Government waste at it's best

Fieldmouse · 03-08-2010, 07:48 PM

The US Census office. So we all know about the million dollar plus super bowl commercial. Last year I got one of those extra long ones in the mail and assumed it was the census. I began to fill it out, skipping most of the questions because they were too personal and not required by the Constitution. Then I saw the part that it was a trial run, so I tore it up and in the trash it went. A month later another one came saying they didn't recieve the first one. I think I threw it out again. Then another one came and I realized these idiots were serious. I replied back in big letters, quit bothering me with this crap, send me the normal form when it is reguired and I will fill it out. Never heard from them again until today. I got a letter telling me I should get the official one next week. OMG, does anyone care that it's our money they are wasting in DC on this crap? I guess Obama has found away to keep postal workers employed a little longer.

tight360 · 03-08-2010, 08:23 PM

So thats what happened to all my Fed land tree stands

brewman555 · 03-09-2010, 03:02 AM

I got a letter yesterday from the U.S.Census Office telling me that i would get another letter with the census in it in the next week or two.....a letter telling me i`m gonna get a letter......What a waste of our tax money...

The Rev · 03-09-2010, 03:39 AM

I got one in the mail yesterday too, I just piled it on the counter top like I do the other junk mail.

emptyquiver2 · 03-09-2010, 03:46 AM

FM, was the notice that informed you that it was a trial run printed on the vital form or was it on a separate sheet.

Fieldmouse · 03-09-2010, 04:02 AM

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Originally Posted by emptyquiver2

FM, was the notice that informed you that it was a trial run printed on the vital form or was it on a separate sheet.

It was the long version form that I heard so much about. It wanted detail that in no way would I ever give voluntary to the government. They said the purpose of it was to guage the acceptance and see how well it would do. They found out what I thought of it. They will find out again if the send that same form to me.

emptyquiver2 · 03-09-2010, 04:08 AM

My concern is if these multiple trial forms could find themselves counted in the census.

The Rev · 03-09-2010, 04:28 AM

You two spawned my interest so I went downstairs and got my Census letter addressed to Resident. They just wanted to inform me that a week from now I would be receiving another letter..
The thing I found interesting was at the bottom telling when the Census form arrives I should go to 2010census.gov. This was in five languages. (I wonder if they will give laptops to those without computers)

I wonder just how much this junk mail cost us.

Fieldmouse · 03-09-2010, 04:38 AM

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Originally Posted by emptyquiver2

My concern is if these multiple trial forms could find themselves counted in the census.

good point. It was an official letter. I can't remember where on it, seperate letter or on the form, I saw it was a trial run.

emptyquiver2 · 03-09-2010, 05:15 AM

I cannot remember a trial run in the past, am I wrong? With the prospect of millions of trial runs, there must be an army of auditors viewing the data, making corrections and then notifing citizens where they erred.