[opendtv] Re: Obama Asks Congress to Delay DTV Transition
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:28:14 -0800
Once again, you bias comes through. Bush did nothing to advance DTV as
governor of Texas, the job he had when the transition was fixed in place.
His place in fixing the date was to simply sign a bill. 538 members of
Congress did much more extensive work on this than did he, and many of them
were in office in 1996, when the transition started based on their earlier
bill.
John Willkie
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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Bob Miller
Enviado el: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:28 PM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Obama Asks Congress to Delay DTV Transition
Maybe Obama just wants to say that he tried to do something not
actually delay the transition but just make an attempt. Then it is
still the Bush problem that he had no time to correct.
Bob Miller
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The Obama administration should know that if the transition happens on
> schedule then it will be easy to just blame it on the previous
> administration. If they put it off it becomes their problem.
>
> - Tom
>
> Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>>
>> Barry Wilkins wrote:
>>
>>> Why, exactly, should at the very last minute, a delay be
>>> made to account for all those who must surely have been
>>> adequately forewarned of this momentous change?
>>
>> I really think it's simply because the Obama administration doesn't want
>> to be accused of messing upo everyone's TV reception. The reasoning
doesn't
>> have to be logical. It would simply go something like, "the minute Obama
>> came into office, TV reception goes to pot."
>>
>>> Those coupons your government generously distributes to
>>> the needy are something rather unique to the USA.
>>
>> Actually, Italy is doing something similar, 70 Euros, one per household.
>>
>> http://www.dgtvi.it/stat/Consumer_Info/Contributo/Page1.html
>>
>> "Per agevolare questa importante fase di passaggio alla nuova tecnologia
è
>> stato predisposto un programma di interventi a favore dei cittadini.
Infatti
>> chi non ne abbia già usufruito in passato, può utilizzare un buono del
>> valore di 70 Euro, messo a disposizione dal Ministero delle Comunicazioni
>> per l'acquisto di un decoder digitale presso tutti i rivenditori che
>> aderiscono all'iniziativa."
>>
>>> Reception with dubious antennas may be another story...
>>
>> A rousing amen.
>>
>> Bert
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