The federal government that wants us to believe it is competent to handle a $1 trillion "stimulus" bill shows it can't even manage the piddly little digital conversion that it mandated:
The U.S. House voted Wednesday to delay the transition from Feb. 17 to June 12, ending an on-again, off-again battle over the effective date.
President Barack Obama, who is expected to sign the bill into law, pushed for the delay after the federal government ran out of the coupons that help consumers buy the $40 to $80 converter boxes needed for analog sets to receive over-the-air digital signals.
About 1.8 million households nationwide are on the waiting list.
I swear, if they keep showing those irritating "don't forget about the changeover" reminders every day for the next four months, I'm going to end up throwing a lamp into the TV. Come to think of it, that would encourage me to finally get the high-def TV I've been putting off. Guess government incentives work!
