Obama seeks debt collector proposal

North County Times ^ | October 4, 2011 | AP

[Cincinatus' Wife]

To the dismay of consumer groups and the discomfort of Democrats, President Barack Obama wants Congress to make it easier for private debt collectors to call the cellphones of consumers delinquent on student loans and other billions owed the federal government.

The change "is expected to provide substantial increases in collections, particularly as an increasing share of households no longer have landlines and rely instead on cellphones," the administration wrote recently. The little-noticed recommendation would apply only to cases in which money is owed the government, and is tucked into the mammoth $3 trillion deficit-reduction plan the president submitted to Congress.

Despite the claim, the administration has not yet developed an estimate of how much the government would collect, and critics reject the logic behind the recommendation.

[Jonty30]

That’s ok.

I never answer the phone anyway.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Gov. Rick Perry wants to make government as inconsequential in our lives as possible.

Obama?

Obama and his czars want just the opposite.

[mamelukesabre]

haha

obama voters to be the hardest hit

HAHA

[Diogenesis]

Moslems and Congressional staff, excluded, again, of course?

[Jonty30]

Think Borg, when think of what leftists want with humanity.

[ari-freedom]

these kiddies aren't going to like this!

[ari-freedom]

btw is that Islamic rage boy with the blond hair?

[Diogenesis]

Umberto Calvini:
"The government bankers want to control the debt,
And whoever controls the debt, controls everything.
This is the essence of the banking industry,
to make us all slaves to debt."

[EBH]

Sheriff of Nottingham

[OCCASparky]

And the elimination of privacy continues, one step at a time. Big Brother is now not only watching you, he’s calling, he’s making a list, and checking it twice...

[OCCASparky]

And not a damn one of them employable outside a Starbuck’s or kitchy bookstore.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...tucked into the mammoth $3 trillion deficit-reduction plan...

AP -- still gulping the Kool-Aid

[Nervous Tick]

Napalm was made for moments like these.

[OCCASparky]

Fire hoses and soap. Lots and lots of soap.

[VeniVidiVici]

I never answer the phone anyway.

With Sprint you can set it up so that all calls that are not answered get forwarded to another number. I have a Google Voice number I'm not using so all those calls get forwarded there and into the big bit bucket in the cloud.

[Dr. Sivana]

The next step will be to make it illegal to buy a prepaid phone or gift Visa card without giving personal info.

[Red_Devil 232]

Can you use the White House’s number?

[VeniVidiVici]

LOL! I’m sure you can. But then they’d have your number.

[Venturer]

They pass out the money for student loans like it was water, the kids go to school to study Social Engineering, thay come out dumber than they went in(fully learned on Liberal BS) and there are no jobs to pay back the loans and Obama wants to haunt them on the phone.

They should have gotten a job as a plumber or electrician.