Have you noticed you can search the truth older folks....I being one once with the boomer title is not the same meaning anymore. People born from 1946 to 1964 is the new description perhaps you are in the group?

To venture a guess, because I am a "boomer", boomers answer all phone calls because during the first half of their lives (or more) every time the phone rang and you were home to pick it up it was usually something important or someone you (or someone in your family) actually wanted to talk to. Telemarketing and phone scams hadn't been invented yet. We didn't have a recorder on the line to take a message so if you didn't pick up you missed the call and had no idea who called. The first phone number in my house as a child was a "party line" if anyone remembers what those were.

Today, on the cell phone, unrecognized numbers can be important (like a doctors office) or not. Usually, I don't say an actual word and just do a throat clear in case a scammer is recording my voice. If a not wanted caller (computer, scammer, marketer) starts blathering I hang up, but old habits still have me picking up the call.

I’m just going to say this once please don’t be offended but I’ve never understood the compelling desire boomers have to answer EVERY phone call. If you don’t recognize the number kick it to voicemail. If you do pick up and there’s a long silence after your first “hello” either hang up or start screwing with them.
The days of this nation being a “High Trust” society are long gone. Act accordingly.
That is all.

Maybe the callers ARE basically illiterate and read from a script (barely) after a computer selects your number from a random list. I've tried asking a question and it's like catching a deer in the headlights. I hang up.

The way I see it those elderly American citizens can't afford to give The Big Guy(s) a cut of the action, so The Big Guy(s) funnel the money through those that can. The Big Guy(s) have robbed the SS Ponzi for all they could and now are going elsewhere to loot.

It's the new language. It's called "Gibberish".

And also this supposed food card. I have two friends who only get $800 a month from SS and they can't qualify for this dumb food card. Why are we giving Ukraine $120 Billion dollars and we have people who need food cards...American citizens?

Why is our government allowing people who sound illiterate to harass us with calls and they advertise a benefit to us if we add Humana and other companies to our Medicare program. I've told hundreds of people 'I am not eligible for your program. Why are you selling insurance for elderly people?' Can anyone answer me about what this is?