In the irony of the ages, the Arizona attorney general has developed a division called "Fraud Fighters." Its mission is to warn consumers about scams being perpetrated on the poor, unsuspecting public. That's right, you and I are being scammed with yet another governmental boondoggle rich in high-rolling bureaucrats, regulators and paper pushers falling all over themselves to hide the fact that governments themselves are the coolest, slipperiest scam artists of all time.
For instance, the federal government alone doles out untold trillions of TARP funds to sycophants of the Obama administration, while the Federal Reserve continues to print worthless Monopoly money in staggering amounts. Since the beginning of the Obama administration, the U.S. national debt has been increasing by an average of more than $4 billion per day. The interest paid by the government on that debt in 2010 alone was a shocking $413 billion. President Bush is blameworthy enough, but this administration has the dubious distinction of accumulating more debt than the first 42 U.S. presidents combined. And the $200 billion taxpayer bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is arguably the biggest government corruption scandal in our nation's history.
If you take a look at AG Tom Horne's website, you'll find 26 satellite offices mapped out in his kingdom that duplicate services and provide cushy jobs for lawyers-in-training. It even boasts of a "fraud fighter van" you pay for that travels the counties disseminating literature and fighting crime like a superhero. As a matter of fact, the research page on the site lists no less than 27 additional government agencies in the same line of business who can help root out fraud, consumer crime and predatory lending, plus the pitfalls of "life care planning."
What they are determined not to tell you is that the primary scam citizens need to be warned about is the growing threat of Total Government.
PJ O'Malley
Mesa
Rich posted at 6:07 pm on Thu, Dec 1, 2011.
Our AG can't trade stock because he was a scammer. I'd be careful, the van may be worse than the scammer you're reporting to it.
Abstract01 posted at 11:25 pm on Fri, Dec 2, 2011.
I don't know that you have any reason to be upset by the "Fraud Fighters". The Arizona attorney general is just following the example of the federal government. Had you written a protest against President Obama, you could have said the same things about his subrosa committees and the many czars that he has appointed; down to and including a fancy bus!
truth posted at 10:29 am on Sat, Dec 3, 2011.
The $ 700 trillion tarp money was requested by Bush and received by Bush. But the Republicans want to blame the Democrats, Bush could have vetoed as he had done for two years but did not. and yes their is nothing but corruption in Wahington and the problem will not be solved if we keep blaming only one side blame both. By the way have you heard of Arizona's secret corporate tax ? Major corporations pay a flat tax of $50.00 a year and where does Arizona's economy rate with the rest of the country ?