{"id":75686,"date":"2020-10-27T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75686"},"modified":"2020-10-25T12:28:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T17:28:26","slug":"robo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75686","title":{"rendered":"Robo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>During election season, I get lots of robocalls encouraging me to get out and vote for The People&#8217;s Choice, The Working Man, the guy who struggled his way up and wiil take on the big special interests. They&#8217;re annoying, but they&#8217;re seasonal, so I can put up with them.<br>What puzzles me are the other robocalls. The IRS has levied a judgment on my Social Security account. My automobile warranty is about to expire. I can get rid of my timeshare condo without paying any fees. I&#8217;m paying too much for health insurance.<br>I can see where get-out-the-vote calls might actually make a difference, but honestly, how many of these other robocalls can possibly connect with a person gullible enough to call and give out their personal information?<br>If these calls are targeting the elderly, the ignorant, the vulnerable, then they are particularly heinous and the government should be doing something about them. Since they&#8217;re not, I&#8217;m going to step up and offer my services. I&#8217;ll issue Letters of Marque and Reprisal to anyone who wants to go head hunting, you can keep the loot you collect, and I will pay a bounty for each telemarketers head delivered to my doorstep. No CODs.<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Phone spam strikes me as supremely counterproductive (outside the few cases Joe notes).   But it must be working <em>somewhere<\/em>, or why would people be doing it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During election season, I get lots of robocalls encouraging me to get out and vote for The People&#8217;s Choice, The Working Man, the guy who struggled his way up and wiil take on the big special interests. They&#8217;re annoying, but they&#8217;re seasonal, so I can put up with them.What puzzles me are the other robocalls. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75693,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75686\/revisions\/75693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}