One Billion Dollars
Posted on March 13, 2007 by Tito
The numbers are in: One Billion dollars is how much it costs to keep America safe. And the only way to do it is to break our TVs. Oh well, guess it’s time to be a patriot and buy a $5,000 HDTV. It’s for the children:
Congress set the deadline several years ago in an effort to free the nation’s airwaves for public safety and other services.
“The whole digital TV transition will enable public safety responders to have more spectrum for more operability and public safety uses,” said Todd Sedmak, a spokesman for the telecommunications administration.
To “fix” otherwise working tv’s that will be intentionally broken, the Department of Commerce1 has set aside $990,000,000 (with an “emergency” $510,000,000 waiting in the wings — my bet is that that will get spent, too) to partially subsidize converters that tv owners can duct tape to their boxes.
1 Glad to see we have the Department of Commerce tasked with paying for our safety. It only makes sense when Homeland Security is protecting our Commerce.
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