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BamaAla
12-17-2010, 08:19 PM
Check out the picture to go along with this article and tell me what's wrong with it.

http://www.macon.com/2010/12/16/1379464/funding-cuts-leave-many-without.html#disqus_thread


WOODY MARSHALL/THE TELEGRAPH Showing her Georgia Power bills in the one warm room of her home, Raymeica Kelly explains how her mother, sister and herself were turned away from the Energy Assistance Program on Wednesday morning after standing in line for four hours. All three complained that the system the Macon-Bibb County Economic Opportunity Council uses to give out the assistance needs improving.

Inkblots
12-17-2010, 08:19 PM
Ha! Nice catch.

+Rep.

amy31416
12-17-2010, 08:25 PM
Picture seems to be gone.

BenIsForRon
12-17-2010, 08:27 PM
hahahahaha, electricity usage aside... how did they afford that TV in the first place?

BamaAla
12-17-2010, 08:28 PM
Picture seems to be gone.

I'm sort of internet dumb and don't know how to post pictures; you'll have to follow the link. Sorry.

Monarchist
12-17-2010, 08:29 PM
http://media.macon.com/smedia/2010/12/15/22/20101215-221428-pic-125665235.standalone.prod_affiliate.71.jpg

amy31416
12-17-2010, 08:30 PM
I'm sort of internet dumb and don't know how to post pictures; you'll have to follow the link. Sorry.

Ahh...now it showed up.

Here's the pic if anyone else couldn't see it on the site:

http://media.macon.com/smedia/2010/12/15/22/20101215-221428-pic-125665235.embedded.prod_affiliate.71.jpg

EndDaFed
12-17-2010, 08:31 PM
All values in total might be worth less than $1000 dollars. I don't see what the big deal is. If anything it shows how prices on said goods have dropped dramatically. Who knowns when they were bought.

amy31416
12-17-2010, 08:31 PM
http://media.macon.com/smedia/2010/12/15/22/20101215-221428-pic-125665235.standalone.prod_affiliate.71.jpg

Dammit! Why is your pic bigger than mine?

And why is her flat screen about 4x the size of mine?

Life is hard, dammit.

Monarchist
12-17-2010, 08:33 PM
Dammit! Why is your pic bigger than mine?

And why is her flat screen about 4x the size of mine?

Life is hard, dammit.

I clicked on the lil' pic on the main story page and it took me to the big picture!!!!

oyarde
12-17-2010, 08:36 PM
I mailed my electric bill for 32 days ending Dec. 7 yesterday . $ 375 . My tv is not that big . It is the next couple I dread .

EndDaFed
12-17-2010, 08:36 PM
Wow that is worth a ton of money.

http://www.amazon.com/LG-32LD350-32-Inch-720p-HDTV/dp/B0039RNGNY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292639657&sr=8-1

Damn the slaves for having anything more than a pot to piss in!!!

EndDaFed
12-17-2010, 08:37 PM
I mailed my electric bill for 32 days ending Dec. 7 yesterday . $ 375 . My tv is not that big . It is the next couple I dread .

A TV that size costs less than your electric bill. http://www.amazon.com/VIZIO-E320VA-32-Inch-720p-Black/dp/B003NSBL9K/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1292639657&sr=8-3

Inkblots
12-17-2010, 08:39 PM
A TV that size costs less than your electric bill. http://www.amazon.com/VIZIO-E320VA-32-Inch-720p-Black/dp/B003NSBL9K/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1292639657&sr=8-3

Not that it particularly matters, but that TV is clearly a smaller size and a completely different model (I can't say the brand for sure) than the one in the picture.

EndDaFed
12-17-2010, 08:42 PM
Not that it particularly matters, but that TV is clearly a smaller size and a completely different model (I can't say the brand for sure) than the
one in the picture.

The best company in the industry Samsung hands down is only 515 for a model that is ten inches bigger.

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-PN42C450-42-Inch-Plasma-Black/dp/B0036WT3V6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292640060&sr=8-1

That TV can't be bigger than 42 inches there is no way. My 37 inch looks bigger than that thing. I wonder if this dumb TV canard will still be brought out when 5 years from now a 50 inch will only cost 100 dollars.

oyarde
12-17-2010, 08:43 PM
A TV that size costs less than your electric bill. http://www.amazon.com/VIZIO-E320VA-32-Inch-720p-Black/dp/B003NSBL9K/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1292639657&sr=8-3

Good , because it is a nice Sony tv but I paid less for it than my electric bill , bought it used from a guy moving . : )

BamaAla
12-17-2010, 08:44 PM
The best company in the industry Samsung hands down is only 425 for a model that is ten inches bigger.

