It's as I have always said: government really does not exist to serve you; it exists to $erve it$elf and other special intere$ts. Yes, they do provide some services because if they provided none at all we would get rid of them in a second.
"DAs continued to use controversial debt-collection companies" by Colman M. Herman | Globe Correspondent, November 17, 2013
Six Massachusetts district attorneys, who announced in February that they had discontinued the use of unlicensed debt collectors to extract money from bad-check writers, did not completely shut down the controversial programs for up to three more months.
Up until May, most of the alleged bad-check writers already in the system continued to be dunned by private debt-collection companies using mock stationery carrying the signatures and official seals of the district attorneys. In January, the state banking commissioner, David Cotney, had said in a meeting with most of the district attorneys that the companies they had hired were improperly operating without a license and that their practices did not comply with the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act, according to the district attorneys.
When the Globe asked the six district attorneys why they continued to process cases in the face of their illegality, only two addressed why the practice continued so long....
Consumer advocates questioned how the prosecutors could allow the companies — Corrective Solutions and BounceBack — to continue operating on their behalf when their activities had been deemed illegal....
Because this greedy, money-grubbing government cares MORE ABOUT MONEY than they do you!
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Related: Sunday Globe Special: Bounced Check
