Calculated Sacrifice of Franchisees to Free Trade Principles?
Small Business Administration (59 replies) Mon, 2007/07/02 - 12:59
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- SBA Guarantees Loans and Franchisors and Banks Always Win (2007-07-04 13:08)
- Calculated Sacrifice of Franchisees to Free Trade Principles? (2007-07-04 13:18)
- Yes contact your elected officials and demand restraint of trade (2007-07-04 13:13)
- Took a Risk and Lost ---Quiznos (2007-09-04 11:02)
- Thanks Original Soupman for the Warning (2007-09-03 12:28)
- Contract Law Protects the Sale of Duds to the Public (2007-11-06 13:35)
- Forbes: l0 Reasons ----Unfair Termination (2007-10-20 12:42)
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- High Finance and Franchnising (2007-11-08 18:39)
- Sona MedSpa, The UPS Store, CSC, The CB are all on SBA (2007-11-17 11:54)
- YAAWWNN (2007-12-17 12:33)
- Franchise Loan Activity (2007-12-28 15:45)
- FuwaFuwaUsagi--Where do ZORS get their financing? SBA? (2008-02-16 16:14)
- SBA Patriot Express Pilot Loan Program ---VETS BEWARE (2007-07-02 22:11)
- SBA ---Bag Money for the Banks (2007-07-02 13:59)
- Risk of investment (2007-07-04 13:19)
- Z-Rube and you think we appreciate your dishonesty? (2007-07-04 13:09)
- I agree with you for the most part... (2007-07-04 13:10)
- 3% for SBA pool ---WOW ---PATRIOT EXPRESS LOANS (2007-07-04 13:11)
- Huh? (2007-11-06 13:46)
- Tell me Item 20 Ranter... (2007-10-20 12:46)
- Targeting underperformers (2007-10-22 10:43)
- SBA --FRAN DATA SNAPSHOTS MAY BE COVER FOR (2007-11-01 14:17)
- Item 20 Ranter never ceases to amaze (2007-11-17 11:59)
- Not quite a yawn, though I (2007-12-17 12:46)
- Maybe one day the Item 20 Ranter will have something to offer (2007-12-28 16:25)
- Why won't SBA finance the ZOR Corporation? (2008-02-16 17:26)
- ITEM 20 AND FAILUIRE RATES (2007-07-04 13:16)
- Z-rube LISTEN UP (2007-07-04 13:12)
- Z-rube you just don't get it (2007-07-04 13:13)
- God Bless You! (2007-07-04 13:20)
- Regulatory policy (2007-11-06 14:29)
- Government should regulate to protect ----FTC-SBA-IFA REMISS (2007-10-20 16:56)
- "Moved" to Where? (2007-10-20 16:12)
- Does TIF use FranData Research and Snapshots (2007-11-01 14:53)
- Regulatory implementation of statute (2007-11-12 10:49)
- Paul is it your job to rehabilitate the Item 20 Ranter rants? (2007-12-17 18:31)
- what do you offer again? (2007-12-28 16:29)
- Reading Item 20 of the UFOC (2007-07-04 13:43)
- No, Z-Rube your post says what you are saying! (2007-07-04 13:21)
- Item 20 Ranter it is you who cannot answer simple questions (2007-10-20 17:23)
- Is BMM now part of the Trilateral Commission? (2007-10-20 18:06)
- State UFOC must be in compliance with Federal Rule (2007-11-06 14:36)
- One more time I do not broker franchises or have clients (2007-11-01 15:23)
- As a fan of bad puns (2007-12-17 19:57)
- I suppose many things escape you... (2007-12-28 20:08)
- Are new franchisees who buy units from first-generation (2007-07-04 14:24)
- Even a stopped clock is right twice a day... (2007-12-17 20:04)
- i am here... (2008-01-02 20:01)
- In my experience transferees receive a UFOC (2007-07-04 15:12)
- Franchise Transfers (2007-07-04 15:49)
- Why don't you register anonymously? (2008-01-02 20:27)
- Do second generation franchisees get a UFOC (2007-07-04 15:25)
- uh huh. (2008-01-03 13:33)
- If the new zee is expected to sign the current form of agreement (2007-07-04 15:30)
- Why did Requirment UFOC for Transferees present legal disadvanta (2007-07-04 15:35)
- Okay "SleepTight" (2008-01-03 14:24)
- TIF, you forgot to quote me when... (2008-01-03 15:35)








Calculated Sacrifice of Franchisees to Free Trade Principles?
Poster wants to use "restraint of trade" and "regulation restraint" as excuse for failure to disclose the true and real risk of a franchised business opportunity to the buyer of the franchise.
These posters who are so against any effective regulation and who would sacrifice franchisees to bad business investments in the interests of their profits and the "economy" have no problem with the government, the SBA, making them rich with tax-payer money that stands behind the guarantees for the banks and the lenders -- and the franchisors have no problem with government initiatives like THE PATRIOT EXPRESS LOAN that will allow them to capture the capital of the franchisees who, in both success and failure, will feed the franchisors and the economy.
It doesn't matter to them that the targeted group who will be eligible for Patriot Express Loans are human beings who may have already given an arm, or a leg, or an eye to protect free markets, democracy and capitalism in the world. They seem to be indicating that. if government doesn't continue to subsidize the franchisors by allowing them to obscure the actual and real risk of the investment, this will result in "restraint of trade" and be bad for the economy and bad for the profits of the franchisors and the banks, etc...
Is franchising really that risky? Is the real rate of failure so high that you would be willing to sacrifice veterans to prevent the failure rate of the franchises from being disclosed under law? You would take the other leg and the arm from this targeted group to protect the myth of "a business of your own" and to provide the "venture" capital to keep the fires of development going.
Is this what you are saying?