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-PN42C450-42-Inch-Plasma-Black/dp/B0036WT3V6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292640060&sr=8-1

That TV can't be bigger than 42 there is no way. My 37 inch looks bigger than that thing.

You send her the money for the bill then. Otherwise, I don't think she's getting very much sympathy from anyone else.

oyarde
12-17-2010, 08:47 PM
I would not think an electric bill in Georgia would be too bad ?

EndDaFed
12-17-2010, 08:48 PM
You send her the money for the bill then. Otherwise, I don't think she's getting very much sympathy from anyone else.

I wouldn't call it sympathy. I'm just sick of the retarded TV talking point.

amy31416
12-17-2010, 08:49 PM
I would not think an electric bill in Georgia would be too bad ?

Don't a lot of households heat with electricity in the South?

oyarde
12-17-2010, 08:55 PM
Don't a lot of households heat with electricity in the South?

Yes , and it has been unusually chilly the past three weeks down there , but , it should still be a reasonable bill . It has gotten into the 30's and it is not hard to keep a small place warm in the 60's when it is above 20 degrees .

oyarde
12-17-2010, 08:59 PM
If she did not qualify for help , that would mean she has decent income ? Wonder if they have a trustee or something she could see if she has very little income ?

amy31416
12-17-2010, 09:21 PM
Yes , and it has been unusually chilly the past three weeks down there , but , it should still be a reasonable bill . It has gotten into the 30's and it is not hard to keep a small place warm in the 60's when it is above 20 degrees .

Ahh...seems like it'd be spendy during cold snaps...but I've never had electric heat.

oyarde
12-17-2010, 09:27 PM
Ahh...seems like it'd be spendy during cold snaps...but I've never had electric heat.

Yes it can be if you live in a northen climate , but should not be that far South . I primarily heat with electric , thus the large bill . As bad as a $400 electric bill is . It would be worse for me if I used my new propane furnace at $2.00 a gallon . I use my fireplace on the weekends , but through the week use a baseboard heat and an electric fireplace . So much for global warming , the high is running 20 degrees below avg this month .

oyarde
12-17-2010, 09:29 PM
Ahh...seems like it'd be spendy during cold snaps...but I've never had electric heat.

In the last fourteen years or so , propane , natural gas and electric rates have gone so high , if you live in a Northern climate , wood heat would be the only reasonble priced way to go for a large house .

oyarde
12-17-2010, 09:36 PM
Ahh...seems like it'd be spendy during cold snaps...but I've never had electric heat.

If Someone is really tight , whatever utility the heat is on , they usually offer budget billing . Once you have lived there a year , they will avg that and bill you that amount each month to prevent the huge Jan. bill . same if your climate is really hot in summer , you would want to do it with the electric for air cond .

oyarde
12-17-2010, 09:42 PM
If I had this gals phone number , I would call her and see if I could give her any advice .

ord33
12-17-2010, 10:37 PM
I live in the South and if she has an electric heat pump (which odds are fairly good she does) her bill shouldn't be very high for electricity because of TVA. I live in a colder region of the South, in a very old (pre-1910)not well insulated home that is about 2,500 sf and our electric bill ranges from $75 to $165. So a low electric bill can be achieved if someone wants to - we keep our heat on 60 degrees in the winter, 81 to 83 in the summer for cooling, and try not to leave anything running or turned on if it doesn't have to be. We have a large stand up freezer too, so our bill could be even lower. I have very little sympathy for this lady from what I can gather from the article.

LibForestPaul
12-18-2010, 08:38 AM
Damn the slaves for having anything more than a pot to piss in!!!
Exactly! Note the bold highlighted word below. If you are unable to pay your HOMES utilities, perhaps a HOME is not for you!


WOODY MARSHALL/THE TELEGRAPH Showing her Georgia Power bills in the one warm room of her HOME, Raymeica Kelly explains how her mother, sister and herself were turned away from the Energy Assistance Program on Wednesday morning after standing in line for four hours. All three complained that the system the Macon-Bibb County Economic Opportunity Council uses to give out the assistance needs improving.

puppetmaster
12-18-2010, 10:21 AM
I could really give a rats ass what color her skin is..........she probably lives in an apartment....so the bill will be lower. She probably has a STACK of GA lotto tickets somewhere. Why should have to help her is beyond belief....maybe her family should step up.......oh wait, I am sure her family is all doing the same thing....we just keep perpetuating this shit

MRK
12-18-2010, 12:24 PM
I saw this one posted in the comments.


