And I bet the odds are good that if the government actually got rid of whores you would be sorry. If not you, certainly a high percentage of our politicians would be. Such standards you have. Myself, I respect anyone who makes an honest living.
I did spend some time in the industry to study it before I started my own operation. The one thing I noticed when I was on the phone was that the vast majority of people I spoke with assumed I had dark skin. Do you really think that people with such inane powers of judgement are competent to make decisions by themselves? I really don't.
The average American is truly a sheople, and the pols grabbed this one and ran for it because it was a no-brainer decision made by the sheople.
The framers of the constitution did...Marx didn't. We are a representative republic and the representatives of that republic understand ENOUGH to know that people don't want these phone calls by a large margin.
I am biased towards my opinion...because I don't like getting up to 10+ phone calls a day on the phone line I own on the phone service I PAY FOR. I have too much to do when I get home from work to answer phone calls from people I don't want calling me...and no...I don't care if it puts them out of work. Why? I don't want the "service." I have that right as a consumer...like it or not.
The lines in my house are MINE. I own them. Unless I pay the phone company insurance each month (a few bucks)...I have to pay for them to fix it if it goes bad (or I do it myself). It is my phone line in my house...so people I want to stay off of it should...and that is what my representative heard (and most of them!). You of course are biased to your opinion because this is your business. Understandable. Stinks to be you. However, your freedom of speech stops at my property line...and those phone lines in my house are MY PROPERTY...as is the PHONE. So...please stay off of my property and stop wasting my time. The do not call list is a way of telling you to stay of my property (remember...I OWN IT!)...just like a sign hung on the fence.
As I stated to someone else...if it no big deal for someone to call you at home or work to harass you...post both of your numbers here and now so we can all call you (even the lurkers...maybe they have something you need that you haven't thought of!). Post your phone numbers now...or you are just a big hypocrite.