
The Chatter Telephone has had several looks over the years. Chatter is rechargeable and has nine hours of talk time.And he's proud of all you've accomplished. But his eyes don't look you up and down out of judgment. For the first time, there is a mobile phone that doesn't hide the fact that it's watching you.His rubber wheels won't roll off your desk if you use the lock switch at the bottom.Outgoing calls begin just by picking up the receiver and dialing. He does ring for incoming calls and answers with a simple pick-up.There's an optional speaker phone button, for hands-free talk.Chatter will say every number you dial as your finger rotates the wheel, providing reassurance and validation that you are a dialing master.
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But now, 60 years since it first was introduced, you can take your business calls through the big, red plastic handset. It's got eyes that wobble when the wheels roll. It still has a rainbow-colored rotary dial.

The iconic Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone pull toy has been made into a working Bluetooth-connected handset for grownups. Join thousands already receiving our daily newsletter.Baby's first "mobile" phone is now an actual mobile phone. Readers may email Cal Thomas at Look for Cal Thomas’ latest book “America’s Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers and the Future of the United States” (HarperCollins/Zondervan). But when Democrats are drunk on spending and power and too many Americans have an entitlement mentality, it doesn’t appear either side is prepared to go cold turkey when it comes to spending. More spending, as in “The Inflation Reduction Act,” won’t reduce inflation, any more than drinking more alcohol leads to sobriety. Only government seems to grow without end. Businesses do this, or something similar. Every program and agency that is not living up to its original purpose and can’t be done better in the private sector should be eliminated. If Republicans regain control of at least the House of Representatives in November, they should commission an outside firm with no connection to a party or politician to conduct a complete audit of the federal government. I am going to repeat a suggestion I have made before and maybe this time some legislators will pay attention. Politicians know this, which is why trying to cut even the rate of increased spending for outdated programs is treated like taking away a child’s favorite toy. Addictions, whether to substances, or government, are hard to break. Though some of his programs were necessary during the Depression, the idea of “entitlement” grew. Credit, or blame, Franklin Roosevelt for expanding the role, reach and cost of government. For many it has become a first resource, while in the Coolidge and earlier years it was a last resort. Government now sees itself as the primary provider of life’s necessities. There is a certain elitism about this bill, as well as there is with many things that come from Washington. The federal government is taking in record amounts of revenue, but politicians can’t control themselves when it comes to spending. Such bipartisanship appears to be long gone. Part of that had to do with welfare reform, which resulted from cooperation between Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich. The last president to preside over surpluses was Bill Clinton, from 1998 to 2001. The national debt increased by $7.8 trillion during the Trump administration. Republicans don’t have clean hands when it comes to government spending, a leading cause of inflation. The Penn Wharton Budget Model, a group of economists and data scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, concludes the law will have no impact when it comes to reducing inflation.Īn analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office finds that audits of taxpayers making under $400,000 annually will account for about $20 billion in revenue for the Inflation Reduction Act.

And it doesn’t do what Biden and Democrats say it will do, particularly on inflation. The new law puts government ahead of business and diminishes the power of the individual in favor of the power of Washington.