WOW, another example of why we need more programs for Africans. This poor starving woman is trying to keep her children from freezing to death and the government is only giving her welfare, EBT, unemployment, MEDICAID, Social Security, Aid to Dependent Children, Free School Breakfast and Lunch, No taxes, an Earned Income credit tax refund although she didn't have to pay taxes AND SHE HAS TO TURN ON HER 52" TV every night and get her eight children to share two controllers for their X-Box gaming system while they stay warm from the glow of the TV. The government isn't paying for heating for her, her sister, all their children and grandchildren, her 14 year old daughters child, her Mom and isn't taken Shameika Lawtownda Shenee'ee's advice on how to hand out more aid to insure that she receives her fair share which she feels she hasn't received.
Can anyone help her! This is another indication of the cruelty of the U.S. system and how we need to help our poor. Don't you people understand she has lost 100 pounds and is down to only 320 because with her reduction in payments she now has to eat a whopper junior at Burger King instead of her favorite Double Whopper THIS IS NOT FAIR AMERICA AND WE NEED TO FIX IT.
Thanks
K.M. Whifa

Read more: http://www.macon.com/2010/12/16/1379464/funding-cuts-leave-many-without.html#disqus_thread#ixzz18UNGjmJI

Brian4Liberty
12-18-2010, 01:21 PM
All values in total might be worth less than $1000 dollars. I don't see what the big deal is. If anything it shows how prices on said goods have dropped dramatically. Who knowns when they were bought.

Yep. Of course this is the position that we have been put in. We can have cheap toys and cheap chemical and fat-filled food, but no jobs and massive debt. It looks good on a government chart.

Brian4Liberty
12-18-2010, 01:27 PM
If she did not qualify for help , that would mean she has decent income ? Wonder if they have a trustee or something she could see if she has very little income ?

She did qualify. Her complaint was that the "process" was inefficient. She had to wait for 4 hours in a long line, and they ran out of the Federal "utility credit coupons" by the time she got to the front.

It's hard to imagine that a government process would be inefficient and have a long line, even more shocking when they are giving away free stuff. :rolleyes:

guitarlifter
12-18-2010, 01:42 PM
The best company in the industry Samsung hands down is only 515 for a model that is ten inches bigger.

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-PN42C450-42-Inch-Plasma-Black/dp/B0036WT3V6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292640060&sr=8-1

That TV can't be bigger than 42 inches there is no way. My 37 inch looks bigger than that thing. I wonder if this dumb TV canard will still be brought out when 5 years from now a 50 inch will only cost 100 dollars.

I'm sorry, but that TV is crap. 720p? Try these two TV's. Cheaper, roughly the same size or the same size, and they're both 1080p.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6321585&CatId=3650

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7025603&CatId=3650

silverhandorder
12-18-2010, 02:50 PM
Why are we talking about the value of xbox and tv when we should be asking why they waste electricity on that instead of on electric bill? 1000 can buy you awesome blankets and all kinds of insulation material. Thermos? Heat wraps?

Op is absolutely right.

GunnyFreedom
12-18-2010, 03:25 PM
Wow that is worth a ton of money.

http://www.amazon.com/LG-32LD350-32-Inch-720p-HDTV/dp/B0039RNGNY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292639657&sr=8-1

Damn the slaves for having anything more than a pot to piss in!!!

Her TV is not 32", it's more like 48, and may be as much as 52" depending on photo depth. And it looks like a plasma which is even more expensive. My first thought was a $2000 television minimum. I'm 'suffering' with a 15" tube based standard definition television, I don't HAVE a frelling console game, and she wants people mike ME to pay HER light bill so SHE can live in luxury while I suffer?

I don't f'n think so!

EndDaFed
12-18-2010, 05:10 PM
Exactly! Note the bold highlighted word below. If you are unable to pay your HOMES utilities, perhaps a HOME is not for you!

I know it's outrageous. She should be a good drone and buy a tent and sleep on public property. The nerve of these people. When she does get a job she will need extra money to pay for those bankers so they don't have to file for bankruptcy.

