My wife and I got a lot of laughter out of this:
Grandma's little helper
Sep 23rd 2004 | WASHINGTON, DC
>From The Economist print edition
[SNIP]
The White House underestimated the confusion the new law would cause.
Any big change in the vast Medicare bureaucracy risks chaos, but this
law is spectacularly complicated. Most of the changes do not start
until 2006. The one benefit that people can see before the
election�the introduction of drug discount cards�is only temporary.
These Medicare drug cards, introduced in June, have many good
features. They bring discounted prices, and poorer Americans get a
$600 credit on their cards. But relying on a website to help people
work out which card brings them the cheapest drugs has proved a
blunder: only one in four older Americans has EVER USED THE INTERNET.
[SNIP]
My wife and I came up with a good commercial:
Seniors! Getting your new Government drug discount is as simple as 1-2-3!
1.) First, use your Wi-Fi or Broadband connection to anonymous FTP to
ftp.cheapdrugs.gov.
2.) Next, download the MPEG and PDF from ~anonymous/public.
3.) Simply load the MPEG onto any DIVX codec compatible device (at
least MPEG-2, layer 3), and, if you'd like, stream it to your
Bluetooth PDA.
(If you don't have the MPEG-2 layer 3 codec, simply download the MP3
and use any 22.050 kHz, 80 kbps MP3 decoder.)
Cheap drugs are just clicks away!
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