Still Verizon

Every time I try to call verizon, I get someone in the Philippines that has a very limited command of the English language.  When I ask to be transferred to the states, I am put on hold, then cut off. And their website is useless.  Like I said, I feel that if we are to have free enterprise, then we should have access to all the phone companies in the United States and we should be able to pick and chose which one we want.  As it is now, the country is divided up into territories.  You don't have a choice in land lines and very little choice in cell service.  That is not free enterprise.  That is monopoly.  Back in the 70's, I think, the Congress broke up the Bell telephone company citing the fact that it was stifling competition and was a monopoly.  So what we have now is a bunch of little half-assed companies that are just out to gouge the customer.  There is not competition and no free enterprise.  All the pols did was stack the deck against the consumer.  But, hey, that's nothing new, now is it?  What the companies see as free enterprise is captive consumers that are forced to buy their products.  Look at what the Bush regime tried to do with the drug companies.  At the push of the big drug companies, laws were passed to keep us from buying any medications from out of the country even though those are the very same drugs sold in the United States at 4 times the price.  With the help of Congress, the businesses are really screwing us and the politicians are getting rich for doing these favors for the companies.  And every two years they come around and tell us how much they have done for us and we get poorer and poorer.  Great country.  And this is the best we have to offer.