Posted by
Dave Kooker on Monday, February 23, 2009 3:30:26 PM
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Per the request of the Messiah Barack Hussein Obama, the official conversion of the analog to digital television airwaves was delayed. The House approved the bill, 264 to 158, a week after the Senate did the same. Although television broadcasters say they were ready for the 17 Feburary 2009 transition, they are now required to keep broadcasting in analog until 12 June 2009. This gives the American citizen even more time to prepare their telvision sets. The official government communication says it also allows the Federal government to revamp its TV Converter Box subsidy program, which had run out of money, and issue coupons to the millions of people on a waiting list.
Just like with all government initiatives coming out of the Obama’s presidential administration, the responsible citizens have to wait for and experience the consequences of the irresponsible citizens. Being the responsible citizen I proactively applied for my TV Converter Box coupon via the Internet and purchased the TV Converter Box at one of the approved retail outlets, which accepted the 40-dollar coupon. Within 10 minutes, the TV Converter Box was plugged in, the antenna wires were installed, and the channel search was performed. Everything was ready to go except for only half of the television broadcasters were even broadcasting in digital or were broadcasting digital at a very low wattage. The TV Converter Box in Jacksonville FL has been pretty much useless until the beginning of February 2009 when the broadcasters boosted their broadcasting wattage and the NBC and ABC broadcasters began to broadcast in digital.
The result of the conversion delay has had some really nice results. The analog channels are not being broadcasted at full strength and the digital channel broadcast wattage has been reduced since they are not mandated to broadcast in digital yet. So while us responsible citizens wait till June 12 2009, I can decide whether to watch very grainy analog channels or very choppy digital channels.
If 850,000 deadbeat irresponsible citizens on the Gulf Coast could not find the motivation to scrape the barnacles off their backend and flee a life-threatening category 5 Hurricane (Katrina 2005) with a four-day notice, does the irresponsible enabling Federal government really think that delaying the analog to digital conversion from February 2009 to June 2009 is really going to help the irresponsible subset of society? I bet even if the Federal government was proactive and signed these individuals up and delivered the TV Converter Box to their doorstep, the irresponsible citizen would still not make the effort to install the TV Converter Box to their antenna and television.
Since Obama’s presidential administration’s principle is the glorification and enablement of the irresponsible citizen, lets expand the functionality of the 2010 US Census counters. Since the US Census counters will already be going door-to-door to perform our Nation’s headcount, just have the US Census counters perform the 10-minute TV Converter Box installation. Maybe then there will be no further delay excuses why America cannot move forward and actually make the analog to digital television airwave conversion.
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