Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones

TCPALaw writes "While many hoaxes have circulated in the past about cell phone numbers being opened up to telemarketers, it now may actually happen. A bill, HR 3035 (PDF), has been introduced in Congress, that would create numerous exceptions to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which banned autodialed and prerecorded robot calls to cell phone numbers. If passed, HR 3035 would permit a wide range of autodialed and prerecorded calls to cell phones that are currently prohibited, and would preempt practically all state laws providing similar protections. This is being applauded by debt collectors and banks (PDF) ... as if the bailouts weren't enough, now they get to make you pay for their calls to you."

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Re:Simple.

[Nadaka]

The problem is that it no longer doesn't matter who wins. At one point the parties were basically the same and only differed on a nearly irrelevant polarizing issues, and those were mostly predetermined by the constitution. Now the republicans have been infected with the tea party, who seek nothing less than the end of America as we know it. Your vote now matters far more than ever. You can vote Republican/Tea Party for the annihilation of America, or your can vote Democrat for our meager continued existence. We do not yet have a viable party that is in favor of making America great.

Re:Simple.

[lgw]

America as it stands isn't viable - we're going the way of Greece and fast, spending 1.6x what we take in. I don't know if the Tea Party has the right answer - heck, they're sort of an informal orginization, so it's hard to say what they stand for - but there is simply no more road to drive down in the direction we have been going. America "as we know it" is dead, and that's not necessarily a bad thing - all progress requires abandoning the current path.