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Official DTV Converter Box Coupons for Americans
Ant writes "The official Digital Television/DTV Converter Box Coupon Program is now online. Congress created it for households wishing to keep using their analog TV sets and use over-the-air antennae to get TV feeds. After February 17, 2009. The Program allows American households to obtain up to two coupons, each worth $40, that can be applied toward the cost of eligible converter boxes. A TV connected to cable, satellite, or other pay TV service does not require a TV converter box from this program."
Well, that's in addition to the only three things that our government is currently subsidizing: the military, the high-fructose corn syrup producers/growers, and the labor costs for the high-tech companies. While this isn't perfect, it could be much worse.
I am sure in almost any other First/Second World country things are in fact much worse, and your govt also subsidizes your healthcare, your high school and college education, your low-tech and unskilled workers, your welfare bums, your media and TV companies, and so on.
See, there's a reason US of A is still number one.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
And more than enough time to do the switch... It's been planned for years, surely you've bought a new TV or two in that time?
Anyone who bought an analogue only TV in the last few years should contact me, I have some analogue cellphones and 386 PC's for sale.
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Socialism? WTF are you smoking? We are the most socially backwards nation in the industrialized world!
Smoking? Ok, I know wht you're getting your Rush from. At any rate, since you apparently get all your news from the fox in the henhouse, you wouldn't know that there is no more Public Aid. The entitlement Aid to Families with Dependant Children (AFDC) was shut down under the Clinton (D) administration. We now have Transitional Assistance for Needy Familiues (TANF) which is NOT an entitlement and has a two year limit, five years in a lifetime.
You might also know that also unlike any other undustrial nation, we don't have universal health care. The politicians are pushing for it, but guess what? The insurance companies who are the leeches at the heart of our health care woes are still in the game under plans by both wings of the Republicrat party. The Republican wing wants tax incentives and the Democrat wing wants expanded dcoverage to the poor who are called "lower middle class".
Anyone who thinks the US is Socialist is nothing short of a Facist.
-mcgrew
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
The U.S. military/industrial complex retains its medium of propaganda at taxpayer expense, thereby excluding candidates that would challenge its power.
That doesn't change much. They could've cut taxes and let people spend their money on whatever they wanted.
I already have a digital TV, what good is one of these coupons?
Maybe not