Musings on Capitalist Free Enterprise...Again...

 

The profitic prophets of free enterprise capitalism, cheerleaders and demagogues that they inherently are, like to claim that nobody does it better than free enterprise capitalism. Every month, however, free enterprise capitalism reminds me that bullshit, including capitalist free enterprise bullshit, to often makes the world go round.

This month I was reminded that much of the rhetoric of capitalist demagoguery is bullshit in a couple of instances. First let’s talk garbage. Our garbage and recycling is picked up by the private company County Waste and Recycling on Monday morning's thanks to a deal our landlord cut with this company. They don’t, however, always pick up our garbage and recycling on time. This week they picked up the garbage. The recycling, however, remains sitting on Caroline waiting for them to pick,. As I type it is Thursday, four days after it is supposed to be collected, and there is no sign of County Waste and Recyclling.

Now let’s talk satellite digital television. As I have said on these “pages” previously I have all sorts of problems with digital television. I live on a busy street and when a car goes by at speed (30 mph is the speed limit) my over the air signal disappears for a few seconds and, on rarer occasions, for longer. That is not the only problem with my over the air digital signal, however. The last couple of weeks the signal has disappeared twice on the Minnesota based Hubbard Broadcasting owned Albany broadcaster WNYT's sub-channels 51.2, 51.3, and 51.4 right in the middle of the movie on the Movies channel which, to say the least, rather annoying. Is it the satellite going out? Or is it something else? Presumably WNYT knows.