The bill to extend the date for digital television conversion failed to be passed in the House Of Representatives on Wednesday January 28th, leaving millions of people in rural areas without converter boxes and a shortage of Government coupons to help with the cost. This is unfortunate.
I didn't think that the coupon program was a good idea in the first place, (more Government spending) but after thinking about it, I did conclude that it is sort of an unfunded mandate, and puts a burden on people who can't afford the digital television conversion box.
Now it seems that the Government can't keep up with the demand for coupons, and the people who do not have their box by February 17th will be left out in the cold with no contact with the outside world except for radio. Congress and the President should rethink their decision and allow more time.
If the US is to continue to be the leading technological nation, then why is Congress and the President shutting the rural population out from information via television? Think about it.
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