The phone just rang. My wife answers and it is a solicitor. She asks for the person’s home phone number so she can call her back. Of course, the person doesn’t want to give out their home phone and wonders why. My wife says so she can interrupt that person’s personal time to give her a message.
Don’t you think that phone calls soliciting anything, various periods of the day or night are annoying?
We put ourselves on a no-call list, and still get phone calls – mostly from charity. I am glad the election is over. I was receiving phone calls constantly from both political parties.
You tell the people, when there is a real person to talk to and not a recording that you are on a no-call list. Since most are charities that are calling, I ask them why they don’t honor the no-call list and they say that charities are exempt. Really?
I have written to various places concerning this, including my representative. Certain legislation has been passed and the business entities that utilize this annoying form of advertising – business and charity – claim they have the right to do so.
Well, let me give them a clue on how the Constitution works. You have the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness as long as it doesn’t affect the rights of others. Very simple, really. But the great minds that are supposed to be in charge of the highest court in the land cannot grasp that concept.
It is this way with many things once taken granted to be under the umbrella of rights and liberties established log ago within a document called the Constitution of the United States of America. Here is an example of how we have deterred from the original concept of freedom.
Property rights. If a local contractor wants your property, it usually isn’t difficult to go to the local government and under certain procedures your property can soon no longer belong to you, or part of it. This was one of the main discussions when putting together the Amendments to the Constitution, the first ten being called the Bill of Rights. Under the rule of King George, soldiers could be stationed on your property or even in your home, with or without your permission. Property rights were important to the colonist.
And other “rights” are in the argument: gay rights, marriage rights, and what the government teaches your children at school. Public schools are no longer just institutions of learning in order to develop our children to be literate and to meet career goals through the progression of education. They are now brainwashing centers that teach our children that the global warming theory/hoax is real science. They do not teach abstinence or just what sex education was originally intended for – they hand out condoms and basically tell students that if they are going to have sex they might as well be protected. Government interferes with parenting, and, in fact, its methods and ideology is intended to govern parents on how they raise their children. And when government interferes with our personal lives, the results can be seen in the increase in divorce and other problems – as usual, government cannot take the place of one-on-one private public affairs. It is because government is not based upon individualism, although it was supposed to be originally, but focuses on the collective. Collectivism has its place when dealing with a nation’s citizens en masse, but when it comes to social programs and the judiciary, it must be narrowed down to the individual circumstances.
Parent-teachers working together are far better than government mandates from some distant senate floor. Instead the teachers’ unions and the government is in control.
Like Witchy Woman states:
What’s with that?
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