[The Brush]

I guess Americans need to take a more pro-active stance when they receive phone calls that they obviously don't want.
Perhaps a "national reply" is needed so these companies will take numbers off their lists voluntarily rather than to hire people to listen to the same comment over and over again before they are hung up on.

[ought-six]

The way to deal with this is to tell the telemarketers that you will boycott the company, organization, or product they are pushing unless and until they stop the harassing phone calls. This is unbelievable. The courts created out of whole cloth a constitutional right to kill one's children on the basis of a previously unknown and non-existent privacy right, but then turn around and say the American people have no privacy rights that can protect them against a harassing intrusion via telephone solicitation. Our courts have become unaccountable, unconstitutional, illegal, and imperial. It's time to bring out the ropes and the torches.

[JoeGar]

I guess Americans need to take a more pro-active stance when they receive phone calls that they obviously don't want. Perhaps a "national reply" is needed ...

I suggest the "national reply" be a loud police whistle blown in the telemarketer's ear.

[Tribune7]

I like my brother's "Anthony method." Solictor calls he hands the phone to his four-year-old son. "Daddy, why did that man hang up on me?"