Thank God for the $650 million going to the Digital-To-Analog Converter Box Program “to ensure a timely conversion of analog to digital television.” That’s more than the Navy gets for maintenance, more than the Indians get for infrastructure, more than the Small Business Administration gets for making loans, and of course, more important to a “timely” economic recovery. Sick.
I’m extremely interested in the way an estimated 6.5 million Americans will react when, next month, they are suddenly confronted with no available television because they didn’t purchase a digital converter box. Many government officials seem to think they will riot in the streets, hence the seemingly massive allocation of funds ($10 per hypothetically affected person). Should we be ashamed that we need to spend $100MM’s of taxpayer money simply in order to keep the populace of America complacent? Once the deadline passes, I figure we’ll be able to measure how effective the government’s investment was by counting the number of people who are getting trampled during Wal-Mart stampedes to buy converter boxes.
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