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Phone Survey Sent Up Red Flags!
WVLadyRebel
Published on November 27, 2012
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Don't know if any of you received a phone survey like I did last night, but after thinking the entire conversation and questions I was asked, I got a very strange feeling. The questions started out harmless enough asking about smoking bans and my opinion on banning flavored cigars, the ones with cherry or rum flavoring, and others with different fruit and even vanilla.
As the phone survey continued, the questions started becoming less like a survey and more like a test. You know, the kind that want to gauge people's resistance to certain actions that are being suggested. Would I contact my members of Congress and exactly how seriously would I take that action. Considering I am a big fan of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights and not a fan of big government, I gave the man some very serious answers.
Now if all these other questions were not enough, he brought up banning soda pop as he called it, later changing it to 'soft drinks' and even frozen or fresh fruit juices. Did I buy fruit juice of any kind? What about buying soft drinks? Was I totally against a ban of soft drinks? Would I go to the State Capital and protest and let my voice be heard if I were contacted by my government representatives?
The man started to ask even more serious questions that I must say, riled me up. Did I think it was ok for employers to refuse to hire people if they smoked or used tobacco products? Did I mind future bans on the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products in pharmacies or stores that had pharmacies?
What was my thoughts on having the bans and laws made the same across the country? How did I feel about the Federal and State governments taking care of all these matters since they knew more than the local officials?
Needless to say, I stated that I was totally opposed to employers being allowed to refuse to hire anyone just because they used some form of tobacco. Last count I had, we had rights in this country and we were all able to exercise those rights. I said they tried to stop alcohol use during Prohibition and that didn't work, and people would still get tobacco products if they wanted them bad enough.
I may smoke, but I do not like the smell of cigarette smoke indoors or from another cigarette. I do not feel that people should smoke around others, especially children. I am a respectful smoker and try to be very careful where I smoke when out from my home. Not everyone is so kind, but if they were it might not be such a battle to ban tobacco products.
My biggest problem with the government telling any American what they can and cannot use, is the fact that they will go to something else and it will never stop. "Big Brother" needs to tend to his own mess, aka the Fiscal Cliff, and stop sticking his nose in our individual personal business.
Now that we have Obamacare, I have to wonder what will happen next. With the government in charge of so much, will they take our liberties in the name of health care? It could be done if they so desired.
Now you know what I have had on my mind since yesterday evening. The more I thought about the questions and comments, the more red flags I started to see popping up around America. What would you have thought?
As the phone survey continued, the questions started becoming less like a survey and more like a test. You know, the kind that want to gauge people's resistance to certain actions that are being suggested. Would I contact my members of Congress and exactly how seriously would I take that action. Considering I am a big fan of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights and not a fan of big government, I gave the man some very serious answers.
Now if all these other questions were not enough, he brought up banning soda pop as he called it, later changing it to 'soft drinks' and even frozen or fresh fruit juices. Did I buy fruit juice of any kind? What about buying soft drinks? Was I totally against a ban of soft drinks? Would I go to the State Capital and protest and let my voice be heard if I were contacted by my government representatives?
The man started to ask even more serious questions that I must say, riled me up. Did I think it was ok for employers to refuse to hire people if they smoked or used tobacco products? Did I mind future bans on the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products in pharmacies or stores that had pharmacies?
What was my thoughts on having the bans and laws made the same across the country? How did I feel about the Federal and State governments taking care of all these matters since they knew more than the local officials?
Needless to say, I stated that I was totally opposed to employers being allowed to refuse to hire anyone just because they used some form of tobacco. Last count I had, we had rights in this country and we were all able to exercise those rights. I said they tried to stop alcohol use during Prohibition and that didn't work, and people would still get tobacco products if they wanted them bad enough.
I may smoke, but I do not like the smell of cigarette smoke indoors or from another cigarette. I do not feel that people should smoke around others, especially children. I am a respectful smoker and try to be very careful where I smoke when out from my home. Not everyone is so kind, but if they were it might not be such a battle to ban tobacco products.
My biggest problem with the government telling any American what they can and cannot use, is the fact that they will go to something else and it will never stop. "Big Brother" needs to tend to his own mess, aka the Fiscal Cliff, and stop sticking his nose in our individual personal business.
Now that we have Obamacare, I have to wonder what will happen next. With the government in charge of so much, will they take our liberties in the name of health care? It could be done if they so desired.
Now you know what I have had on my mind since yesterday evening. The more I thought about the questions and comments, the more red flags I started to see popping up around America. What would you have thought?
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