| Comment Number: | 522418-12250 |
| Received: | 7/17/2006 7:39:06 PM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | N. Washington |
| State: | TX |
| Subject: | Business Opportunity Rule |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 437 |
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Comments:
I am appealing to this Commission not to implement Business Opportunity Rule R511993. I am deeply concerned that the government would want to burden decent and productive citizens with all the necessary steps and requirments suggested in Rule R511993. I became a Marketing Executive with FreeLife International just two months ago, and have found a way for me to live the American Dream: with hard work and dedication, I can achieve financial freedom to provide a better life for my family and to help my community. Now R511993 looms as a giant before me, and my dreams and hopes may be dashed by the very same government that is appointed to watch over my freedom as a citizen to pursue happiness. I beseech you, members of the Commission, to carefully reconsider and do away with such a ruling that would paralyze an industry that helps generate income for thousands of families who duly pay their taxes. Why penalize the decent and hardworking citizens of this country? Why not focus on toughening penalties for criminal who take advantage of other people's trust and innocence? Why make it more difficult for people to earn an honest living by their hard work? Is this what our government wants to do? To control and regulate every financial transaction in this country, to monitor people's activities and act as Big Brother in ways that intrude on the privacy of citizens who have done no wrong? I came to the US almost 20 years ago, I have complied with every law and ordinance of this country and I have fulfilled my obligations as a tax-payer - now I am told that the government is going to prevent me from conducting business in an honest and fair manner and is going to make it very hard for me to be successful? Where is this land of freedom and opportunity? Are you going to take it away? I appreciate the concerns of this Commission and the good it is trying to do, but such ruling would slow down business and create a bureaucratic monster that would go nowhere. And isn't bureaucracy what the government is for? Leave free enterprise stand as the symbol of freedom and opportunity that this country represents to the rest of the world. Thank you for your consideration. Most respectfully, N. Washington Texas