A Tip or two on answering the phone

You get a telephone call that looks like it could be from someone you know – as it shows the same area code as yours or a number you kinda’ think you remember.

Should you answer the call?

In either case, probably not. These may be folks fishing for your data and information, which they can use against your best interest or attempts to sell you something you may not want, nor need. And despite what the phone manufacturers and companies say, the apps on phones don’t perform as claimed. Privacy, silenced calls, blocked senders, etc., are tied to other apps that do not work properly when these apps are applied.

There’s a reason for it: The phone companies are making a profit on the calls you receive, as well as those you originate.

But if you don’t answer the phone, sometimes, you get fussed at by a friend or a business acquaintance.

There is an answer:

Only answer your phone when the incoming call is from someone in your Contacts list or it has a caller’s name associated with it.

When you receive a call from a name associated with a phone number in your Contact’s list the name and number shows on your phone. It also works this way on all of your outgoing calls when you associate your name with your telephone number. Your name
and number will display to whomever you make a phone call.

Of course, IF you’re making a lot of crank calls yourself, it may not be such a good idea. But it is something, however, that every business seeking additional customers should do.  And people who want to talk with their friends and relatives.

Business firms, medical, financial and professional offices and services spend thousands – sometimes millions – of dollars to get their names (advertising) in front of people. But they fail to take advantage of this relatively free advertising venue, which is a service to their customers and / or clients.

Why?

Or why not? Open your phone, go to Settings, then Phone. and enter your name and number.

In this age of increasing spam, phishing, ransom and malware attacks, you and your clients and customers not only want to know but need to know who is calling them.

Like a growing number of other people, IF you call and I can’t answer at the that time, and you don’t leave a message, I’m not wasting my time to call you back.

The best option for cybersecurity is just don’t cooperate with those firms that don’t want you to know who is calling.

 

Why would anyone want to talk to an unknown person at an unknown telephone number for an unknown reason?

In this digital age, the old bromide that “curiosity is a sign of intelligence” is set aside by the one reminding us that “curiosity killed the cat.”

Since voters allowed elected politicians to exchange the Private Enterprise System for State Capitalism (the partnership between Big Business and Big Government), customers, clients and taxpayers are treated as resources, instead of the firms and government being a resource for the customer or client – or the taxpayer.

 

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  dissent

Some people don’t like those who dissent from their ideas on how some things are done. They especially don’t like dissent by the Paris Texas Chamber of Commerce.

Since January 6, 2024, we’ve had two emails telling us that those in charge of “the way things are done” don’t like us.

We don’t care. We don’t trust people without a sense of humor or who cannot or are unwilling to think.

People who don’t have good ideas always throw rocks at people who do. It makes them feel better.

But there’s no growth or progress without intelligent dissent.

Dissent brings transition, changing that swirl of information within our minds, separating and streamlining and bringing clarity to that jumble of conflicting thoughts and emotions.

Without dissent there would never be a horse race or a football game. (My horse can beat your horse; my team can beat your team, etc.)

Unfortunately, the emotionally-disturbed and mentally-deranged disguise “dissent” and, like spoiled children, angrily use it to get their own way; going on a crying spree or a temper tantrum. But that’s not dissent, it’s destructive behavior, which should never be tolerated by adults.

Those eager or willing to preserve the status quo use dissent as an example of something undesired or harmful.

Ideas, however, should always be welcomed as not all ideas have the same value. Where people have a choice bad ideas eventually die – as shown by quick fads, styles, and no-taste that come and go. A good idea, one of an enduring value, however, will stand the test of time – and the challenge of dissent.

An endless variety of thieves – ranging from purse-snatchers, to those who steal from friends, private homes, businesses, banks, or even the tax from the Widow’s mite ( to give to the rich) – act on a bad idea.

Facing all this dishonesty is the great idea of dissent summed up in four little words: “You shall not steal.”

But we will have government do it for us . . .

And we have a government fighting to preserve a status quo while actively ignoring the idea that “Good fences make good neighbors.” And if you dissent from government policies, you are an extremist or domestic terrorists.

There must be dissent.

Without dissent, how do we know the value of what we’re doing? What are the yardsticks we’re using to measure the benefits of some idea?

Sooner or later, all ideas need challenging.

 

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the paris texas city manager tells us the city is adding a Public Information (BS) Officer to the staff.

Paris needs a public information officer like a stray dog needs more fleas.

 

While two years of weeds were still standing in some places and a new crop growing all over town, the City of Paris grew an assistant city manager and a deputy city manger to help the city manager to grow more government.

As the Paris Texas Chamber of Commerce previously asked, What did Paris need most, weeds cut or a larger city administration?”

Can anyone explain to local taxpayers why the city’s government is growing when the U. S. Census show that Paris has been losing population since 2000?

In the last two years alone, the city budget grew in excess of seven percent (at 3.5% compounded each year) which, in ten years, will add an estimated 40-percent to the taxpayer’s cost of government.

Over the last 2-years, have city services gotten 7% better? Were 7% of the city streets improved? Older neighborhoods improved 7%? Net jobs increased 7%? Have family net incomes across the board increased by 7%? In-city population increased by 7%?

Paris has been, and is, told a lot of things. Some are true; most are not. An example being, “No new taxes.” (Tax rates, like appraisals, can go down or up or stay the same. When appraised values go up, and rates stay the same, you still pay more. The increase is a new tax.)

Appraisals are guesstimates on market value, and when the guess is not correct, it’s wrong. A property’s actual value is only determined by its sold price, which has little to do with appraisal guesstimates.

 

Adding two new assistant city managers have certainly increased the city’s administrative costs over 7% — and we’re now adding a Public Information (or BS) Officer, who will spend 30percent of their time telling us how things are going good in Paris, 33.5-percent covering up for city managers and assistants and council members, 66.5percent in liaison (politicking) with friends to get their stories straight, and 90-percent of the time hoping some of us believe (him, her, or whatever alphabet they prefer).

 

The weeds keep standing, litter continues its decorating of streets, cars and other vehicles are parked in front yards, junk is in open view, and Paris increases the city budget to assure an administrative control overload.

It is in development and implementation of policies that encourage private business investments in local families and neighborhoods, which keep the economic gates open to equal economic opportunity, are how communities are more likely to achieve success.

Government is like tying one end of a 100-foot rope around your neck and the other end to an 18-wheeler leaving a Kerrville, Texas, truck stop on its way to El Paso – 490 miles and 7 hours and 30 minutes away on Interstate 10. The first 200-feet are not so bad.

But when that big rig starts hitting the posted 80MPH speed limit, you begin to lose tract of things.

And government has no speed limits of its own.

 

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