At least Radio is still Free

Your post really got me to thinking about what is free and what might not be free for so long. Anything is possible and who knows when lots of the freebies won't be free anymore. As you mentioned, we do pay for TV, or most of us subscribe to Cable or Satellite to get more channels. WE subscribe to satellite because,if we didn't, we'd only get 2 local channels. Radio is free just like the Internet. But, they could do the same thing that people are saying about the Internet - start charging for stations just like our Cable or Satellite TV charges. There aren't too many things that are free anymore. We can still walk for free.Talking on the phone isn't free, although they say you can have free long distance now. I found I pay $12 to have FREE LD. Free in this case only means you can talk as long as you want with no more charges beyond the $12 we pay. The gas prices have rocketed sky high and they say they are going higher because government isn't allowing the oil companies to drill. Right now,we are able to afford to drive, but one day, the price of gas may keep us home. I have notice the highways aren't as crowed during the day as they once were. And paying the mailman may sound crazy right now. But we never thought we'd be paying to watch TV, either. Look how it has escalated. And watch for the radio to advance to charging.

yes like air, water , light ,the radio is still free. Do you know, crystal set, what in our childhood, we heard of, does not require even electricity ( I mean battery). You need only to have a head set, with the crystal set , one could listen the local radio station. Though it may sound now pre-historic!

well, you are so right... with all the prices increasing, it is getting harder to make ends meet nowadays... and thankfully, radio is still free... well, i hope God will always bless me and my hubby so that we will still have jobs to keep us alive... i really hope that the government will do something about the situations especially to help those poor people... take care and have a nice day...

I agree with you momalisa, The only thing we have to worry is every time we plug the radio and it will also use electricity..LOL!but, at least the news and services we heard are totally free! Anyway, if we will concentrate all these prices, I'll be adding more wrinkles!LOL!

you are so right! I do the same thing...I go into panic mode at the thought of maybe losing this computer or the phone but ya know...i'd be ok. I have lived without a phone and cable. I barely watch tv anyway. I am 52 and have only had internet for 10 years and i'll be ok. Heck, I lived in a tent for 4 months with 3 small children and a jerk of a husband....I will survive. I worry at times but I know I shouldn't. It is all about priorities. If I think too much about the cost of things and where the world seems to be heading, I do start to panic and then I kick back and think about it. When I was at my poorest point, that was when creativity set it. I did listen to the radio constantly and I read books and paid attention to my children and went for walks in the woods. They are grown now and will tell me that they never felt that we were poor.

I completely agree with you. There are still things free in the world, and nobody knows for how much longer. People took things for granted before and now we are more cautious about how and when we do things. Maybe we are still taking advantange of certian things. Hopefully things in the world get better soon.

History has proven that everything mankind has come up with for themselves a government will one day find a way or a reason to tax. Many of the taxes people all over the world pay are ridiculous and the governments still insist on payment. It gets worse when you live in a country where you don't get the service they promise. Trinidad is a country like that. Broken promises are the waving flags of the government here. Ask anybody. By the way, a point to remember is that the American Revolution was started by King George and his ridiculous taxes.

This weekend's evenings, there's a Special Investigation Unit on CNN on "Out of Gas" I've seen a tiny little part of it, and it seems like greed is becoming a problem and will eventually be self-defeating to us. An expert predicted that next year, we'll be have wars within the nation over oil and energy. Hopefully, our course changes before it gets there.

I love listening to the radio- and not really music, but talk radio. I just find it fascinating to hear all these callers call in with such varied opinions.