I love when people replace hard metrics with how people “feel” things are going. That’ll end well.

you then get purple… and purple is fascism… and as they add more socialism to it, it will get more red, till the system buckles and people cry for some form of relief. after all we are not past the age of disasters.

the process was interesting to watch. you take some red and you sprinkle it among the blue, and then blame the red on rightists.. and as you add more red, the right gets more blame for the red the left is adding. at some point, there is a lot of red there, and they then cry that to move towards freedom (in other words back through where you just came), would add blue and blue is the source of evil, not red.

in this way, blue gets the blame for red, and people run away from freedom into the hands of red while trying to avoid the policies of red (attributed to blue).

so here you have the end result… a state that impinged on business with a socialist central control, and people think its capitalist policy. its not. given subsidies and such, and lack of transparency, the public cant “choose” better cheaper products. the above makes it sound like they are willing to purchase equipment that is expensive to operate over cheaper to operate equipment.

if the business areas were not played with to start with (a socialist thing as part of redistribution of wealth, favoritism, and equality of outcome (for the chosen)), then people wouldnt have desired to purchase plasma tv sets if there were other alternatives.

however socialists do not believe in the market, and so this will change the market artificially and people will not be able to make good judgements on price and performance and costs. they will buy in an out of whack way based on false economic signals skewed by fascistic ecnomic meddling.

i wouldnt be surprised if this comes on top of tax breaks that were intended to make the products more sellable by lowering their costs with tax dollars to get digital tv in and to abandon analogue tv.

its interesting to note, that if that isnt part of it, then surely the real part of it is socialist playing with energy costs. if they subsidize energy with tax (let me know if they do), then they are artificially holding down the expense of electricity, and so plasma tvs would not be much more expensive than others, but since they are not disired by those who pay their own electricity, the poor buy them, and this puts a burden on the state to help them pay for electricity in their homes.

its like some bizarre game of “Dominoes Of Pain”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Statesman

Where is Alan B’Stard when we need him most? :)