Pushing Back Digital Date Pointless
Sean Faye
Issue date: 12/21/08 Section: Impact Staff Blogs
Feb. 11 - The economy is well on its way down the tubes. There has been an official change in power. People are starving for things to get better.
So President Obama went and did the one thing that will undoubtedly stimulate the economy and pushed back the date in which television will go digital.
The government, who has already spent millions of dollars attempting to prepare the country for the switch to digital, decided that pushing the date back will help prepare the remaining six percent who somehow did not get the hint for the last 20 years.
As of Feb. 4, The House of Representatives voted 264 to 158 to delay the transition to June 12, and Obama is expected to sign the bill as well.
With all of the ridiculous commercials telling of what exactly to do if you are not ready, and the fact that 94 percent of the country is prepared, it begs the question as to why exactly this push back is happening.
It's not as if television is absolutely necessary for everyone to have, and my guess is that most who still have the bunny ears are not huge watchers anyway, so there truly seems to be absolutely no solid reason. I'm searching around, and I've yet to get a groundbreaking answer.
To me, the president and all of Congress need to put all of their attention to one specific problem, the economy. Every day people are losing their jobs or losing significant amounts of money in their 401Ks or other retirement plans, so it would seem trivial that they would actually take valuable time to think about television of all things.
This may possibly be the reason why our modern society is so dependent on technology. Many authors have written books and other stories warning everyone what could happen if we continue on the current path we are on. Now whether or not you believe that eventually everything will be robots is one thing, but the fact still remains that people do not "need" television, so this entire pushback is absolutely ridiculous.
Take a moment and think about all of the people you know who were not prepared. Think deeply about this for just a moment. I can almost guarantee that all everyone could come up with is either a grandparent, or an old television in someone's kitchen that barely gets reception anyway.
My grandmother is within the six percent, but she rarely even turns the T.V. on, and basically everyone else is more than prepared and probably wouldn't notice a difference when they turned their tube on after the change was made.
All in all, Congress needs to forget about T.V., steroids in baseball, and just about everything else for the moment while the economy gets all of their focus. It seems to me that once that happens, everything else won't seem so ridiculous.
So President Obama went and did the one thing that will undoubtedly stimulate the economy and pushed back the date in which television will go digital.
The government, who has already spent millions of dollars attempting to prepare the country for the switch to digital, decided that pushing the date back will help prepare the remaining six percent who somehow did not get the hint for the last 20 years.
As of Feb. 4, The House of Representatives voted 264 to 158 to delay the transition to June 12, and Obama is expected to sign the bill as well.
With all of the ridiculous commercials telling of what exactly to do if you are not ready, and the fact that 94 percent of the country is prepared, it begs the question as to why exactly this push back is happening.
It's not as if television is absolutely necessary for everyone to have, and my guess is that most who still have the bunny ears are not huge watchers anyway, so there truly seems to be absolutely no solid reason. I'm searching around, and I've yet to get a groundbreaking answer.
To me, the president and all of Congress need to put all of their attention to one specific problem, the economy. Every day people are losing their jobs or losing significant amounts of money in their 401Ks or other retirement plans, so it would seem trivial that they would actually take valuable time to think about television of all things.
This may possibly be the reason why our modern society is so dependent on technology. Many authors have written books and other stories warning everyone what could happen if we continue on the current path we are on. Now whether or not you believe that eventually everything will be robots is one thing, but the fact still remains that people do not "need" television, so this entire pushback is absolutely ridiculous.
Take a moment and think about all of the people you know who were not prepared. Think deeply about this for just a moment. I can almost guarantee that all everyone could come up with is either a grandparent, or an old television in someone's kitchen that barely gets reception anyway.
My grandmother is within the six percent, but she rarely even turns the T.V. on, and basically everyone else is more than prepared and probably wouldn't notice a difference when they turned their tube on after the change was made.
All in all, Congress needs to forget about T.V., steroids in baseball, and just about everything else for the moment while the economy gets all of their focus. It seems to me that once that happens, everything else won't seem so ridiculous.
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