Reply #110: Auctioning off the public airwaves relied on by millions to Verizon [View All]

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and other telecoms strikes me as about as defensible as auctioning off oil rights in our national parks and all the other brilliant bush-cheney privatization schemes, which always manage to pork the most vulnerable Americans on their way to enriching corporations.

In this case, they're taking away broadcast TV from millions of working poor and elderly who rely on it. And what about those millions of newly unemployed trying to hang on to their houses? Are they really going to run around buying converter boxes and new antennas to keep their TVs working? No, they'll have to just do without, or become Rush Limbaugh listeners if they weren't already. Typical bushler ploy.