It really frustrates me when I see a comment like yours on Free Republic. It means that even on a website dedicated to limited government, property rights and individual liberty, there are still too many so called conservatives who maintain a knee jerk reaction to sob stories by uttering the liberal battle cry "There ought to be a law!!!"
There are millions of laws and regulations now that strangle any potential employer to hire the people they believe are the best and to run their businesses the way they deem appropriate. Millions. And you want to add another law to strangle this employer's liberty?
Have you learned nothing from your year and a half of being a registered Freeper?
We have a tough enough row to hoe to put an end to liberty robbing legislation. We don't need so called conservatives fighting for the enemy.
There ought to be as law against people wanting the federal government to make laws controlling the way we conduct our everyday lives. Oops, there is. It’s called the Constitution of the United States.
Regarding right of a potential employer to access a person’s credit score. A credit score is absolutely a matter of privacy unless the potential job duties involve financial responsibility or the handling of sensitive information. There is no reason for an employer to have access to my credit score in other circumstances. I thought rights of an individual to be secure in their own personal information was more important to Conservatives than the rights of employers to access such information.
Not to mention the amount of errors a credit score often contains and the difficulty in correcting those errors.
I think this is something reasonable people can disagree on. I think my reasons for my opinion are sound. I do not think this needs to be done at the Federal level but I would support it at the state level with certain exceptions. I don’t really see how punishing people and knocking them out of the running for a job is a good thing considering how many people have been harmed by Obama’s economic policies. I am standing up for the individual here as a potential employee as much as others are standing up for employers. Supporting the individual is a conservative value.