{"id":4909,"date":"2010-03-10T05:15:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T11:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2010-03-10T08:25:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:25:46","slug":"census-schmensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/?p=4909","title":{"rendered":"Census Schmensus…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can actually understand the reason for a census. It makes sense, it really does. Some of the questions that some of us will be asked, however, I do have problems with.<\/p>\n

But, that’s a different topic and one that I will deal with myself.<\/p>\n

Right now, I’m interested in the money.<\/p>\n

Now, since I know that a census is necessary, I know that the money has to be spent to take one. No biggie there. But, by the same token, I also know that we have a huge deficit, a president who is trying to pay for health care reform and a bailout (for which he is not ENTIRELY to blame), and we deal every day with a bastardized version of what our government really should be. However, my personal politics aren’t the issue here either… Hell, I’ve made no secret that I wrote my wife’s name in on the ballot during the last presidential election because I didn’t feel confident in any<\/em> of the candidates.<\/p>\n

No… We’re just coming back to the money…<\/p>\n

So, although the CIA \/ NSA \/ HS data miners will probably add me to the terrorist watch lists for having the gall to post this blog, I have a question:<\/p>\n

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How much did it cost taxpayers to send out this letter and was it REALLY necessary?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n


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Yeah, okay, that was two questions… But, come on folks. Between paper, envelopes, postage, printing, electricity, and everything that was necessary to accomplish this “pre-emptive warning of impending census” don’t you think maybe we could have paid for a few of those “snow days” or something like that?<\/p>\n

More to come…<\/p>\n

Murv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warning: Impending Census. You have been warned… A question for our government from author M. R. Sellars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,497,6,61],"tags":[921,1379,8162,87,3777,2393,480,3778,556,1523,88,86,940,3495,103,200,56],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-evil-redhead","category-news-and-politics","category-rant","tag-add","tag-blog","tag-e-k","tag-election","tag-entirely","tag-hs","tag-money","tag-murv-warning-impending-census","tag-nsa","tag-paper","tag-politics","tag-president","tag-questions","tag-really","tag-reform","tag-snow","tag-wife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}