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The DNC list would have made it illegal for me to call my clients if they hadn't done business with me within 18 months. I would have been subject to a fine of up to $11,000. $11,000 fine for calling someone!? Due process, punishment fitting the crime????? How on earth this was considered legal in a free society is completely beyond my comprehension. What if I called a wrong number, contacted someone of the thousands of clients that may have recently transferred out, etc.......

No offense, but your right to do business should not trump my right to peaceful enjoyment of my own home. And no one has been able to specifically show where large numbers of people would be put out of work by this with any sort of empirical data, contrary to the constant carping of the telemarketing association.

As for opting out, why not let me opt in if I find I don't mind those sorts of calls? Why is the onus placed on the consumer to get out of something they did not ask to be a part of? Because professional telemarketers know that most people would never opt to participate in the first place.

Well, let's say you're a client of a brokerage firm. How am I supposed to stay in touch with you? Wouldn't it even be illegal for me to call and ask you? If you do business with phone company x, shouldn't they be able to call you and offer you new services, or discounts on calling plans that they know you'd benefit from? I had my phone company call me and inform me about a plan that fit my needs, I saved money and was happy to hear from them. As I said before, you have the ability to curtail these calls by just using some common sense. Involving the govt into this was a ploy to gain far reaching power that would have dramatically effected American business.

You are ABSOLUTELY kidding yourself if you thought that this wouldn't wind up in STAGGERING unemployment numbers. Supposedly, GW has LOST 3 million jobs under his watch, now the number would be 5 million. Can you imagine the windfall the US Postal service would have gotten out of this?! Think a bit outside the box on this, twas a particularly bad idea.