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"...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 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.

"...Post your phone numbers now...or you are just a big hypocrite..."

I've already posted mine and I'll post it again - (843) 8194073. No one, so far, has had the sack to call it. The truth is, I'm not particuliarly interested in fielding your calls either. So I guess my larger point is: If people like you dare others to post their numbers then maybe you SHOULD call. Or, maybe you SHOULD just shut your soup cooler and not write such ridiculous demands. BTW, if you call me after 10 PM EST, I'll have my cell phone silenced, so, leave me a numeric page instead of a voice message and I'll call you back. I'll do it too, I'm a friggin' kook!

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.

But the phone lines to your house are on your property and they are not yours. They are the property of a private though well regulated company, and you can't make a phone call without passing over the system which telemarketing makes a major contribution to supporting. They support you calling, but you would deprive them of supporting themselves. If you phone network was private, you could limit it's use, but you can't. You are, however. free to disconnect your phone and not let anyone call you on it. You are also free to set up a private phone network so that you can make your calls without financially bleeding off of others, but you won't, because you it wouldn't be affordable.

Marie Antoinette said 'let them cake.' You are saying 'let them eat cake, but give me the bread off their tables first.'