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Census Bureau Letter A Senseless Waste Of Money
The author attached a copy of the letter from the Census Bureau Friday afternoon.
Robert M. Groves should be fired.
He is obviously a useless bureaucrat, a prime example of all things wasteful in Washington, DC and a Presidential appointee who appears to have never worked in the "real world."
I'm usually not this irritated by another human being, especially one whom I've never met. I do have a low tolerance for morons, but they almost always have to be in my immediate proximity. Kind of like the lady who decided to answer her cell phone while attempting to simultaneously check out at a store in front of me the other day.
I didn't want her fired.
Just dead.
But only dead during the time she was trying to carry on a phone conversation and check out at the same time and doing neither particularly well.
But Robert M. Groves, I want fired.
I'd never heard of Mr. Groves before earlier this week. I was going through the mail at home and came upon an official looking letter from the Census Bureau. The envelope announced that it contained our household's census form.
I thought that was odd. We'd gotten an envelope just last week from the Census Bureau. I thought that was our census form. So I found that envelope in the stack of bills where it had been filed and opened it.
That is when I realized that Robert M. Groves should be fired.
Robert M. Groves is the Director of the U.S. Census Bureau. According to Wikipedia, he is also an author and research professor at both the University of Michigan and the University of Maryland.
In addition, he is an bungling bureaucrat who should be fired. That part is not in Wikipedia. That's my opinion. I think he is an excellent example of the idiotic nincompoops who get put in charge of bloated government agencies and piddle away taxpayer money on foolishness.
"What they heck, it's only money. The fed can always print more," seems to be his type's attitude. They seem oblivious to the fact our country's national debt is at nearly $12.6 trillion and rising.
I base this opinion of Mr. Groves' lax fiscal competence on the letter I received from the Census Bureau last week. I'm sure all of you reading this got the same letter. It told me that I would be receiving a census form in about a week. Robert M. Groves' signature was on the bottom of the letter.
What purpose does a letter telling me to expect another letter the following week, actually serve?
Apparently, Mr. Groves has not heard of the "mass media" that includes things like "newspapers" and "television" and "radio" and that new-fangled thing called "the Internet."
The members of the mass media who call themselves "journalists" have been talking about the 2010 census almost to the point of excess for at least the last month. Not a day goes by that I don't see, read or hear about how important the census is for future federal funding and political power. The word is out about the census. Everyone with at least half a clue is aware that the census is underway, and the one's who don't, really don't need to be counted.
But Mr. Groves apparently felt the need to remind every household of the same information being drummed into us by the mass media, just in case the person in the household who would fill out the form had been in a coma since January.
By my calculations, this completely unnecessary mass mailing telling everyone that a census form will be delivered to their home, cost over $30 million when you factor in the paper, the envelope, printing costs and bulk-rate postage required to deliver it to at least 105,000,000 U.S. households. That doesn't even include all the incidental labor required to process this ridiculous waste of taxpayer money.
And for those who are curious, the Census Bureau does not get franking privileges like the members of Congress. That government agency uses USPS Permit G-58.
To be fair, this excessive mailing may not be Mr. Grove's idea. He may just be following the playbook of previous directors of the Census Bureau. Or he may be following some legislative mandate from Congress micromanaging the Census Bureau to send out notices ahead of the census regardless of cost.
So he could be just following orders. But even if this census notification is a mandate from Congress, it is stupid and wasteful and completely and utterly unnecessary.
And Robert M. Groves should be fired for authorizing it.
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Here's a copy of the letter that the Census Bureau feels is an efficient and good use of taxpayer dollars. |
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