In the FY 2007 Budget Request for the United States Justice Departments Federal Trade Commission; the FTC put forth several examples of their achievements to protect the consumer. In the report to congress and the over view that followed the Federal Trade Commission stated that it had been working to protect consumers from Identity Theft.

Identity Theft.

According to a 2003 FTC staff survey on identity theft, over a five-year period, more than 27 million consumers were victims of identity theft; identity theft has become the number one consumer complaint received in the FTC's database. During FY 2005, the FTC continued to operate the ID Theft Data Clearinghouse and collected more than 255,000 identity theft complaints in its consumer information system, bringing the total to more than 940,000.

I would like to enlighten the consumer to the fact that by the FTCs own admission here that they have had an increase in identity theft since they started working on it. They have failed to curb it in any way, shape or form? Thus why should we increase that agencies failure and piss poor performance? But the FTC goes onto state that:

The FTC's identity theft team conducts outreach and training with criminal law enforcement authorities to assist them in the prosecution of identity thieves and since 2000, has distributed nearly 4.5 million paper copies of its two main identity theft education publications, including its new and improved identity theft booklet, and recorded more than 2.7 million visits to the Web versions of these publications.

Now then we are trying to cut paper and the FTC indicates here that they are freely and purposefully and knowingly distributing paper copies. Additionally their FTC Identity Theft Team is outrageously incompetent in my professional and reality based observational opinion. Therefore after reviewing all this data it is our findings that the FTC not be given one more damn dime of taxpayers money and the agency should be closed at the end of this fiscal year. Consider this in 2006.

Lance Winslow

Currently Lance is retired at age 40 and is running an Online Think Tank Forum while traveling North America. Perhaps considering something extremely challenging to do that will exercise his mind and utilize all his experiences, observations and skills. Any ideas?