It must be the heat!

Well, it is sure hot here in South Texas. Heat, too much of it, can cause one just to be cranky. ha. Well, I will lay it to that. I do prefer to write happy stuff.... I do! But here is another perhaps complainy one.

I have always been amazed at how easy the scamers get away with stealing from people. It runs rampant. I think it even is a part of the economic melt down we have been going through. It is because of greediness. It is also caused because people will tend to fall for anything. I like the axiom if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

We ought to be better at avoiding being taken. We really ought.

Now to what is rubbing me wrong today.

I have been listing to C-SPAN radio on my truck XM radio, lately mostly because I wanted to stay in tune with the questioning of the Supreme Court nominee. But today that was all gone, and there was a House committee, I think it was, questioning a panel on how to tighten the rules to stop scamers (that is my take of the reason, because that is what I was hearing, and it is what got my blood boiling - thinking of heat and air conditioning).

Here is what I heard from a representative for the FTC (Federal Trade Commission, I think). Someone asked him how long it would take putting a rule out that could enforce stopping people from scaming? Answer: ABOUT TWO YEARS! Yep, and while we are waiting for a rule, the scammers get rich!

That is what angers me. Apparently we think we have to have too many rules. Otherwise, somehow, we are mistreating even the mistreaters! Now isn't that a kick?

Why can't we just say it is wrong to cheat? If you do what we think is cheating, you are going to cease and desist until we can get a judge somewhere to validate what it is you are doing. Seems to me right and wrong ought to be pretty easy to figure out. Now, why can't we do that.

Here is the rest of it: No one, not one mentioned what I am saying. What I heard for a good while was just people giving speeches, going this way and that way. This left me to believe no one, not anyone at the Federal level is earning his or her keep on this question. Why, it will take them two years at least to finish the panel that was supposed to (I think) come to some conclusion that would either cause action on laws as now writing or come up with one that will.