Super Waste at the Super Bowl

The Union Leader newspaper in New Hampshire has a correct view of the absurd $130 million "census awareness budget," inlcuding the reprehensible decision to squander $2.5 million on an ad during the Super Bowl. It's bad enough that the Census has evolved into an exercise in nanny-state intrusion, rather than the simple head-counting exercise as our Founders envisioned. But it adds insult to injury (or should it be injury to insult?) that our tax dollars are being wasted to publicize the exercise. Anybody want to guess whether the public relations agency that got the contract for this boondoggle donated money to Obama?

Did you see that Super Bowl ad for the U.S. Census? If not, too bad, because you paid $2.5 million for it. Maybe you can catch it on YouTube. If you think that's outrageous, it gets worse. The $2.5 million is just 1.9 percent of the government's $130 million "census awareness budget." Oh, yes. Just in case you didn't know that Census Bureau workers will be coming to your home this year to do what they have done every 10 years for more than two centuries, Washington is spending $130 million of your money to tell you. ...It's also par for the course in a Washington so awash in money that $130 million isn't considered serious spending, and yet the government still manages to outspend revenues by $1.6 trillion.