Originally Posted by Socks

Looks like they're stealing a page out of every corporate and governmental "change for the better" that I see in the news on a daily basis. Like how smart meters will "save you money during off peak hours" or how tracking your car by GPS to pay for things like parking and car insurance will "save you money on that two weeks you were in mexico and didn't drive your car"....(but cost you more the other 350 days a year...)

Or how they released digital cable boxes, and now half of everything you'd want to watch isn't available on regular full cable anymore.. This year I think about half of all raptors/leafs/bluejays games are only on premium pay-extra stations.. While I may not mind so much, how many grandparents are on a fixed income and don't even get to watch the baseball games anymore..

It's sad really. What really confounds me is since everyone seems to need to squeeze their customers to death in 2010, what's it going to be like in 20 years when my kid is 10 years younger than I am now? And I'm only 29? How can they possibly keep funding what they can't fund now?