The European Union is fining yet another American Company that it cannot compete with. Why? Because this time Microsoft has just become too efficient in its operating systems. The Computer companies of the EU will not seem to get off their rears to build a better system or better features for personal computers and small business work stations. But why is the European Union even bothering to attack Bill Gates and Microsoft? Well it is simple; the EU is following the lead of the Federal Trade Commission or FTC. I liken this agency to the Federal Terrorist Commission, which attacks the winners of free markets. The FTC claims that they are indeed protecting consumers from predatory marketing practices and Monopolies, yet in reality their rules and regulations along with other over bearing regulatory bodies, which have no real clue as to how free markets work, are in the very agencies and reasons why Monopolies form in the first place. What does all this say about the United States Government and their over regulation on business? Well it shows us that rather than protecting the people, government's number one responsibility, the government is forcing companies to outsource to foreign lands and off shore their companies. We now see that our own government is attacking American Companies and encouraging other nations to attack them as well. In doing this; the even more corrupt foreign regulatory bodies are using these excuses as a way to curtail US based companies and use Machiavellian style tactics to protect their own companies. This means higher trade deficits, less American business being done and that hurts America, worse than any other International Terrorist element. I therefore move that we change the name of the Federal Trade Commission to the Federal Terrorist Commission, because they are the ones who started all this against Microsoft for giving me the consumer a free web browser bonus as part of their bundling package and operating system. Personally I would rather have Bill Gates running the World than these blobs of bureaucracies attacking the efficiencies of our free markets. Look what the Federal Trade Commission has started this time. Can't they do anything right? Of course not, as what can we expect from these blobs of bureaucracy or the copies of them overseas? Consider this opinion in 2006. |
