And next: A Fine Print Czar
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:
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.
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.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
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DAISNAID. Typical.
It doesn’t matter look at the fine print that came with Odopey. ignored! and it was in BOLD FONT Black and White.
They should follow congress’s example and just put in placeholders. Certainly assurances to consumers that a proper plan will be put in place is all they will ever need. /sar
Will their office be on the same floor as the Ministry of Silly Walks?
WTH? How about a Read the Friggin’ Bill Czar?
Why do you laugh? Megalomania isn’t all that funny in real life. It won’t be long before he appoints a bathroom czar to oversee a bureaucracy assigned to make sure you don’t leave the water running while you’re brushing.
Obama is on a roll. He won’t stop until he is another Chavez. He wants the government (himself) to control every aspect of our lives; Constitution be gone. Start a crisis or problem, and have them in D.C. “solve it”. Perhaps we’ll have goverment credit cards soon. I’m waiting for the day he and the “elites” go after the MSM to control them. ABC news approved by a czar.
Unless you’re selling Cheerios – then the Fine Print is Too Big.
God help you if you use more than one square of toilet tissue per visit.
too late they are all but being run by the administration…ABC the All Barack channel doesn’t say a bad word about him and trashes anyone that even remotely disagrees with dear leader….spew the party line and never ever do any investigative reporting unless it sides with dear leader….
*Fine Print* This bill and everything else hussein and the left in congress does is exempt from any of the rules the peons of this country and the right are subject to.
How about a government Czar? One that can rule over Congress, the courts, and the Presidency. That way, fine print would not matter. Just have a decider.
Instead of Czar we could call it….how about Dictator? How about using Sotomayor? She is a wise Latina woman that knows it all.
OK whats next a Fecal Analysis Czar?
I agree graysonret, this man intends to take control of every aspect of lives AND he intends to do it during his entire lifetime.
This country is going to explode with anger @ THE ONE and his policies at some point. It just remains to be seen how far they will be pushed by Barry Soetero until masses of people say THATS ENOUGH!!
Like Rush said today, Obama intends to get a third term. It just remains to be seen how he goes about it because once he gets three he is Castro, Chavez, Ahmadinajad, Putin, Lil Kimmmy,, etc., etc and will try to rule forever.
Somehow, I doubt they will stop at “credit cards and mortgages” and go after pretty much everything. Wireless, car loans, cable companies, and any other company/industry that gives too much money to Republicans.
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.
This is not an idle musing. It is in his character to attempt to force us to live according to what he thinks best. He honestly believes he knows what that is, and that makes him very dangerous. He is a true believer, not just a charlatan out for his own aggrandizement like Clinton. Clinton could always be trusted to do what was best for his political survival. Obamachev isn’t worrying about political survival, he’s trying to enforce his vision of the universe on everyone.
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.
Who wishes to comply with Obama’s policies? He hasn’t got the authority to do the things he’s doing.
he can suck eggs if he wants me to get an “energy rating” for my home, and all this other b.s.
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.
Ah! But you missed the loophole! Congress can’t run afoul of “fine print” laws if there is no print in the first place. No one in Congress reads the bills to be voted on so who knows for sure that the bill is even in writing?
Those ridiculous contracts protect businesses and consumers.
What is truly ridiculous is the image of endless cubicles manned by government geeks reading all the contracts in America. Well, there’s your stimulus jobs.
And it’s just not fair? How do you feel about it? Are we having a bad day? Have a tissue.
The Operahization of America and that really irritating song years ago “Feelings”. These people need to get to a doctor and see if they qualify for a spinal implant.
Perhaps if we give to the collective according to our ability the collective will give to us according to our need. Well monitored government sponsored telephones, wireless and internet service? Yes Comrade Karl, we are ready to pave the streets in gold. That’s fair.
Is there fine print on Charmin?
Barry Soetoro…the incredible talking Anus In Chief.
The fine print wont be necessary under SoetoroCare however. There are only two choices: “surgery or the painkillers.”
Right?
When will this incompetence end? Our elected officials are becoming more dangerous, than Osama bin Laden could ever hope to be. He will just have to sit back in his caves and wait for America’s demise, because the Harvard and Yale “know it all’s” are doing the deed for him.
