>Senator wants $3B in digital TV aid
>Subsidy plan would ensure older TV sets still work after broadcasters switch to digital signals.
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>"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens said Wednesday he plans to propose a $3 billion subsidy program to ensure older television sets still work when the transition to better quality, digital broadcasts is completed."
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>http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/21/technology/digital_tv.reut
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>Why do we have to pay out of federal monies for people to watch soap operas in digital format? If they want it tso badly, let them pay for it!
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>And I thought these guys were professed "fiscal conservatives", yet they have created the biggest deficit in history. More spending, more corruption. When will this end?

Alex,

Originally, I was on the side of the government (read GWB) about Iraq. Shortly after the invasion, I was talking with a Viet Nam vet and asked him what he thought. He said, "They better < expletive > well find weapons of mass destruction". "If they don't", I said, "Bush won't be able to get elected dog catcher in Texas."

How wrong I was.

We have gone from a budget surplus to a deficit partially because of Iraq. That the only reason? No, but consider that in the history of this country, if not the history of the world, this is the first time, in a period of "shared sacfrice" (IOW, war), that there's been a tax cut.

I believe now that we shouldn't have gone in in the first place, and, second, we've no exit strategy. Our best and finest, just like Viet Nam, are being taken from their parents and families, for an unfounded cause.