http://www.cleveland.com/consumeraffairs/index.ssf/2012/04/kasich_signs_hb_275_-_ohios_co.html..... Damn it.
Let me explain this simply. Fly by night businesses are bastards and hard to catch. When one goes down, two more pop up, so you need extremely tough laws to beat the shit out of them, and then beat the shit out of them some more and just for good measure, beat the hell out of them a lil more. We're talking the people who never finish work they started, or take advantage of old people, or screw up so bad you have to sue them, or all of the above. And now, who is the state governor protecting: them.
Ohio now has some of the weakest consumer protection laws in the country. Damn it. What is wrong with these politicians? Why did they think the laws were written so strictly? Could it have been that there was a reason over 40 years of law were put in place?
Consumer protection law goes after con men and rip off artists, people who screw grandma and grandpa out of their life savings over junk, people who tell you they fix your car only to make it worse and more expensive for another mechanic to fix later.
Then of course, there's the fact that these people are professionals who have knowledge you don't that you rely upon. I shouldn't HAVE to try to figure out if the guy replacing my roof is out to screw me. I can't see up there easily, he can hide the shitty work he did under the shingles and actively conceal the problem until a rainstorm comes by when the whole damn thing leaks like hell.
No, screw it. If granny gets swindled by some slick salesman because she's old and frail and ends up with nothing, or if some con man contractor charges you for the privilege of ruining your roof rather than repairing it, you should be hosed.
Clearly, these are the "businesses" we should be changing decades of well established laws to protect, right? I guess corporations are people too, and as for the actual living people they screw over, well... .screw 'em. Granny should've known better than to hire someone without climbing up on her roof herself to check it in person.... And the trebble (triple) punishment damages and paying for the lawyer to go after these frauds.... Meh. Let 'em slide; not like we have to fund anything.... Because we all know the "Free market" with 0 regulation will fix all the billions of dollars in consumer fraud out there....
[massive sigh]
So basically it got incredibly hard to sue somebody in Ohio for ripping you off, cause the governor and legislature just put a poison pill into the law....
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Jail the poor
http://www.ohio.com/news/local/summit-county-to-crack-down-on-beggars-1.313226 ....
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http://ndagainst3.com/Honestly, I thought Ohio was progressively slow. Look at what North Dakota votes on tomorrow. I can't believe this is really happening in 2012.
North Dakota needs sanity! Tomorrow, June 12th, voters are voting on Measure 3:
■ Men could be allowed to marry girls, as young as 12, in the name of religion.
■ An employer could fire an unmarried pregnant woman simply because of the employer’s religious beliefs.
■ A man could claim domestic violence laws don’t apply to him because his religion teaches that a husband has the right to discipline his family, including his wife and children as he sees fit.
■ A parent who believes in faith healing could to deny critical medical treatment to a seriously ill child.
■ Simply put, people could break our laws in the name of religious freedom, including laws on non-discrimination, domestic violence and child abuse.
Lovely.... Tell me again how religion is repressed in the US? Better yet, don't....
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