Take note, Washington! A big storm is coming! We know you don’t care about America…but We do.
How ironic, bear! I was just thinking how Obama is always talking out his a$$. I hope his mouth is writing a check his a$$ can’t cash…but you never know. We need to educate the “glossy-eyed” idiots who voted for him, and his “America is evil” message.
All this from the Lord of Hypocrisy, Barack Obama…oh great…/sarc
I just don’t have a sense of humor left anymore! It’s just not funny it’s truly ridiculous and scary!
If it wasn’t so sad and so scary, this would actually be funny.
The guy who crowed about the supposed transparency his office would provide, who won’t prove he is even eligible to sit in the chair he occupies, who rams legislation through Congress without providing the time he said he would and jams through bills so big and in such a short time that no one could POSSIBLY read them nevermind understand is going to make US businesses be more transparent and easier to understand?
Seriously?
I’d make some reference to pots and kettles calling each other names but then LGM would likely have a stroke from my supposed RAAAACISM!
Transparency doesn’t apply to PO
TUS… the messiah is without sin.*Forget the fine print, just declare open season on lawyers!
Well, actually, it kinda sounds like there’s only the painkillers. Surgery won’t be an option if you don’t fit the “right” demographic.
Until tehre are no more drug companies left to make the painkillers, that is.
STOP!!!! 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.
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 (Obama voters) can not tell unless it is specifically spelled out for them.
Is it an express or implied warranty. Remember tv commercials that always ended with the announcer making the speed talk disclaimer at the end.
Obama is not only a traitor to the Constitution, but also a traitor to humanity. Audacious in his arrogance, and duplicitous in his deception.
In my entire life, I have never truly been afraid of my own government, until now.
The Kenyan can KMA. I’m not reading the fine print ever. He sucks, that’s the only fine print I need to know.
no but there is this…
http://www.jeremyinc.com/images/BarackObamaToiletPaper2.JPG
Great, then they’ll impose a cap and trade scheme to tax emissions over a certain level of courics.
Obama is pressing hard, because he only has four or five months to get his major agenda items passed. Once we are within a year of the 2010 eection, the electorate will remember anything done after November of this year.
That’s when those in elective peril get weak knees. Obama can’t get his agenda done in that climate. So we have to break his full court press for the next few months until we get into the election season.
Does he already have a lightbulb czar, or is that next?
Perhaps this will help him:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=hj111-5
Classic Orwellian deceptive name, considering that what we really need is financial protection from our own government.
So now that they have mandated the type of lightbulbs we may use in our homes and NATIONALIZED our homes via the Waxman-Markey bill they are going to mandate the size of the letters on our private contracts too.
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.”
Before they are done we are going to long for the good old days of Jimmy Carter…
Every day, this administration reminds me more and more of Atlas Shrugged.
I’ve lost count. Does anyone know how many new agencies Obama has created so far?
How about a count of the czars that the “Czar of czars” controls who are completely unaccountable to Congress or to the civic-minded citizens of this Country? (Sorry, sometimes I alliterate when I’m angry.)
Lets see..
Department of Progressive Education (DOPE)
Department of Hope (D’OH)
Department of Undocumented Mexican People (DUMP)
To name a few…
mattsand said:
Just wait until no one wants to buy cars from Government Motors. Then we’ll see them call for an “Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Act” to restrict competition and force us to buy over-priced and undersized cars from GM. They’ll also require us to buy green technology from government subsidized companies like GE. The name of the act will be different because they’ll call it something more Orwellian, like “The Endangered Enterprise and Responsible Purchasing Act.”
If you don’t believe me, let me remind you of what Obama named his first budget – the largest budget ever with the biggest deficit ever:
Could there be anything more Randian or Orwellian than that?
Not to mention expecting everyone to buy into their “healthcare” and “climate change” scams.
These people make Madoff look like a choir boy!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Try and imagine Jeanne Garafolo, Michael Moore and Sean Penn running the Federal Government. That’s exactly how it’s being run right now.
New York and California are bankrupt. You know…the same two states, along with other northeast accomplices, who have given us the insane socialists in Washington. Now those insane socialists are giving us the same bankruptcy plan as Mexifornia and New York have implemented.
The irony is that the insane socialists who voted for the other insane socialists are too insane to realize what the insane socialists are doing to this country.
