I'm with Republicans on this one

When it comes to blowing money or saving it, I can so frequently say I'm with the traditional Republican position.

That is, let's save it.

Right now, the Democrats and the Obama administration are apparently on course to set up $650 million to give to people in the form of coupons so they can buy converter boxes for their television sets.

Over one-half billion dollars.

For TV's.

No, I just can't see it.

It seems Congress thinks we all need more time and more money in the form of these coupons to switch over to HD viewing.

Ridiculous.

The assumption is, if we went on schedule now, in February, to switch over to all digital transmission, 15% of us wouldn't be ready.

Well whoop-ti-freakin'-do.

I can virtually guarantee that if these people went home and their tv sets wouldn't receive a signal, they'd go out that day and buy the $40.00 converter box so they could see their shows that very night.

And if they didn't? Would that hurt anyone?

It just isn't worth more than a half billion dollars to the country to switch this over.

We have a lot more important things to take care of than these things.

Like saving our economy, for starters.

How about the 46 million of us that don't have health care?

But no, we have to pay loads of money, time and attention to television sets.

Oh, yeah. We have much greater problems than this.