stop and it must stop now.
“Law Enforcement experience” does not include attacking innocent companies and individuals who are dutifully exercising their right to free con
Businesses are opening at an ever expanding rate, making competition for customers fierce. In order to keep up with the demands in the world today new businesses need to keep in mind the importance of good communication. The most important piece of equipment you will purchase for your business is the phone.Even before a business opens its doors the phones should be up and running and all employees need to be familiar with their use. Depending on the size of the business you can decide first what type of service will be needed to maintain excellent communication service. You need to be sure the phone service is reliable and that all calls can be answered in a timely matter.For a small business you may only need a simple system. To start you will need at least three lines for calls. Two of the phone lines can be for use when answering the calls without a busy signal. The third telephone line should be installed for use with the fax machine.You will most li
You see law enforcement experience means nothing when you abuse the power of the law. When you manipulate data to justify your job or to help competitors in the market place which are inferior, cannot compete fairly or just lack the human capital with any real intellectual capacity to do business at the speed of thought. Promoting weakness in markets is unhealthy and to do so as part of law enforcement actions using methods of abuses of power is not what I consider law enforcement experience, it would better described as experience for the Gambino Family or Osama Bin Laden who attack freedom and free enterprise.
We need to downsize these agencies. Apparently the FTC in our case has joined the ranks of those other agencies in their un-ethicalness. How many companies have they ruined and attacked? How many jobs have been lost? How much opportunity has been missed? How many freedoms squandered? My thoughts are if people in these agencies have that much time on their hands to surf gay porn on the internet (yes there was an article of this at the FTC in the Washington Post) and attack growing franchising companies like ours; www.CarWashGuys.com . Then obviously they cannot allot the time to real issues, which are parasites on our society, such as the Identity Theft, AdWare, Phising, SpyWare and SPAM.
I sit here as a fan of the FTC in their endeavors to fight fraud, crime, computer issues, but as a critic to their attacks on franchising and specifically the company I have been building since age 12. There can be no excuse for these attacks, we will press on, but we can never back down to the misrepresentation and illegitimate grandstanding at the FTC, it must stop and it must stop now.
“Law Enforcement experience” does not include attacking innocent companies and individuals who are dutifully exercising their right to free con
Some of you may be too kind to say it. But I can tell you’re thinking, “I don’t know what you know about life, but I think you’ve learned a bit too much about Betty Crocker.”Yes, I’ve learned a great deal about Betty Crocker over the past forty-some years. I’ve sat at her table many times. But as much as I’ve learned ABOUT her, I’ve learned more FROM her!You’re probably thinking, “Yup, I knew it, you’ve finally gone off your rocker. Jean’s been creative one too many times! All she’s learned from Betty Crocker is how to gain weight!”Well, you’re wrong. And I’ll tell you why.Consider the simple box of Betty Crocker cake mix.You may think it’s only a cake mix with the instructions for baking a cake on the back. But when I pick up this box and read the back, I see instructions for living a successful life!First off at the top, before the four steps to making a cake, Betty Crocker tells me what ingredients I will need. This tells
I sit here as a fan of the FTC in their endeavors to fight fraud, crime, computer issues, but as a critic to their attacks on franchising and specifically the company I have been building since age 12. There can be no excuse for these attacks, we will press on, but we can never back down to the misrepresentation and illegitimate grandstanding at the FTC, it must stop and it must stop now.
“Law Enforcement experience” does not include attacking innocent companies and individuals who are dutifully exercising their right to free contract. Attacking such individuals and companies for reasons other than that which the law provides is abuse of power and therefore criminal activity. This destroys the integrity of such an agency and it slaps in the face of the reason for forming the Federal Trade Commission in the first place. It additionally undermines the entire mission of the Justice Department, which already has a black eye in the minds of the people over the prevention of 9-11 and the patriot act, which followed. If an agency cannot fulfill it’s promise it need not bother to exist, for it is a plague on civilization and a complete waste of tax payers money.
My recommendation is that the words and phrase “law enforcement experience” be stricken from the franchise report and does not re-appear until which time the Federal Trade Commission has admitted it’s failures, apologized and learns what law enforcement experience is.
The Federal Trade Commission has made some huge errors. Should we in fact allow them to continue to referee the franchising industry, which is so important to jobs and economic vitality in this country. Can we trust an agency, which misrepresents their experience, in this case, “law enforcement experience” to moderate and regulate franchising? It appears that in this regard the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Protection Division’s Franchise Rule Group may in fact be unfit to lead. The truth must be heard, there is a legal and moral obligation. If we are going to continue to regulate franchising, we must down size the regs to fit the level of oversight needed, to allow franchising to flourish. Think about it. A patriot and a gentleman always and forever,
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