ABOUT POLITICAL ROBO-CALLS

What to do? Do you hang up? Do you listen? Do you call them to have them take your number off the list?

Last elections I got more than my share of robo-calls. For the most part they were from Republicans and a few of the Democrats asking for money. But the Republican calls didn’t ask for a donation as a rule…instead they wanted you to listen to some odious message and that got me fired up a few times.

I remember one particular one from The College Republicans that I had to actually put down the phone before I would throw it against the wall. Such were the distortions, lies and askew ideology they were spurting out that I could not help myself but to get angry…anger out of frustration because had it been a live person I would have chewed them a new asshole.

I have vacillated on the issue and I have come to one conclusion: that I want to hear what the sons of bitches have to say because that way I am better informed and can fire back should I ever run into some misguided soul who would defends the Republican agenda. They are hiding under rocks now you know. They will only appear on Fox but the general public is spared for the most part from people in their own circles expressing any approval of the Republicans and their agenda.

Why is that, you might ask? First, because George W. Bush’s failed Presidency is still fresh in our minds, the damage he did to our country affected almost every American and contrary to what Republicans think that people have short memory spans, if you are hurt bad enough you tend to look for the reason of your misery and find out who caused it.

Then the Republicans have been conducting a scorch-earth agenda to make Obama a one term President and have blocked, delayed and sabotaged each and every effort that was put before them to correct the mess they created and left behind…it is best exemplified by the lowest approval in history that Congress has.Never mind that it hurts the country and the majority of the people.

The other issue I have a beef with is the solicitation of contributions…be it political or charitable. What these people calling don’t realize is that if you are having troubles putting food on your table, how could you possibly donate any money? One day I actually added up the requests for donations and between the e-mails and the phone calls, I came up with a minimum of $232.00…that is assuming I don’t make a larger donation.

How and when is this going to stop? When Citizen’s United is somehow made illegal and when the very rich and the corporations are no longer considered people…even though real people have to disclose their donations and have limits, while imaginary people like “CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE, MY FRIEND” can do so anonymously.