[Arthur Wildfire! March]

When you turn on that radio and "listen for free", it is because someone else is paying the bills (in this case, advertisers). Now, reapeat after me: THERE AIN'T NO SUCH THING AS FREE LUNCH"!!!!

Huh? I'm forced to pay the advertisers? I never saw the bill in the mail....

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

I hope you were joking- because whether or not YOU personally "pay" the advertisers, they ARE paid (or the show is canceled toute suite!)

However, the economic argument does not hinge entirely on the transfer of money- because theree ARE advertisers, you are more or less forced to use some of your time listening to their pitch.

Oh, you say, I always turn the volume down, so I get to skip the advertisemnets... In that case, you are "paying" by having fewer minutes of actual programming to listen to.

Of course, if you subscribe to Rushes premium website, you can listen to any show broadcast over the past 14 days, WITHOUT any interruptions, anytime you choose. I find this to be worth the twelve cents a show it costs me.

You may not- I don't make my living trying to convince people to lisyten to Rush, so it doesn't matter to me what you do. But the complete lack of understanding of basic economics bothers me. (Of course, it really isn't taught in American schools, except as a subset of the Socialist indoctrination that goes on there...)

TANSTAAFL"