Editorial

personal view | 10-09-2003 | blindandannoyed

[blindandannoyed]

This is simply my personal view after having reviewed the many comments regarding the "No-Call" List.

Each memeber who sighned up obviously were stating that they were tired of phone solicitation. After all they pay their telephone service for their use not for the use of others sto annoy them with their solocitaiton regardless of the time of day.

I am blind and I pay to have my number blocked and removed from various list and I find that it is an unfair practictice that I am still bothered by charity solicitations in additon to politicians.

I will leave with this comment it cost a meer 37 cents to send a first class letter to any address in the United States. However it cost a minimum of $5.15 for a telemarketer to make random calls who will eventually reach an individual who will 9 times out of ten tell them to remove their name form the list. Point being is that people are tired of being for lack of a better term harrassed allowed the privacy of their home for them and their family and they do not want to have these intruders to take one moment of this precious time. Once these people get the message and start providing an option for consumers to choose then they will benefit farmore than by a select few who desire to intimdate. Let's face it Americans are much smarter than telemarketing companies give them credit for. It has been a long fight but for once part of the message has obviously reached the appropriate audience.

As for charity and politicians what can be said the American public has allowed this to happen for to many years and it will take time to teach them as well that they are there to serve us not for us to serve them.

[blindandannoyed]

I truly hope that each individual can find peace and not be affraid to voice your opinion because free speech is not limited to the telephone.

[TomServo]

...and welcome to FR.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Nice screen-name. Do you know deaf and dumb?

[Normal4me]

Huh? How many comments do you actually see? Do what I do, turn the ringer off!

[humblegunner]

How do you read FR if you are blind?

I won't ask about the typing, I type blind quite often.

Welcome to FR!

[mikemurphy111]

You don't have to talk to the telemarketer. Just hang up for goodness sakes. We don't need new laws to protect anyone. They won't work anyway. Telemarketers will just get around them with letters and lotteries and drawings . Just like campaign finance reform. A complete waste of time seeing as the most corrupt are the Liberals who are out there screaming for laws and in the meantime they are selling out their souls to the scum bag trial lawyers and selling the White House bedrooms to the likes of Yassar Arafat the terrorist. Guess who spent more time at our White House than any other leader??? You guessed it - Yassar.

[CometBaby]

I am hearing that when the no call list is finally put into effect the calls will begin to come from offshore. The Bahamas, etc. where the laws do not apply. I have been told they are in the process of setting up the offices and capability now.

I suppose we are just going to have to find better ways to filter our phone calls because they seem to stay one step ahead of us.

[exDemMom]

I am just curious, how do you read FreeRepublic? Does your computer read it aloud, or does someone read it for you?

Anyway, welcome to FreeRepublic.