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In the Friday edition of the Los Angeles Daily News, there's a piece about Obama lobbying to have the deadline pushed back... I have mixed emotions about it. It would be great if they just forget it altogether, but if it's going to happen, let it be like a dental appointment and get it over with so we don't have to look forward to it.
We have bigger fish to fry in the economy, and we can't afford to give everybody free TV converters anyway when we can't even give everybody food & shelter. My mother was a teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District for several years in the 1960s, and she always puzzled over why some of the poorest people in South Central Los Angeles where she taught, would have no shoes, be malnourished, but when my Mother went on home visits, the family would have a brand-new color TV and a brand-new Cadillac (with empty gas tank). So I guess this is the logic applied in prioritizing the free digital boxes.
Charles
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Collecting & restoring TVs in Los Angeles since age 10
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