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Canada's Do-Not-Hesitate-To-Call List
An anonymous reader writes "The creation of a do-not-call list in Canada has run into
trouble. Michael Geist reports that the proposal has been effectively destroyed, with exceptions for just about every telemarketer including businesses, political parties, polling companies, and charities. The government committee apparently heard from the marketers but refused to listen to consumer groups."
I always seem to get modded troll based on my anti-socialist position.
First, my parents were the poorest people in my town. I didn't find wealth until I created it myself, without using any government grants or welfare dole.
Second, companies don't exist to make money. They exist to make wealth. There is a difference. Companies that offer wealth to their customers in the form of long term happiness in exchange for giving up their wealth of money, tend to prosper. Those who rip people off tend to fail. Also, a company has to make sure their employees see added wealth in exchange for their time, or they lose those good employees.
Birth defects from what? Who really knows what causes birth defects. Government flouride treatments cause defects and rotting teeth, but we support those. Government mandates scarcity in doctors and researchers in the form of regulation of colleges and grants, yet more doctors and researchers could find more cures for what ails us.
If one company profits on creating more death and birth defects, another company will find out about it and let you know. But if government profits on the same, they'll just ask for more money to combat what is obvious a "social problem."
Don't start touting government as the one-size-fits-all savior. We all would be far better off with far smaller government. Marx and Keynes were proven wrong years before they were even born, but it seems to be that opinions such as mine are irrelevant and troll-ful because the opinions exist and refute the ideaology of the average slashdotter.