The Census Bureau wasted $2.5 million tax dollars to run one thirty second commercial during the Super Bowl. We can only assume they wanted to run as many spots as Bud, but held back out of respect for the new austerity program the President talked about during his State of the Union Address.
As if pounding $2.5 million down a rat hole wasn’t bad enough, the commercial was easily the most remarkably dull, mind-numbingly unintelligible commercial of the day.
Your tax dollars at work.
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Yeah, I have no clue why they ran this during the Super Bowl of all places. Hell for the same cost they probably could have run it in nearly every prime time show the following week and gotten the same level of exposure.
It figures. Ed Begley Jr., a certified nutcase.
You forgot to mention the cash that the two government motors companies dumped into the “rat hole”….Chrysler and GM.
I will repeat what I put on FB-that 2.5-and the rest of the 400 million they are spending to market the census could have been better used to help some of the 200,000 veterans who have been forever injured in Iraq and Afghanistan-and the families of the roughly 5,000 men/women killed in those two theaters of action. Since VA isn’t providing properly for any of them, it would be nice if another branch of the G could throw a little money their way to buy food for and clothe their kids….I’m just sayin…
Oh yeah, and someone should beat the shit out of ed begley.
What I don’t get is why they need to “market the census” at all. I mean what, are they afraid people won’t fill it out? What’ the benefit? What’s the point?
I take comfort in knowing that every dollar spent on superbowl ad was a dollar not spent by Acor.
I don’t understand the purpose either. Once the mail cards come in people who are not idiots will know about it. Most people have TV’s too it is in the media constantly. I don’t get the purpose it is not like it is the first census in the world nor in this country. I feel as if this is something that Obama doesnt want to screw up and he wants to make sure everyone participates or something.
Pretty sure there are some Founding Fathers rolling in their graves.
One census worker asked someone in the hood, what race…he said 220 High Hurdles!
My Black Scotty ate my census form. He objects to being called Negro Scotty but because he has a kind heart, he did send back some Red Zinger Tea.. and the next days results.