More loss of personal responsibility in America

[Anonymous]

My company already does this. I get messages when I'm at 60, 90 and 100%.

We are ruined for sure now!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a free market conservative, and I think it's great that a company wants to do this - I think they should.

What I don't think is great is that the federal government should MANDATE that a company do this. I also don't think the federal government should be mandating what I eat, what I drink and who I have sex with.

But that is another fight for another day.

I guess we at least agree on one thing: we should get rid of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are concerned about money, you should not have a cell phone, you should not have cable TV, you should not have a car, you should not be eating out. The list can go on and on, and you can have the government warn you every time your power bill is getting to high, your bank account too low, your weight too high, etc etc

You can’t govern stupidity, trust me I know I am stupid

Yeah! At long last someone to speak for the noisy majority, in which I include myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. It is not the cellphone company's responsibility to keep track of your minutes. If you go over your minutes and keep talking you should be charged. If you want unlimited minutes then pay for it.

You know I've been thinking that putting up warning lights and gates at railroad crossings is not only a waste of money but is also eroding Americans' ability to watch out for themselves. What happened to the good old days when people stopped and looked both ways before crossing the tracks? It's making us weak. No wonder we have such a huge national deficit!

[Anonymous]

What is ruining the country is the effort of some to allow for-profit businesses to go virtually unchecked without any regulation whatsoever. The assumption that companies can and will regulate themselves to the market was clearly demonstrated to be a fallacy, as we all observed how well our banking system regulated itself over the past 10 years, and how good that was for the country. Or private health insurance companies.

[Anonymous]

I'm pro-regulation, but there is the problem that the regulators are imperfect. So we consumers blithely go about our way assuming the government is protecting us, when the regulators may be either too few, too inefficient, or too corrupt for the job.

So I think there may be something to the arguments of those who complain that big government weakens us. But I still believe that the solution is twofold: improve regulation and warn people that they still need to watch out for themselves even as the government is doing its bit to help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My company already does this. I get messages when I'm at 60, 90 and 100%.

We are ruined for sure now!

what company? I need that

[Anonymous]

I'm pro-regulation, but there is the problem that the regulators are imperfect. So we consumers blithely go about our way assuming the government is protecting us, when the regulators may be either too few, too inefficient, or too corrupt for the job.

So I think there may be something to the arguments of those who complain that big government weakens us. But I still believe that the solution is twofold: improve regulation and warn people that they still need to watch out for themselves even as the government is doing its bit to help.
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Agreed.

[Anonymous]

What I really don't understand is how someone would view this proposed rule as "more loss of personal responsibility in America". If you, as a consumer, have more information, then you can make an informed choice for which you can and indeed should be held personally responsible. The only people who incur extra phone charges are those who either (a) choose to do so or (b) don't know that their limit has been exceeded. What's wrong with the companies telling you what's what so you can make a choice rather than taking advantage of your mistake.

Also, people talk about personal responsibility like it only applies to people and not companies which, I suppose we should simply expect, will always try to take advantage of consumers. Don't Verizon, Sprint, AT&T etc. ALSO have a responsibility to keep their customer's informed?

[Anonymous]

I'm a conservative and I have no problem with this. The fact is, the people who continuously go over the minute allowance are probably the ones least likely and able to pay the overage charges. When the consumer doesn't pay the bill or files for bankruptcy, all of the costs get passed on to the rest of us.