The "Do not Call List" is an example of unrestrained government spending.
I do not have any relationship with telemarketers except for the fact that I just hang up.
Every one else can hang up also.
Look at the falling dollar, just to see the effect that unrestrained government spending has.
Anyone who supports the "Do not call" laws has no right at all to complain about government spending, because they are unable to give up their pork.
This makes absolutely NO sense at all.
The calls are sort of disconcerting if you have to pause having sex to answer the phone.
"Pork" is hardly the problem with Government spending.
It's the trillions in entitlements that are spent, on top of exploding discretionary spending.
I love how people will hoot and howl ove rthe $600,000 spent on studying the owl rat living on Grandma Gerties farm, but yawn at the $21 billion the Feds spend on education every year, not to mention Social Security and Medicare.
Other than spending on bombs and such, the "Do Not Call" list was the first good use of government dollars I had seen in a long, long time.
This does not negate the annoyance of having to stop what you're doing and answer the phone, only to find it's someone intruding on your privacy - furthermore
all a hang up does is dump your number back into the system, only to be called again on the next go-round.
You must get the name of the person calling, then instruct them, per fed. law, to take you off the call list. They may comply - but will take up to 90 days to do so.
But you have to do this company by hundreds of companies. The "do not call" law takes care of that annoyance. (I worked for the largest issuer of Mastercard in the world - I learned more about the industry than I care to know. I will never own another charge card - only a debit card...which I look on as my own private credit card company - where I pay no interest, get no bill, never worry about the shenanigans they pull to zap customers with exorbitant rates/fees/ etc.
Credit card banks are one of the most destructive entities in history.
Every one else can hang up also.
That's just plain not true. My answering machine can't hang up. Then I have to sift through all of the harassing telemarketing calls each evening when I get home from work, trying to find the non-telemarketing calls. It wastes **my** time and money.