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Mealtime torment

The subject I am writing about concerns the well-being of all the retired Social Security recipients who are being deliberately harassed, annoyed and tormented seven days a week and usually around mealtime because the average retired senior citizen consumes their medications at this time. Many of these telemarketers or the companies that hire them could care less about the well-being of the thousands of retirees who are victims of circumstance every day because our laws are created around the all mighty American dollar instead of the thousands of elderly Americans who are deliberately ignored, I believe, by the elected officials.

I do not know of a single retired senior who is one bit happy with the way they are harassed seven days a week by these annoying phone calls. Are we expected to remain silent about how we are being harassed daily over our telephones? It is forcing us to revert to using words in our vocabulary that have never been printed in any newspaper …

Many of these unwanted annoyances are very disturbing, perplexing and unwanted by the average senior citizens of this country. Why don’t our laws that make it illegal to harass others include these companies who hire any character who is alive to do their dirty work for them? I guess the true definition of retirement in this country does not include the elderly whose only income is their monthly Social Security checks. It is time to wake up America.

Weldon C. Cohick Jr.

Linden

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