John Oliver on Payday Loans

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18. What John Oliver didn't say

Was that the laws, recently enacted to try to rein in this atrocious abuse, were crappily written by poor excuses for lawyers. If there are loopholes so big you can drive a truck through them, they weren't thought out very well.

As an engineering student, my very first Physics test at the college level was graded Pass or Fail. Only one person out of 64 of us passed. The Physics lecturer told us "You have chosen to be engineers now. Your designs can function or they might kill. It does not matter that most of your working was correct, no is going to care if your product fails and kills. In this class you will not get extra points for showing your working, you will only pass if it is correct."

Law makers are engineers. They should be trained and treated as such. Loopholes can only be deliberate.