Truth in advertising
I know that the conservatives do not want anyone in government to interfere into how to run a business, or how far business can go to outsmart customers.
Let the buyer beware, has been their rule since Herbert Hoover.
But those old conservative icons are outdated by television, the Internet, e-mail, postal flyers, incessant newspaper ads, and slick highly trained Madison Avenue types. Nixon hired some of those.
Car ads are now particularly bad: "only $199 per month for 48 months and you can drive a car!"
No talk or even fine print about what happens after 48 months, and even if it dis say that, people aren't worried about what happens after 48 months.
One ad today for cars said: "we can't tell you the actual price of these cars because they would all be gone before you could get here!"
I thought that was the idea.
About the same set-up as payday loans.
Oxycontin just got fined for saying it was not addictive when they released the drug. Doesn't help those addicted very much. They admitted that they knew then!
I would suggest that all the executives involved be forcibly addicted, then turn them loose with no prescriptions. Kinda like Rush Limbaugh.
I won't even get into diet plans, headache pills, headons, scooters, hair growing medicine, cancer curing hospitals, and on and on and on.
Do you know a way to protect the ignorant and hopeless from such skulduggery?
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