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Ashland, Missouri

[lelio]

"I’d go nuts if I didn’t have it," Piltz said.

You'll go nuts if you didn't watch ... what exactly?

She's got an addiction problem to the television and doesn't want to give it up. Based on her physical appearance it isn't the only addiction she has either. She'll be better off if she read books and walked around.

[Living Free in NH]

if Virginia Piltz had to pay for cable TV, she’d have to go without groceries..."

That fat bitch could stand to do without a few groceries!!!!!!!!!

[IronJack]

Most communities have regulations in place that forbid "essential utilities" from being turned off for nonpayment, if such disconnection will threaten the health and well-being of the occupant. In Chicago a decade or so ago, there was a concerted movement to have cable TV declared one of those essential utilities. In other words, deadbeat welfare mooches could order cable, refuse to pay it (or any of their other bills) and nobody could turn it off. The movement failed, but there was the usual grumbling about "tyranny" and "oppression of the downtrodden" by the usual suspects.

[TheOtherOne]

Libraries are wonderful things. Books on tape, etc. She would never be bored if she was intertested. TV is a lazy advanture.

[VOA]

Free Cable Television Service at Risk for those in Public Housing

A couple of years ago, I saw some sob-story from New York (City?) about how
some folks on welfare might also have to face this sort of cultural and spiritual "deprivation".

And just about had steam coming off my brain because I've never really
felt that I could afford cable even a decade after graduating college.
But, I have money extracted from my paycheck so that someone who won't find a way
to be productive can have it.

Just one thing wrong with the greatest country on earth.

[CdMGuy]

Hey, I'm on a fixed income too, but then aren't we all? So, where is my free cable TV, and I want HBO and Showtime too, and I want someone to pay for any pay movies or sports events I feel like watching. Now that I think about it, I want a bigger TV too, with surround sound.

[Publius6961]

Say what? !! ?

[GSWarrior]

You mean she will be forced to watch local channels? The horror!

[humblegunner]

I am even more deeply saddened...

[Old Professer]

Piltz often relies on cable television to provide a window to the world via the Discovery, Food and Weather channels.

Window, hell, sliding-glass door is more like it!