FCC fines ABC for 5 year old showing of NYPD Blue butt cheeks

[strredwolf]

Better late than never... er... maybe not.  Five years?  Three since the show poped off the air?!?

What is the FCC thinking of?

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Re: As an Amtrak employee I have to set the record straight.

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

Luckily, I don't live anywhere near the North East US. If I did at any point, I would have moved away years ago. The government has gone insane up there. Even the bastion of independence from government, New Hampshire, is steadily increasing their taxes under pressure from Massachusettsian immigrants (Who went there to escape high taxes.) (I'm also a bit worried. Given the association of unions with certain other elements left over from the Alcohol prohibition... "Meet me here tomorrow... <whisper> Be sure to rub em out, Guido.")

The point is, from a free market standpoint if there isn't enough demand for a service that it can be self sustaining with its current structure, then it shouldn't be propped up and continue to run with its current structure. If those who need those services end up feeling pain from it being discontinued, then they will find ways of either supporting a more efficient service that meets their needs, or find a way of working around such that they don't need the service any longer. The government propping something up is a distortion of the natural free market which goes in cycles, unprofitable companies die, new ones rise that will either shift that need or meet that need in a profitable manner. By propping it up, they're damaging the future companies that will spring up.

It's a bit like the stupidity that has lead to all of the wildfires in California. Instead of letting the fires take their course over the last 50 years or so, they keep putting all of those natural fires out. Because of this, dead wood and underbrush accumulate in the forests. There's no fires (aka market forces) that clean out the forests. Thus, when there is a fire that is too large, and the conditions are just right... The government won't be able to control that fire, and all of the piles upon piles of dead wood will go up all at once, creating an absolute catastrophe.

Instead of small collapses and closures of a company or a line here and there, government interference is creating a situation where entire segments of the market are teetering and relying on the government to stay afloat. If the bumps get big enough, the government itself won't have the resources to prop it all up at once and BOOM. a super-fire of economic downfall. And they just keep doing it. Look at the economic stimulus package. Look at the subprime bailouts. More and more putting out of small fires instead of letting them run their course and letting the free market cycle work.