One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.
I'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service.
Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
If you think you know the consumer better than anyone, then you're in real trouble. So we take a close watch. You spend time in stores.
A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
Government is the only industry in which we don't have a choice. If you live somewhere, you belong to that government. So we get bad service for high prices. This doesn't have to be.
Ironically, one of the clearer threats to consumer privacy is the government's largely unchecked ability to collect your sensitive information without due process.
Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.