Love spending $120 million dollars so poor people will be able to watch TV. How about this go to schools so maybe these poor people's kids will learn something and not grow up to be poor.

Let IBM run it. I'm suprise those bastards in Washington didn't pick AT&T to do it.

WalMart should be doing this!!!!!!!!!!

For those who can not afford the digital equipement (converters or a digitial tv), it would be an incentive to stop watching tv and go out and do things (like exercise).

We need to spend $120 million to allow poor people to watch TV. TV is the opiate of the masses: if they cannot watch, they might actually go out and make something of their lives, and we cannot allow that.

- Agent Bob

A lot of comments about the DTV Coupon Program seem to revolve around this idea poor people are poor because they're lazy, wasteful, and incompetent. While there are poor people like that, most of the poor in this country are "working poor". I meet dozens of people every week at food pantry who work 2 full time jobs, and maybe another part time job on top of that. They only wear clothes from garage sales and Good Will; their car barely limps along; and they only grocery shop at Aldi. They work hard, and are still poor.

The government is going to make Billions by auctioning off the analog TV spectrum -- a spectrum that, if they didn't auction it off, people would keep using to enjoy their TVs like they always have. Is it right for the Government to just take the spectrum that people use, an not provide any alternative or compensation? Poor people are entitled to some entertainment too. $120 million in coupons to allow poor people to keep watching a little TV is not too much to ask.

Actually, I believe the coupons to permit analog tuners to display digital TV signals will be available to anyone who applies for them; Anyone doubt the queue will include a sizable component of those whose incomes far exceed the poverty level? As an aside, in my 64 years, I've yet to meet a poor person who was so because they were "lazy" or excessive TV viewers.