sjfcontrol wrote:AndyC wrote:Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officials are seeking to monitor four out of every five U.S. consumer credit card transactions this year — up to 42 billion transactions – through a controversial data-mining program, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Uh huh.
Why?
'cause they can?
Better question is: "Monitor for what?"
For political purposes. This is not a partisan statement as I believe the use of governmental resources against political enemies is decades old. The current administration, however, seems to have taken it to a higher invasive and blatant level. The Nixon White House had an "enemies" list but I believe it was mostly limited to other politicians and high level opposing figures. Now, those lists include individual citizens like some of us on the forum. Through technology and the willingness to use it in this matter, the lists of enemies and actions against them are growing exponentially.
I predict that within two years, they will drop all pretext of using any of this to fight terrorism. It will be solely in place for Federal government enforcement purposes. The amassing of data for the Obamacare alone is breathtaking and if they force the physicians (by threatening withholding payments) to expand the data gathering into social areas as they are now beginning, it will get even worse.
The same forced compliance that we've seen in the EPA, etc will be used against each of us. If you don't answer the gun related questions your doctor asks, your healthcare will be affected. And by then, it won't matter which party wins the election. Once the bureaucracy is fully cranked up, it turns into its on perpetual motion machine.