12-29-2008, 04:16 AM
The text thing is a scam and ripoff.
That's simply not true. If you know that, then you're a liar. If you don't, then you really should familiarize yourself with free enterprise.
Carriers get the prices they do because the market will bear those prices. If we boycotted those services an/or carriers, the prices would plummet.
You can't sell what nobody will buy.
For instance, the fact is that ANYBODY who uses a cellphone is complicit in their own gouging because we pay for BOTH outgoing AND incoming calls. If that were proposed for land lines, we'd scream. We'd complain endlessly. We might even contact the companies and our various government representatives.
And we might, heaven forbid, even vote with our dollars.
That's simply not true. If you know that, then you're a liar. If you don't, then you really should familiarize yourself with free enterprise.
Carriers get the prices they do because the market will bear those prices. If we boycotted those services an/or carriers, the prices would plummet.
You can't sell what nobody will buy.
For instance, the fact is that ANYBODY who uses a cellphone is complicit in their own gouging because we pay for BOTH outgoing AND incoming calls. If that were proposed for land lines, we'd scream. We'd complain endlessly. We might even contact the companies and our various government representatives.
And we might, heaven forbid, even vote with our dollars.