Today’s NYT:
… …The paragraph immediate before this one hints to why this is not such a great idea:
…You know who lives in those other 9% of American households? Poor people. That “small and shrinking segment of the population” are actually people who cannot afford cable. It’s…
It’s thinking like this that gives liberals (of which I am a big one) a bad name: “Oh no…we’re can’t move forward and make life better for EVERYONE because of the 9% who might be adversely affected in the short term.”
Grow a pair. Progress is painful. Making life better for all is painful. But it MUST be done. We are failing everywhere. Everything is falling apart. We need action.
This is the kind of thinking that is making life very difficult for the Democratic party. You know how everyone loves to say how Republicans just “get stuff done”? Well now it is our turn. And on balance, life will be better for 99.99% of the population.
Besides, did you not read this part of the article:
“The F.C.C. could require cable and satellite providers to offer a low-cost service that carries only local channels, and to give vouchers for connecting to that service to any households that haven’t subscribed to cable or satellite for, say, two years.
Professor Hazlett estimates that $300 per household should do it: that amounts to $3 billion at most. Compared with the gains from selling off the spectrum, it’s a drop in the bucket. Or, as an interim step, we could reduce the number of channels available in a community from 49 to, say, 5.”
It’s time liberals start acting like Republicans. The only way we are going to fix the myriad of problems they left us is to GROW A PAIR AND GET SHIT DONE.
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