Sometimes you don\u2019t know whether to laugh or cry at the wastefulness of the government at all levels with our life\u2019s resources!<\/p>\n
Today I received a letter from U.S. Census Bureau informing me that I was to get ready to receive the actual 2010 Census form in the mail in about a week or so, and of course it was written in five different languages so that all the illegal aliens could respond and get counted too.<\/p>\n
Now we all have been watching for several weeks these, probably not inexpensive, Madison Avenue TV, News and Magazine print ads to alert everyone to the fact that the Census Is Coming! The U.S. Census Director Robert M. Groves must think we have the attention span of a gnat with all these early warnings that the Census is \u201cA\u2019coming!\u201d<\/p>\n
But then if Mr. Groves had any competence he would just mail out the Census form, or better yet set up a Web site so they could get paperless responses. But then you probably would not spend the estimated $14 billion on this very simple head-counting project. Well, Mr. Groves, I\u2019m at the ready, so shut off the early-alert system.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Gary Kennedy<\/p>\n
Des Moines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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