EndDaFed
12-18-2010, 05:16 PM
I'm sorry, but that TV is crap. 720p? Try these two TV's. Cheaper, roughly the same size or the same size, and they're both 1080p.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6321585&CatId=3650

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7025603&CatId=3650

Toshiba has done extensive lab analysis on this and anything under 50 inches does not benefit from a 1080P screen when it comes to TV's that are watched from a distance. Computer monitors are a whole different animal.

GunnyFreedom
12-18-2010, 05:18 PM
I know it's outrageous. She should be a good drone and buy a tent and sleep on public property. The nerve of these people. When she does get a job she will need extra money to pay for those bankers so they don't have to file for bankruptcy.

Why not go all the way communist then? I'm pretty much dirt poor, but I have never taken public assistance in my life. Maybe I should just blow every penny I have on fancy electronics and then come begging for food and fuel? Why do I have to suffer with 80's era entertainment electronics just because I am frugal enough to pay my own bills without public assistance?

You would advocate for the death of responsibility -- the very thing that is turning the US into a socialist nation.

If we really want liberty, I'm sorry, but that goes hand in hand with responsibility. By your argument that responsibility should be ignored, you would make liberty impossible to achieve. It's time to pick which road to take, responsibility and liberty, or irresponsibility and socialism.

EndDaFed
12-18-2010, 05:21 PM
Why are we talking about the value of xbox and tv when we should be asking why they waste electricity on that instead of on electric bill? 1000 can buy you awesome blankets and all kinds of insulation material. Thermos? Heat wraps?

Op is absolutely right.

I'm sure the 100 watts saved from not turning on a modern LCD TV are surly going to compensate for a electric heating coil that draws 15,000 watts.

MelissaWV
12-18-2010, 05:27 PM
All stupidity aside, one doesn't know where the television came from. We recently gave away a huge (non-flat, which is why we gave it away) television to some dude who lives in a trailer and worked on our home. I'm fairly sure the television can't even be seen properly in the guy's room, but he wanted it, and was willing to haul it to his place.

Of course, depending on where you are, a month's heat is more than the value of a cheap flat-screen, especially if the flat-screen was bought when times were better for that person.

Whether or not she has a big television, she doesn't deserve a dime of my money I don't willingly give. That is my bottom line.

EndDaFed
12-18-2010, 05:34 PM
Why not go all the way communist then? I'm pretty much dirt poor, but I have never taken public assistance in my life. Maybe I should just blow every penny I have on fancy electronics and then come begging for food and fuel? Why do I have to suffer with 80's era entertainment electronics just because I am frugal enough to pay my own bills without public assistance?

You would advocate for the death of responsibility -- the very thing that is turning the US into a socialist nation.

If we really want liberty, I'm sorry, but that goes hand in hand with responsibility. By your argument that responsibility should be ignored, you would make liberty impossible to achieve. It's time to pick which road to take, responsibility and liberty, or irresponsibility and socialism.

I'm not advocating for anything period. I just find this whole situation laughable. The banking cartel steals trillions of dollars from future tax livestock and then the media starts playing up the horrors of the poor stealing a mere pittance and everyone is mad. It's genius really. You have the slaves fighting each other while the leeches at the top take everything.

Pauls' Revere
12-18-2010, 05:42 PM
According to this, here are the 10 things we cant live without.

Not one mention of food, water, heat, shelter....LOL

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-Things-We-Cant-Live-usnews-3617536316.html?x=0

If this is any indication of how screwed our priorities are.

amy31416
12-18-2010, 05:42 PM
All stupidity aside, one doesn't know where the television came from.

Ahh HA! Stolen!

Noob
12-18-2010, 05:45 PM
To keep my power bill low I keep things unplug when I am not using them.

GunnyFreedom
12-18-2010, 05:54 PM
I'm not advocating for anything period. I just find this whole situation laughable. The banking cartel steals trillions of dollars from future tax livestock and then the media starts playing up the horrors of the poor stealing a mere pittance and everyone is mad. It's genius really. You have the slaves fighting each other while the leeches at the top take everything.

