Wait a minute, something doesn't add up. 14 million coupons expired and they still ran out of money? WTF??

I always knew this was going to be one huge cluster. It just had to be. The coupon deal just makes it worse. Sure, regulation of the broadcast frequencies is paid for by tax dollars so, in that sense, citizens do actually have a right to access the airwaves. But tax dollars fund regulation of all the airwaves. So, am I entitled to a coupon for a police scanner? Since when do citizens have a right to hardware? I don't buy the illiteracy argument either, it's a nonsensical extreme postiion. (If you're talking to a farmworker in south Texas you'd better be bilingual.) As for the poor, they can get their news from the newspapers and be better informed for it. TV journalism is about entertainment and nothing else. You want the weather? There's this new thing called a radio...

It's not as if anyone's going to suffer an information blackout. Rather, they're going to experience an entertainment brown out.