Bush saving Do Not Call list: good or bad?

[oustemnow]

On one hand, it's likely to build a lot of good will for him.

On the other, it's bound to alienate him among the free market uber alles, campaign donations=free speech nutbag crowd.

On the third hand, there's finally something he's done that I approve of.

I'm so confusted right now....

[Skittles]

1. THINK ABOUT IT

why would Bush sign something that goes AGAINST what his corporate buddies want? SCAM.

[Dob Bole]

3. I like this bill...

because I'm big-time anticonsumerist. One also banning TV commercials would be quite nice. But if you look at the bill, it doesn't really have teeth. Anybody can still call you for 6 months, plus telephone companies and political parties (Republicans) can still call asking for money all they want.

[Skittles]

20. you got it

but Bush gets to play the hero pretending to do something that is oh-so-popular. It astounds me how many DUers are falling for such utter garbage.

[rocktivity]

2. I guess the telemarketing lobby

Didn't make a big enough campaign contribution.


rocknation

[Booberdawg]

4. Publicity stunt

[Girlfriday]

5. Definitely, a feel good move!

50 million people signed up, it was an easy way to make alot of people happy. He is such a sleaze!

[illini]

6. UMMM that was my thunder!!!!!!!!

NT

[Avalon Sparks]

7. I'd rather there not be a "Do Not Call List"~

Maybe it's because I don't get that many calls and I have caller ID. I've made a point over the last several years not to give out my real telephone number to ANYONE. I've never been one to jump when the phone rings either, if I'm doing something cool I just don't answer it, or even look at the ID box.

I just don't think it's a good time to lose more jobs in this country. There have always been telemarketing jobs and I've had to work them a couple of times to get by, especially in the early, early 90's under Dubya's Daddy.

So many people seem to want it though, so I think that's why Bush is supporting it and I don't think it will hurt him. I think it will be a couple years after the list goes into effect before it really starts to eat up those telemarketing jobs.

WHAT I'd like to see is laws passed preventing cable companies (like Comcast), our credit card companies, and other companies where we usually have to provide a phone number and other info, from selling our personal information to make a buck. That is what really pisses me off. I give them fake phone numbers anway (without them knowing) and advise them to contact me via email.

[Pepperbelly]

21. a lot of our fellow progressives here ...

find disturbences more important than employment. Go figure because it astounds me that any progressive would want people put out of work as a matter of convenience. They will try to paint is as some heavy privacy issue but it is not: it is an inconvenience.

I guess their position is, "Fuck these people. I don't want to have to move my arm, answer the phone and say 'no' if they are uninterested.

[Brian Sweat]

22. Hey crack dealer are just trying to make a living.

Why do people want to put them out of work?

[paulk]

8. It's a no-brainer for Bush

is that an oxymoron?

No, really, after the overwhelming vote in both the House and Senate, even bush isn't dumb enough to oppose this.

[Unknown Known]

9. Don't trust ANYTHING done by a bush

Haven't you people learned anything yet? Do you actually think he's doing this FOR US? There's a scam built into this somehow. I just know it. It may have something to do with collecting data on everyone.

[Zorra]

10. I agree, maybe he signed it because

it makes him look good to the public, and he already knows the courts are not going to allow it.

[E Pluribus Unum]

11. If it really makes the calls

stop it is a good thing.

[Don_G]

12. 31 States Have No Call Lists

27 now, another 4 scheduled to go into effect tomorrow and another 2 next year. To approve the national list is a "no brainer."

http://www.the-dma.org/government/donotcalllists.shtml

[Brian Sweat]

13. Bad - Here is why.

Bush will get good publicity out of this, but the courts will kill it and he knows it.

[E Pluribus Unum]

14. Why do you think that the courts will kill it?

[Brian Sweat]

16. Because the GOP wouldn't have supported it, if they didn't have an out.

[realFedUp]

15. easy political move.

although I agree with the two Fed judges on this...

really glad our names aren't on that master list
right now...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

17. possibly 2 million people will lose jobs over this......

and most of those will be single mothers who are sole supporters of their children :(...4/5 million are employed by telemarketers...more than half will be let go to start and many more to follow...

just the down side of this deal....hey i hate telemarketers as much as anyone...but this is bad...seems to me to be just another ploy for the CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVES to create more desperate people willing to work cheap and grateful for any job...or even get them to ENLIST to fight in bush*s fraudulent war....just my $0.02


oh and another thing...these lost jobs will just be made up with pools of Indians....the telemarketers will relocate elsewhere and then what?....will this "no call" list be moot? :shrug:

[srubick]

18. Free speech issues

The bushman must have been told by now, if he still has any competent lawyers on his staff, that this is an issue that will be decided by the courts. Anything he does now is simply for political purposes. Familiar ground for a man who never questions anything.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

19. kick for the lunch bunch