It's the attitude that says "I can blow all my money on toys and then beg welfare for my light bill" which has kept us in the condition of slaves in the first place. People like me, who own this kind of television:

http://nc49.org/reso/files/tv.jpg

but are expected to pay her light bill so she can keep her fancy plasma, that goes directly to the fundamental reason why we are in this situation in the first place. That's why people are making such a big deal out of it. (That Wii sensor belongs to a friend visiting from Montana)

Melissa is right, none of us knows where she got that TV from -- this is not about the TV in all truth, it's about the fkd over priorities that are DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for our current condition of slavery. The TV is just an obvious symptom of those fkd up priorities.

I knew that I had no desire to seek public assistance, therefore when I had a couple decent paychecks I held on to them for the lean times. I didn't go out and buy all kinds of fancy toys. My light bill is paid without the help of taxpayers, thankyouverymuch, and if that means that my only TV is a crappy SD tube, then so be it.

But personal responsibility is the fundamental principle of liberty. Forgive me if some of us get annoyed at people who throw their irresponsibility in our faces and then expect us to bail them out. This is the very thing standing in our way between here and a free society. I'm sorry you don't get that.

MelissaWV
12-18-2010, 06:04 PM
Ahh HA! Stolen!

Well there ya go! It was free! She still can't afford the power bill!

If only she could find some way to steal power....

Kregisen
12-18-2010, 06:13 PM
She could've gotten the TV and xbox free for all it matters......the point is, the stuff just in the BACKGROUND of her picture she could sell on craigslist and get $500-1000 just like that, and then go get an old 32 inch tube tv. They range from free to like $50 max on craigslist.\

Knowing that she probably has tons of other shit she doesn't need, yet tries to take from A.) taxpayers and B.) other people in LINE who are also trying to steal from taxpayers, is fucking insane.

Things like this are why I think America will never get better.

amy31416
12-18-2010, 06:13 PM
Well there ya go! It was free! She still can't afford the power bill!

If only she could find some way to steal power....

Ohhh man...people do that in 3rd world countries all the time (and here, I'm sure). Many of them get killed from doing backwoods wiring.

amy31416
12-18-2010, 06:17 PM
It's the attitude that says "I can blow all my money on toys and then beg welfare for my light bill" which has kept us in the condition of slaves in the first place. People like me, who own this kind of television:

http://nc49.org/reso/files/tv.jpg

but are expected to pay her light bill so she can keep her fancy plasma, that goes directly to the fundamental reason why we are in this situation in the first place. That's why people are making such a big deal out of it. (That Wii sensor belongs to a friend visiting from Montana)

Melissa is right, none of us knows where she got that TV from -- this is not about the TV in all truth, it's about the fkd over priorities that are DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for our current condition of slavery. The TV is just an obvious symptom of those fkd up priorities.

I knew that I had no desire to seek public assistance, therefore when I had a couple decent paychecks I held on to them for the lean times. I didn't go out and buy all kinds of fancy toys. My light bill is paid without the help of taxpayers, thankyouverymuch, and if that means that my only TV is a crappy SD tube, then so be it.

But personal responsibility is the fundamental principle of liberty. Forgive me if some of us get annoyed at people who throw their irresponsibility in our faces and then expect us to bail them out. This is the very thing standing in our way between here and a free society. I'm sorry you don't get that.

Doooood. Make like you're into retro tech. Get yourself an Atari, a boom box with a bunch of cassette tapes, a Betamax player, and invite a fine lady over for fondue.

Pure swank. :)

Noob
12-18-2010, 06:18 PM
She could've gotten the TV and xbox free for all it matters......the point is, the stuff just in the BACKGROUND of her picture she could sell on craigslist and get $500-1000 just like that, and then go get an old 32 inch tube tv. They range from free to like $50 max on craigslist.\

Knowing that she probably has tons of other shit she doesn't need, yet tries to take from A.) taxpayers and B.) other people in LINE who are also trying to steal from taxpayers, is fucking insane.

Things like this are why I think America will never get better.

I have tons of stuff I don't need, like 25 unopened, box up VCR's, lot's of cameras that I can't get 110 film for any more with out searching for it on the internet.

libertarian4321
12-19-2010, 02:04 AM
Wow that is worth a ton of money.

http://www.amazon.com/LG-32LD350-32-Inch-720p-HDTV/dp/B0039RNGNY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292639657&sr=8-1

Damn the slaves for having anything more than a pot to piss in!!!

Her TV appears to be a 42" model, which is pretty much the standard size these days.

