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Gonna be mighty tough to run for office in 2009 as an incumbent, being labeled "the guy who broke your tv".

Why all the bother, and wasted money spent on vouchers (which almost, but don't quite cover the cost of converters)? Easy. Congress has had their eyes on selling off that spectrum for years now. Sure, some will go to emergency responders, but the rest will be auctioned off to the highest bidder. Congress has been counting on having that cash coming in to fund pork barrel projects for quite a while now.
Posted by: tic swayback   Posted on: 03/12/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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So we're spending almost a billion dollars to subsidize TV?  Steve Summers | 03/12/07
Insane  voska | 03/12/07
Political nightmare  tic swayback | 03/12/07
Right on the mark!  George Mitchell | 03/12/07
Some worries though...  tic swayback | 03/12/07
That all sounds quite normal to me ..  George Mitchell | 03/12/07
That's three months AFTER the election!  tomford@... | 03/12/07
Probably a response to lobbiest  voska | 03/12/07
Another Government Boondoggle  Saugus | 03/12/07
2009 is looking like a good year  Jack-Booted EULA | 03/12/07
The price of converters just went up $80  du2vye | 03/12/07
Cable users not impacted?  JohnQPublic | 03/13/07
Only affects Over-The-Air signal, not cable  NotQuite | 03/13/07
I don't think that was the point  bus7821 | 03/13/07
Let them use Tivo!  hines1957@... | 03/14/07
Wish we could!  woscar | 03/20/07

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