The single biggest problem facing consumers in the world of technology is the high cost of cable television, according to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

This dolt, whose I won’t honor with a name, goes on to say, “The average family has very little choice as to what channels are included, yet they’re having to pay more and more for those same channels.”

WTF? Is he serious? I’m utterly stunned that he would even suggest that cable television ranks in the Top 100 of consumer tech problems. Has this FCC moron loooked around at the world? At the incredible damage done by the surfeit of wasteful consumer technology? Maybe he should take a wee look at cell phones or Wi-Fi (Germany urges all citizens to avoid it, due to very possible cancer-causing elements). Or, oh, products like the iPod and iPhone with batteries can’t be easily removed, meaning TENS OF  MILLIONS of nasty heavy metal pills cannot be recycled and end up in our water supply. How about the lack of recycled content mandates that allow billions of new consumer tech gadgets to enter the supply chain each year, all made of virgin materials? Think maybe that’s a consumer tech issue of significance? Nope…high cable bills, that’s his top call. Jesus.

High among his complaints is the fact that, if one wants to watch one channel, one may have to buy other channels one doesn’t want as part of a bundled package. Yes, this is annoying, but does it really rate as a national level crisis? The NUMBER ONE consumer tech issue? What a friggin’ jackass. And he’s the chairman of the FCC. Thanks George, for nominating a genius like this to control the airwaves.

Oh, and Mr. Ostrich? Please stop calling U.S. citizens “consumers”. It’s utterly insulting. You may call us “voters” as this pays homage to the fact that we are, in fact, your employers, but never, ever consumer. It’s the language, brothers and sisters, that keeps us down as much as anything else.

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