<![CDATA[Presidential Proclamation: It's Consumer Protection Week - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[Presidential Proclamation: It's Consumer Protection Week - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[Presidential Proclamation: It's Consumer Protection Week]]> I second that motion Keter.

Holden Caulfield

]]> <![CDATA[Presidential Proclamation: It's Consumer Protection Week]]> Irony at its finest. Another wonderful example of "we're not going to do anything about this problem, so we'll have an 'awareness week' about it."

So...how about we hold our own 'awareness week' -- a freedom protection week during which citizens are urged to learn more about:

+ the many frauds perpetrated on them by their elected officials and

+ the selling out of their reputation and economic strength to special interests and foreign goverments through abusive (to US citizens) trade policies and immigration non-enforcement and

+ how to take proactive steps to put a stop to these crimes.

Keter

]]> <![CDATA[Presidential Proclamation: It's Consumer Protection Week]]> Shouldn't this be the week when we are protected from misleading advertising, decieving sales material and packaging, price-fixing and lock-in?

r3m0t

]]> <![CDATA[Presidential Proclamation: It's Consumer Protection Week]]> Timmus: they'd also implement harsh penalties for abuse of credit report info by scam artists and inaccuracies by companies, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting.

FLConsumer

]]> <![CDATA[Presidential Proclamation: It's Consumer Protection Week]]> During National Consumer Protection Week, citizens are urged to learn more about the risks of fraud and identity theft and take precautions to protect themselves from these crimes.

Er, this should be an all-year thing. In fact if the government was half serious about minimizing identity theft, they'd mandate free access to our own credit report ALL THE TIME, not just a ceremonial inspection once a year.

timmus

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viriiman

]]> <![CDATA[Presidential Proclamation: It's Consumer Protection Week]]> Wow, I feel safer already!

FLConsumer

]]> <![CDATA[Presidential Proclamation: It's Consumer Protection Week]]> Avoiding fraud, is that anything like not being taken in by faulty intelligence?

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