Census and Sensibility

More Federal government waste under Democrat leadership.  Shocking I know!

Most of you have probably received a letter from the US Census Bureau in recent days.  The purpose of this census letter is apparently to inform all of us ignorant proletariat that there is a census coming.  I suppose this might have been news to someone, but I can’t imagine that too many were unaware of the upcoming count.

Given that the number of households that would be caught with their pants down on this, it seems that this might not have been the best use of taxpayer money.  Given also that most people that choose to ignore the census when it arrives would likely ignore this letter even more studiously, it is definitely a waste of money.

How much money you ask?

Well, let’s assume that the postage was free.  We will also ignore the cost of ink/toner, equipment hours and depreciation, and manhours, and only concentrate on the envelope and paper.  GSA prices copy paper at $28.83 for 2500 sheets of low-quality paper (a little over a penny a page).  Envelopes prices were $28.21 for 500 (close to 6 cents per envelope).  The census bureau’s own estimate of the number of households in the US for 2010 is 114,825,428.  The total per mailing for just paper and envelope is over $7,940,000!  Compared with the spending of this administration and this Congress, this is chump change.  It is however, an example of the willingness of this group to waste money during difficult economic times.  This is irresponsible, and frankly, stupid.

These are the people we are supposed to trust with 1/6th of our economy?

I don’t think so. 

This entry was posted on 13. March 2010 at 16:37 and is filed under Things Obama Doesn't Understand, Its Only Hypocrisy If The Right Does It. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

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