Yesterday I received a letter on the Census.
This letter in fact:
Good thing they WARNED me I would be receiving yet another letter next week that actually contained the Census.
For real?
They spent my tax dollars to send me a freakin’ pre-letter to a letter? How much did this cost my child’s future? 1.9 Billion dollars in stamps, ink, and paper?
How many trees died for this crap?
This was the biggest waste of blatant government spending that has ever hit my mail box.
Someone obviously needs to be fired. Let’s start with that nit-wit Robert Groves.
~Trisha
Of course, the info is to make sure the party in power gets all the right lines drawn for votes. It has less to do with census. There are some key words in that letter. So, they will fight this out, too.
I thought the exact same thing when I got the letter earlier today.
UGH — we received our letter too . . .and Hubby pretty much had the same response. Honestly, the ad-campaign for the census is a bit much — the letter, celebrity/comedians in commercials . . . newspaper and magazine ads. Wow. AND, for the past year (at least in Houston), they had “address verifiers” working to verify house numbers, etc.
Again, “Ugh” . . . why so much?
LOL I just checked my mail today…and this was in it. MORONS!
No kidding. I full assumed it was the actual census, so I opened it. It was like their version of census crying wolf.
totally agree that it was a waste of money!
I agree..waste of money!
They did this LAST time too – I remember thinking how stupid it was…
LOL we got the same thing yesterday!
If the letter is your only prior notification, you’ve been lucky, trust me! At every PTA meeting, at my daughters’ after-school program, across billboards, I’ve been practically assaulted by the Census’ marketing campaign!
I totally get that it’s important, I plan to participate, but man, I’m so tired of being pushed and prodded, it’s nearly making me NOT want to take part!
(sent here by Jessica Gottlieb’s buzz recommendation)
I got the same letter and pretty much responded the same way to hubby. Waste of time and money they have spent on this Census.
Ditto, what a waste of money. I think it has really been getting around like someone else said, people would have to be living under a rock to not know it is this year.
I thought the exact same thing when my letter came yesterday. I seem to remember them sending a letter that I’d be receiving a stimulus check a few years back. Seems like that cost almost $2 million just to mail out the letter…then another $2 million to mail the checks. Makes a lot of sense to me…not.
–>Thank you! I thought the exact same thing when I opened up my letter yesterday. They did the same thing before they sent us the stimulus checks a few years ago. I D I O T S!
~deb
Yeah, because this hasn’t been on the news or anything. You would have to be living under a rock to not already know about this.
The only thing that I can think of to remote justify (HA) that letter is to give people the heads-up that it is coming and not be surprised by it. But I honestly wonder how many of those forms will not be responded to.
cracking up. I agree it is such a waste. You should see all the crap ssi sends us each month for the boys to let us know we will be recieving the same amount.
My husband I had a good laugh about that as well. Nice of them to keep their pals at the post office in business.
Here’s another fine use of tax payer’s dollars … Last week I had someone from the U.S, House of Representatives land on my blog searching for malted milk balls candy. Secret Hershey’s Whopper initiative or case of the munchies?
I thought the same thing when I received my “Warning” letter
AMEN Trisha! Had my website not been down for the last 27+ hours I was going to blog about this (still will eventually and link up here). Unreal that we are wasting time, money, resources and trees to send a warning letter about the census. Right now you hear about it every place you go, why the need for this. Money that was used on this could have been spent on education funding that is being cut around the country. That would have helped the kids a lot more than the FYI Census letter.