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Amazing. Simply amazing. Today I must say all of America is at witness of a miracle...Congress doing something RIGHT!
In a landslide in both the House and Senate, the federal court ruling against the National Do Not Call List was reduced to street pizza, with only 8 Representatives (and NO Senators) supporting it. The list is to be put on Dubya's desk soon to be signed into law or bucked back to the Capitol...and even if it does get vetoed, with the way the voting went today, a 2/3 majority to overturn the big V shouldn't be too difficult.
Of course, not everyone's happy with this. The federal courts are still saying it's a violation of the telemarketing industry's freedom of speech, and the telemarketers are saying it will slam down on their business.
BOTH of them are full of it.
First off, I've said this before, but the telemarketing industry's freedom of speech does NOT override the rest of the nation's privacy. If we don't want them calling us on OUR phone lines that WE pay for with our own money, they have no authority to do so. Besides, how can they gripe about a nation-wide Do Not Call list when they ALL have one of their OWN? All this list is doing is saving them the hassle of having to put us on that list themselves!
Of course, even with that aside the telemarketers still say the List would hurt their business rather severely......I just want to know one thing:
HOW!?
In case those pinheads didn't realize it, those of us who are on the list are people who DON'T want anything to do with them. What chance in any of the 9 levels of Hell do they have of SELLING us anything if we're going this far to let them know we don't even want to TALK to them?
Besides, the way I see it, this list would actually BENEFIT the telemarketing industry. Look at it like this:
They've got a whole shitload of numbers they can call around the country. A lot of them are interested in hearing them, while a lot of them are not....let's say the numbers are about even, one sold toaster for one slammed headset.
Suddenly this List comes into play.
Now the number of households they can call shrinks, but the number of people interested in buying stuff from them that they can still call maybe shrinks by one or two phone numbers.
Suddenly the proportion goes from even to being more in favor of them making a sale.
So now, instead of wasting half of their time getting hung up on and half of their time making a sale, they'll be spending more of their time making a sale.
And as any good telemarketer knows, more sales made = MORE MONEY.
When you look at it THAT way, the Do Not Call list could quite easily be making the telemarketing industry's profits SOAR.
So yeah...the telemarketing industry's fighting something that they have no grounds to oppose instead of letting it go and becoming billionaires.
Thank the gods I passed on that job offer at APAC when I was in high school...
In a landslide in both the House and Senate, the federal court ruling against the National Do Not Call List was reduced to street pizza, with only 8 Representatives (and NO Senators) supporting it. The list is to be put on Dubya's desk soon to be signed into law or bucked back to the Capitol...and even if it does get vetoed, with the way the voting went today, a 2/3 majority to overturn the big V shouldn't be too difficult.
Of course, not everyone's happy with this. The federal courts are still saying it's a violation of the telemarketing industry's freedom of speech, and the telemarketers are saying it will slam down on their business.
BOTH of them are full of it.
First off, I've said this before, but the telemarketing industry's freedom of speech does NOT override the rest of the nation's privacy. If we don't want them calling us on OUR phone lines that WE pay for with our own money, they have no authority to do so. Besides, how can they gripe about a nation-wide Do Not Call list when they ALL have one of their OWN? All this list is doing is saving them the hassle of having to put us on that list themselves!
Of course, even with that aside the telemarketers still say the List would hurt their business rather severely......I just want to know one thing:
HOW!?
In case those pinheads didn't realize it, those of us who are on the list are people who DON'T want anything to do with them. What chance in any of the 9 levels of Hell do they have of SELLING us anything if we're going this far to let them know we don't even want to TALK to them?
Besides, the way I see it, this list would actually BENEFIT the telemarketing industry. Look at it like this:
They've got a whole shitload of numbers they can call around the country. A lot of them are interested in hearing them, while a lot of them are not....let's say the numbers are about even, one sold toaster for one slammed headset.
Suddenly this List comes into play.
Now the number of households they can call shrinks, but the number of people interested in buying stuff from them that they can still call maybe shrinks by one or two phone numbers.
Suddenly the proportion goes from even to being more in favor of them making a sale.
So now, instead of wasting half of their time getting hung up on and half of their time making a sale, they'll be spending more of their time making a sale.
And as any good telemarketer knows, more sales made = MORE MONEY.
When you look at it THAT way, the Do Not Call list could quite easily be making the telemarketing industry's profits SOAR.
So yeah...the telemarketing industry's fighting something that they have no grounds to oppose instead of letting it go and becoming billionaires.
Thank the gods I passed on that job offer at APAC when I was in high school...
