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Thread #119251 Message #2586487
Posted By: JohnInKansas
11-Mar-09 - 01:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: The soft side of hard times
Subject: RE: BS: The soft side of hard times
Even the (US) government feels the budget crunch and has to resort to "low cost" methods:
Posted: Tuesday, March 10 2009 at 04:28 pm CT by Bob Sullivan
You're the federal agency charged with protecting consumers. You have a $250 million annual budget, subpoena power and the ability to refer cases to the Justice Department for prosecution. So what do you do when one of America's biggest companies continually flouts the law?
You challenge the company to a joke-off.
At least, that's what the Federal Trade Commission has done. On Tuesday it released two videos that spoof the popular FreeCreditReport.com commercials and their trademark catchy tunes.
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The brief article says something about the difficulties of regulating rip-off scams with lots of money; and the two videos are actually kinda cute. I'm not sure they do a lot for "folk music," but allowing for the source they're not too bad for "coffee shop" genre.