2010 Census

Did anyone else get a letter from the Census Bureau? Of course you did. I got one addresses to "resident" so I bet you got one too. How many of these went out? 80 million? 90 million? I would guess that it's somewhere around that number. If a stamp cost $0.47 then I estimate that this cost the government, or maybe I should say the taxpayer, somewhere in the neighborhood of $40 million (40,000,000).

Did I mention that the letter states we will be getting our Census form soon? I didn't? How careless of me. What the hell are they thinking in Washington? First there was the 30 second spot during the Super Bowl, then there have been the commercials with Ed Begley Jr. What has all that cost just to tell us something we already know? The Census Bureau was formed in 1903 and the Constitution even states that the population will be counted every ten years. So why all the letters and commercials?

Now I would understand if Press Secretary Gibbs (as you know one of my favorite people) mentioned it about once every day for a while. Maybe someone would pick up on it and mention it during a news cast. I might be more understanding if a public service announcement was made, but not during the Super Bowl at $2.5 million for 30 seconds. And without that goofball Begley. Yes, I think he's a goofy guy, but I have to give him credit for being one that walks the walk when it comes to going green.

Then there's the fact that there is a post script of sorts that is written in six different languages including English. The other languages appear to be Spanish, I can't tell if it's Chinese or Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Russian. I didn't realize that we were counting people in these countries too. I know somebody who doesn't know me will call me a racist for this next remark, but I thought we spoke English here in America. I realize we have immigrants from all over the world, but come on, when does this end?

The idea we needed a letter to let us know something we already knew is ludicrous. Even the people that legally immigrated here during the last 10 years would have figured out that we count the folks every time we have a year that ends in the number zero. I don't care about the illegal immigrants being counted. They shouldn't be, period. I believe that groups like the ACLU, ACORN and the DNC would like to count these folks if for no other reason than to increase their base, but as they are here illegally they are criminals and shouldn't be counted.

So once again we have a government that is just spending our money without a care and we are supposed to be thankful that they are doing it. BS. I am tired of these idiots just doing whatever they want without fear of the consequences. It's time we hold them accountable for their collective actions and vote all of them out of office in November.

It's too bad we have to wait two more Novembers after that to get rid of the biggest problem in Washington.