$50 for a converter is a lot for some of us, particularly if you have more than 1 tvs. One should not jump to assumptions to readily - I, for instance, have 2 tvs (one in living room and one in bedroom) which I didn't pay for; one being given by a family member, another recently acquired from Freecycle. And the first tv is decades old, which shows one can have something they got years ago but they may be in an entirely different financial circumstance today.
As someone else said, this looks like the latest development or maneuver to eventually drive those without cable or satellite to pay for these ways of getting tv, with the usual, ever-increasing, regressive fees and taxes. Randall On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Tom Piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > >I agree the coupon program should never have been implemented. Even > >the poorest of people can't be all _that_ poor if they own a TV. Not > >like the $50 is going to break them. > > Spoken like a rich capitalist. $40 will pay for a week of food. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
