Corrupt Contractors

Lawmakers need to stop all the sex going on in our government and roll up their sleeves instead of pulling down their pants. Consumers are getting ripped off daily by fraudulent companies because our laws are too weak. You have heard of building contractors that want to be paid up front for repairs made to your home. They rip apart the place and then either just walk away or take their sweet time to do the work they were contracted to do. They are so bold because our laws let them be irresponsible.

Our laws are flawed and people are out hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases because of it. Homes are being left without doors, windows and adequate flooring for months and years waiting for repairs to begin.  It is a pattern among bad contractors. The flaw in criminal law virtually gives home improvement contractors in New York a license to steal. Even if you take your contractor to court you have to prove that the contractor INTENDED to steal in order to prosecute. Well how do you prove an INTENTION? The wise assed contractor will never tell you to your face that they INTEND to rip you off even though it is probably his only intention. An intention of any kind is hard to prove. So the bastards walk with all your money.

There is too much of a grey area in criminal law that allows contractors to get away with fraud. New York Republican State Senator Phil Boyle admits that proving that a contractor intended to not do the work when some of the work is partially done. So that is what the bad contractors do. They tear everything apart and will maybe repair one wall or something just to say that they are working on the project. So you lose your money again. You can file a complaint with the District Attorney’s Office, file a Civil Suit for damages and then the creepy contractors are allowed to sue YOU for Deformation   and say that the allegations are untrue and probably sue you for millions. What a nightmare when all you wanted was a new kitchen or something.

The Senators need to fix our consumer protection laws and at least get the word INTENT out of the existing law. No American should have to go bankrupt at the hands of bad contractors. Elected officials should get down to doing the jobs they were elected to do instead of always campaigning for themselves or other candidates. Even our stupid President is campaigning for a fellow alleged sex abuser in Alabama to get elected meanwhile he does nothing to aid or stop   the forest fires consuming California. Instead of approving a pipe line of oil running throughout America, how about pipe lines of sea water to stop those uncontrolled flames everywhere. Homes are damaged or ruined all over America with all the different types of disasters in recent months. Our tax funded government should be doing something to help the taxpayers and not themselves. We hired those bums too.