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To: Jack Hydrazine
Now do you understand?
My point was that TV programming was free back in the day, i.e., no cable bill. So simple even a caveman could understand ... but not you.
Not the cost of the TV, not the cost of an antenna, nor the burden of having to tolerate 12 minutes of commercials per hour.
But there's always one feckin' know-it-all who just can't grasp a simple concept, sticks his foot in his mouth, then tries to blame someone else.
35 posted on 01/13/2014 11:30:04 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

TV programming was not free back in the day. You stilled paid for it with the gasoline you bought, the laundry detergent you bought, and anything else you bought. The price of the product was higher because the advertising was factored into it.

Who paid for program? The advertisers! Who paid the advertising agencies to create those TV ads? The product manufacturers. How did the manufacturers pay for those ads? By adding it to the cost of the manufacture of the product(s) which you and I paid for.

See?

Plus, you have to pay for electricity to power the darn thing.

There’s still no thing as a free lunch. Never has been, never will be.


37 posted on 01/13/2014 11:36:32 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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