We’re pretty much screwed!
It would be nice to get a complete list of Czars that he has appointed. All of my research shows anywhere from 12 to 18 but every list is different and not being a great reporter, I know not which one to trust and unfortunately, even the white house site seems to obscure any real look into this.
Just mind your P&Qs and get back to work. There’s no need for you to be counting Czars when there are taxes to be
confiscateddonated to The Cause…Chop chop.I’ve anointed myself the Czar of: Chop chop.
That is my great worry and fear-will it end? Do we have one more election to stop them? Will there be some great “Man Made Disaster” that allows He Who Has Come to declare a State of Emergency? Will The One invoke the Patriot Act and resisters start to disappear? Take away just a few and many more surrender in fear. Czars, Kamp Kamanders, Special Enforcement Officers, Emergency Peoples Courts, Civilian Security Services–the Night of the Long Knives becomes more possible, more probable.
When will this incompetence end? When we are sufficiently submissive and resistance is no longer an issue? When the last Unrepentant Capitalist marches into the camps? When wealth is returned to it’s rightful owners and that Bill of Negative Rights no longer hinders Dear Leader?
Yes America, IT can happen here. “There is no shortage of piano wire or meat hooks to hang them on” Reinhard Heydrich.
How ’bout the fine print in government…as the example of the Great and wonderful Cap and Trade down in the fine print we who own homes would NOT be allowed to sell with out the blessing of the EPA?….who’s Cap and what Trade?…lies all the fine print one could ever want is from (our?) own government
AZ et al.: Then let’s get organized now.
Here’s a good place to start: 9/12 March on DC
Actually, I kind of like the idea of warning labels on all politicians:
Warning: Electing this person may be dangerous to your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Of course it took them 143 pages of fine print to warn us about fine print.
You know…for a bunch of greenie, eco-zealots, this administration sure disposes of a lot of trees in order to print their commandments.
…that will ballon to another 1000 pages no one will read, sheesh.
By God, truth is stranger then fiction.
I have already “donated” 110 acres because my father was inconsiderate enough to have a heart attack and living “green” off the grid with nothing but solar and wind power would have made me a “criminal” guilty of elder abuse for the crime of taking my father home after his heart attack.
I went Galt shortly after that. You want me, bring some shorts, mosquito repellent and enough money for beer and you can find me here in the Philippines.
Taxes? I live on less than 200 bucks a month as a rule. It serves me well now but when “imputed” taxes become the rule of law, I may become John Galt V (As in V for Vendetta) and take it to the next level but I am still praying it does not come to that.
Now about those Czars?
Anybody got an accurate accounting anywhere? Chap? Rags?
Same old crap from Big Zero; “Good for thee, but not for me!”
There ya go Michelle. You can just use this as a cun n paste source for countless future blog posts.
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I really wish there was at least one chance for edits.
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Yes… I know.. thnx… but sometimes, I am in a hurry. A lot of work has to be done to make enough money to pay all these NJ taxes.
Been unemployed for three months now with job opps falling off to near zero since mid May. Can I bring the dog?
didn’t I just post a comment?
Heck yeah! Never trust a person who does not like dogs … but more importantly, never trust a person your dog does not like.
The dog may be quarantined for a bit but should not be an issue.
While this may be a bad place to say it … and may our Gracious Hostess forgive me … I can even show you how to earn enough money online to survive. If you have decent computer skills, perhaps a bit more … but the point is you can do that work here without a working visa.
Sign me John Galt V
Heard on the news this morning that the FDA is seeking to ban painkillers containing acetominophen (specifically 2 like ‘V!kodin’ & ‘Purkosette’).
There goes Obama’s white trash constituency!
On June 30th, 2009 at 9:00 pm, T-Bone said: …
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 (Obama voters) can not tell unless it is specifically spelled out for them.
Actually it goes deeper. They want to regulate Tylenol, because acetominaphin is contained in other OTC meds which some people take all at the same time. Sooo, the feds are going to try to regulate stupidity.
Isn’t that kinda like the blind leading the blind? Or Obamachev leading Barney Frankasaurus?
My husband works in the medical field and he commented–”oh great. Now we’ll have all the patients trying to stockpile.”