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"There may be legitimate businesses out there who think that their time is so valuable that they shouldn’t have to waste time waiting for you to answer the phone while it rings. But nothing says “grifter” like a robo-caller. It’s impossible to miss. You say “hello” at least twice into dead air before the person who allegedly made a personal call to you picks up their phone to answer back. And then usually it’s a robot telling you that your credit card account is OK, but you can do better if you take their offer. When a real person actually answers, you can often hear the noise of a boiler room call center in the background.
But a matchmaking business? Yeah, I know. I’m old, I’m ugly, I’m poor and my health isn’t so good. Even if one did get find it by accident looking at dating sites on the internet, who would I be kidding? But a callback from matchmaking business? Here you go looking for one of the most intimate and private relationships one can possibly have, and they use a robo-caller. With boiler room noise. Nothing says romance like a robo-caller, eh? I’d say it sets a new standard.
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Somehow, I just don’t believe in trickle-down economics. What the first George Bush called “voodoo economics”. Tell me how many ordinary middle class jobs Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have created out of their own millions of income. How many factories have they built? How many stores have they opened? How many new technologies have they helped to create making direct venture capital investments in small businesses with their own money? How many microloans have they made to help ordinary people? How many mortgages have they or their wealth personally financed to help people reach the American Dream? Without a record of experience and accomplishment like that, who are they to tell us that they can lead us out of the recession. Without efforts like those, it's all just posturing to justify paying lower taxes than middle class working people.
And Obama reminds me of an old joke of mine. You know you might be a lawyer if your pants are on fire. But if the fire has spread from your pants to your belly, then you know you’re a politician.
Speaking of lawyers; they like to build their arguments on the “reasonable person” hypothesis. A “reasonable person” is one whose thoughts and actions are so right and reasonable, that no one could possibly disagree with them. A lawyer often tells a jury what a “reasonable person” would think and find to save the jury the trouble of being reasonable persons and thinking for themselves. I say again, let’s send that guy to Congress – then we’ll get something done. Or dare one say, President?"
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