FTC vs. Skechers: Overhyped Meets Overkill

Townhall.com ^ | May 20. 2012 | Debra J. Saunders

[PLMerite]

“I don’t believe Sketchers held a gun to their heads and demanded that they buy the shoes.”

So if GM says one of their cars gets 95mpg and when you buy it your copy only gets 30mpg, is that okay ?

[trebb]

Then don’t buy ‘em. I don’t understand why anyone would fall for an advertisement as ridiculous as that Sketcher promise anyway

Yep - dumb to expect a shoe to make you stronger/healtheir. Only two questions about buiyng shoes: Are they comfortable and do they not look too bad...

[Reeses]

Due to flat budget funding about half of the FTC’s funding now comes from fines. They target successful companies that have concentrated amounts of cash to confiscate. It’s extortion. Chinese and other foreign companies are ignored because courts can’t order the seizure of their cash. It’s all about sucking wealth out of the US economy to waste on government hirelings.

[loveliberty2]

Questions:

Might citizens have a reasonable case for charging that the FTC is guilty of making "unfounded claims" that it, in fact, protects citizens?

What ever happened to the ancient adage, "buyer beware"?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Evidently Skechers USA, Inc. didn’t donate enough to Obama’s reelection campaign.

[1010RD]

That's the danger. Do Gooders forget that government isn't neutral and never can be. Government by its nature is political and always will be.