{"id":1694,"date":"2003-07-28T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2021-05-24T01:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T05:21:26","slug":"aww-poor-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/07\/28\/aww-poor-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Aww, Poor Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/newsbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; According to <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=514&#038;e=6&#038;u=\/ap\/20030728\/ap_on_re_us\/do_not_call_3\" title=\"Link to article\">this story<\/a> on Yahoo!, the telemarketing industry is trying to sue the FTC over their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donotcall.gov\">Do Not Call<\/a> list.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Says an industry representative, the FTC &#8220;ignored its obligations under the federal law and the Constitution to carefully balance the privacy interests of consumers with the First Amendment rights of legitimate telemarketers.&#8221; The article goes on to say the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donotcall.gov\">list<\/a> could cost telemarketers $50 billion in lost sales and two million lost jobs.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Firstly, there are already twenty-eight million numbers on the list, soon to double, so I doubt too many people would be grieving your loss. Instead of fighting to maintain a business practice nobody but lonely old people likes, why not try finding a career where you&#8217;re not despised? Secondly, <i>all<\/i> telemarketers are illegitimates. Thirdly, <i>$50 billion<\/i>??!! With that many suckers around, no wonder those telemarketing cockroaches won&#8217;t die.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; According to this story on Yahoo!, the telemarketing industry is trying to sue the FTC over their Do Not Call list.&nbsp; &nbsp; Says an industry representative, the FTC &#8220;ignored its obligations under the federal law and the Constitution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/07\/28\/aww-poor-babies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}