AP reports: “The federal government said Friday it will begin mailing out $40 coupons next week to consumers to help pay for converter boxes that will save their analog sets from becoming obsolete.”
In case you missed it, our nanny gummint decided in the past to protect us from analog TV signals by mandating that all programming be broadcast in digital format in February, 2009. The converter changes the over-the-air digital signal to analog. In other words, I’m forced to pay $40-$70 just to be able to keep watching the analog signal I get now. I’m not paying that money to get something new and improved- I’m paying merely to maintain what I already have! Thanks Gummint!
Our masters have seen to it to spend $990 million of your stolen money to pay for these coupons and “cover administrative costs, which are capped at $110 million.” Exactly what does a coupon administrator do, anyway? The job looks like it must pay pretty well. Where do I apply?
But guess what? Garbage doesn’t appear any more attractive through digital eyes than it does in analog. I got a better idea. I’ll quit watching altogether what little I watch now, which totals exactly one TV series. I can wait a little while and watch those episodes on DVD.
There’s no limit to what the state can do to disrupt, impoverish, complicate, confuse, and generally make one’s life miserable. What better way to fight back than not watch its number one source of propaganda?