What has happened to the stimulus money in the very depressed county that I live in, is that it's been distributed to all the county and state agencies, and they are using to for 'secret shoppers' who are trying to catch mom and pop businesses making mistakes.
They are undercover, and they act like Starksey and Hutch.
They record the conversation, try to set up the shopkeep, and they use any excuse that they can to put the shopkeep out of business.
Last weekend, someone with a new shop got arrested by code enforcement with a 2000. $ fine because see had her bills in her cash box going backwards. (It's supposed to be 1,5,10,20, & she went 20,10,5,1) another vendor got arrested for sneaking a smoke, which turned out to be a criminal misdemeanor (counts against you in the three strikes and you are out law), and wound up with a $2400.00 fine.
We are talking micro businesses here, most people in fleamarkets are just getting started. we like it because they have really good security, and it's only three days a week, most businesses don't survive.
Now with the state, feds and county going at them, they won't.
We bought a security system, so we can record everything, if we get two or three sets of secret shoppers a weekend.
One of the barkeeps got arrested for serving beer to a minor, and convicted, because the undercover cop was about 50, showed an ID that said she was 17, and the guy thought it had to be joke, and served her anyway.
I can't wait to see what they do to bigger businesses, they have just passed a new whistleblower law, which gives whistleblowers (people who turn their boss in for doing something illegal) a cut of the fine.
I couldn't believe this one, you have an employee who isn't doing their job, and boom they find something you are dong wrong, and bam! you go to jail.
Talk about job creation!
Unless you are bernie madoff,
We don't have to wait for Maoist style reeduction camps, we now have it at the workplace!
julie77
Now look at the big picture