Hiding Things From The Dumb Consumers and Citizens

The problem with this generation is the ease at which things can be hid from the masses. In politics and with consumer products things are hidden for the purpose of deceiving the public to gain political power or for a company to make more money.

The tactic of cramming in additional charges on a phone bill was common practice back when people paid $100 and more for local and long distance phone service. Most people pay under $20 a month for local and long distance service and the hidden fees have moved from there on over to your cell phone bill.

Companies get away with hiding fees because they have a small sentence on page 14 of a contract saying that they can do this or that to raise your price. If you look at the legality of what these companies are doing it could be proven that they are involved in deceptive trade practices by purposefully advertising a nice looking glossy advertised price on TV, billboards, and radio while hiding the real unattractive price in a place on the contract statistically known to virtually go unread by over 99 % of the customers.

Unfortunately most people will not pursue a dishonest company in court that tricks thousands of their customers into a falsely advertised price or rate. The people who do file a lawsuit are quickly compensated with a settlement offer while the company continues to scam their way into huge profits. A small penalty and infraction by a lower court or Attorney General does not stop these practices from continuing and is only a marketing risk cost a dis-reputable company considers before even marketing their product.

Take for instance the Power Balance bracelet. This hologram frequency bracelet is supposed to somehow balance the body if you wear the bracelet in close proximity to the skin. The CEO of the company had to admit to an Australia court that their advertisements made false claims and offered no physiological benefit whatsoever. They also offered up a consumer refund to any customer who purchased the bracelet that wanted one. The problem is that most customers will not ask for a refund and the company will continue to tweak and market their product to allow it to show up on the shelves of retail stores.

The hiding of things, charges, fees, realities, and agendas continues to go on outside the retail markets and in politics. The Obama birth certificate is a perfect example of how far a politician will go to hide the truth from citizens. The Obama birth certificate issue is simply concerning the refusal of Obama to allow the original long form version of his Hawaii birth certificate to be shown to courts or the public. There are multiple conspiracies as to why Obama has chosen to hide his official original long form Birth Certificate. Some of the reasons people have assumed are that he was actually born outside the US or that his original birth certificate says that his race is "White" or "Caucasian"

The idea that Obama was not born in the US is likely untrue but the conspiracy could be easily squashed if Obama allowed his original birth certificate to be allowed to be seen. Because Obama is spending millions of dollars to keep these records and others from being revealed it is assumed he must be hiding something. The race conspiracy where he could possibly be hiding the classification shown on his certificate as being white sounds plausible but still these are only guesses. The unfortunate aspect to all of this is that it is harder to prove if our president is qualified to be president than it is to find out if a magical balance bracelet really has any physiological benefit.

In the end there will continue to be believers in Obama being the chosen one and no concern over what he hides from the voters. Power Balance bracelets will continue to sell their plastic bracelets as new believers in its magical powers come about. New terms will be created to hide and confuse the public over what is really going on such as labeling questioners "Birthers" and marketing the bracelet as what "embodies eastern philosophies". Both the US President and balance bracelet frauds will continue to laugh all the way to the bank at just how easy it is to hide the most damaging aspects of their origins from the masses.

last time modified: Sept. 14, 2011, 5:14 p.m.