If the government is going to mandate this changeover than they should similarly intervene to mitigate the problems this will cause, regardless of whether those problems are truly profound. By an admittedly stretched analogy, if the government intervened to, say, make drinking or smoking illegal, it should take steps to provide for an adequate transition and for programs to help those addicted to these. Some people are, more or less, addicted to tv; or at least it is an integral, regular part of their life, for better or worse. To put people in a position of either losing tv in less than a month or of shelling out maybe $80 to keep watching seems an unnecessary burden, falling disproportionately on those not wealthy enough to have cable, dish, HD tv, nice computer screens to watch on, etc. Let's see Obama, the champion of the middle class and those below the middle class(I dare presume and hope), walk the talk on this.
Randall On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall < popoz...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Well television is one of those rights delineated in the constitution > right? > > What simply amazes me is that America is one of the richest poor nations in > the world. > > Stewart > > At 09:12 PM 1/23/2009, you wrote: > >> I think I should reiterate, we are talking about just televsion. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Tom Piwowar <t...@tjpa.com> 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. >> > > Rev. Stewart A. Marshall > mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net > Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org > Ozark, AL SL 82 > > > ************************************************************************* > ** 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/ ** *************************************************************************
