Tom;
Unfortunately, this kind of funny-money scheme is specifically forbidden if
one wants to stay within the federal anti-deficiency act. The bureaucrats
learn another trick: spend all of your annual budget allocation, even if you
waste large parts of it, because if you end up with a surplus, your budget
will be cut the following year, since you ended up with more money than you
needed to do your job.
John Willkie
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Enviado el: Friday, January 23, 2009 3:10 PM
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Asunto: [opendtv] Re: [opendtv]
And I think only a bit more than half the coupons sent out are actually
redeemed. If they assumed no more than even 75% of outstanding coupons
would be redeemed then it seems they would be safe sending out maybe
another 4 million (resulting in < 3M more redeemed) and still be within
budget yet no longer have the waiting line excuse for delaying the
transition.
- Tom
Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
So far, 24 millions sold, with coupons and outright.
That's a pretty huge hit.
Where did you get this number?
Oops, it was a different thread, in the same time period, which you
already responded to:
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[opendtv] Plenty of DTV converter boxes left, study finds
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:56:12 -0500
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212901071
After some shortages in the first quarter of 2008, when only 1.3 million
converter boxes were sold, retailers made some changes to their supplier
roster, Moore said. As a result, shipments of converter boxes increased
by 49 percent in the second quarter, another 64 percent in the third
quarter and nearly 100 percent in the fourth quarter, according to
Moore.
"While the Congress works out the last-minute issues surrounding the
waiting list for government coupons, the NTIA [National
Telecommunications and Information Administration] program has resulted
in sales of nearly 20 million coupon-eligible converter boxes," Moore
said. "And our research shows that as many as four million additional
boxes have been sold to consumers without coupons."
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Bert
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