Still, if one is so poor that one can't afford power, does it really make sense to have a $600 (or more) TV and an X-box (plus games, which ain't cheap)?

libertarian4321
12-19-2010, 02:07 AM
Well there ya go! It was free! She still can't afford the power bill!

If only she could find some way to steal power....

Those large LCD's use a lot more power than an old 25" CRT. Let's take up a collection to buy her a used CRT model.

libertarian4321
12-19-2010, 02:12 AM
I used to volunteer with a group that went around fixing up poor people's houses for free. They'd bring an army of amateur volunteers to fix up the ramshackle houses that poor, often elderly, people lived in, using supplies donated by Home Depot and other companies.

While some of the people were truly living in tragic circumstances, I saw some things that were completely absurd.

One house was falling apart. They didn't even have a hot water heater. The ancient wood siding hadn't been painted in decades and was falling off the house.

Yet they had an X-box and a Direct TV dish on the side of the house, and had the full cable TV package.

Poor people sometimes make REALLY STUPID decisions, which, in part, is why they are poor.

Or maybe I should say stupid people sometimes make really stupid decisions, which is, in party, why they are poor...

Acala
12-19-2010, 05:20 AM
She needs to sell the tv and the xbox and buy a heater that burns kudzu.

Seriously, the part I liked is that she complained that the system for handing out the free money didn't operate efficiently enough.

oyarde
12-20-2010, 07:48 PM
She did qualify. Her complaint was that the "process" was inefficient. She had to wait for 4 hours in a long line, and they ran out of the Federal "utility credit coupons" by the time she got to the front.

It's hard to imagine that a government process would be inefficient and have a long line, even more shocking when they are giving away free stuff. :rolleyes:

OK , makes perfect sense , she qualified due to low income . Shes should still get herself on budget billing .

oyarde
12-20-2010, 07:50 PM
To keep my power bill low I keep things unplug when I am not using them.

Wish I was that disciplined and diligent ..

oyarde
12-20-2010, 07:57 PM
Why not go all the way communist then? I'm pretty much dirt poor, but I have never taken public assistance in my life. Maybe I should just blow every penny I have on fancy electronics and then come begging for food and fuel? Why do I have to suffer with 80's era entertainment electronics just because I am frugal enough to pay my own bills without public assistance?

You would advocate for the death of responsibility -- the very thing that is turning the US into a socialist nation.

If we really want liberty, I'm sorry, but that goes hand in hand with responsibility. By your argument that responsibility should be ignored, you would make liberty impossible to achieve. It's time to pick which road to take, responsibility and liberty, or irresponsibility and socialism.

Well , if you ever get to the capital of Indiana , let me know , I will pick you up and make dinner . If I had not been poor when young , I probably would not be as good of a cook .

bruce leeroy
12-21-2010, 08:14 PM
Well there ya go! It was free! She still can't afford the power bill!

If only she could find some way to steal power....

that is doable too

libertarian4321
12-22-2010, 05:51 PM
The best company in the industry Samsung hands down is only 515 for a model that is ten inches bigger.

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-PN42C450-42-Inch-Plasma-Black/dp/B0036WT3V6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292640060&sr=8-1

That TV can't be bigger than 42 inches there is no way. My 37 inch looks bigger than that thing. I wonder if this dumb TV canard will still be brought out when 5 years from now a 50 inch will only cost 100 dollars.

It looks like a 42" model, which is one of the more popular sizes.

BTW, a 42" flat screen uses a LOT of power- much more than an old 25" CRT would use.

While you can buy a 42" for under $500 now if you buy a budget brand (how much you wanna bet she didn't buy the cheap brand?), it's still a bit odd that she has a $500+ TV and no money to pay for electricity to run it (and the X-box on the shelf below it).

I'd also love to know how anyone runs up a $375 electric bill unless they live in a McMansion. Geez, I spend about half that even in August in South Texas (when the AC is running pretty much all the time)- and I live in a decent sized house.

This woman lives in Georgia. How much electricity does she need given that she presumably doesn't live in a huge house (she's an idiot if she does)? If she's that damned poor, she should keep the AC at 85 or higher during the summer, which shouldn't cost all that much.

dannno
12-22-2010, 05:55 PM
hahahahaha, electricity usage aside... how did they afford that TV in the first place?

You can get a nice big flatscreen for $300 or $400 on sale, but it costs well over $100/month for electricity if you have a family.

One of these is in a free market oriented sector, and the other one isn't.

dannno
12-22-2010, 05:55 PM
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