by ACTivist

Couple days ago (I’ve been busy-my standard excuse) I received an official government first class letter from the Census Bureau.  You remember when we got those letters saying a stimulus check would be forthcoming and then another letter saying that the stimulus was almost here and then the stimulus check finally came (I guess)?  Kinda like Santa writing you a letter saying he’s coming for Christmas then another letter saying “have you been a good boy/girl?’, getting your hopes up just to find a lump of coal in your stocking for all the hype….which is more than I got from the stimulus.

When Wolf sends me official paid by the taxpayers first class mailings telling me what is going on in the district I think “I pay $40 for internet and am on your e-mail list.  Why did you waste my money?”  Others just throw it out without reading.  Thank goodness Warner and Webb are too afaraid to mail us what they are doing or what they believe in.  At least that saves 44cents per mailing.  “It’s only 44 cents, ACT.  What’s the big deal?”  Okay, let’s extrapolate that.

The census letter states to fill out the census when it comes.  Why couldn’t this go into the same envelope with the census?  Does that “warning” mean that people will cancel vacations and outtings, just sitting around so they can make sure their community gets their “fair share”?  Say 300 million people in America.  Divide by 4 for the number of members to a family (average).  75 million letters times 44 cents is $33,000,000.  But wait.  The letter was addressed to RESIDENT.  I believe that there are 25% more homes than families to occupy them which means that EVERY VACANT HOME will get a census letter.  That would be another $8,250,000.  I won’t even include business addresses because I just don’t know.  We are up to $41,250,000 for just the first mailing.  This does not include the mailing of the census itself and then, probably, an additional reminder to get that census back quickly.  That number could  possibly grow to $123,750,000 or more.  Mind you this is very rough ballpark figures.

Do you see where I am going with this?  There is now $123,750,000 less to distribute of your money to your community because of these mailings.  All for just 44 cents each.  If this was corporate America doing this then it would make “cents” because you have to spend money to make money.  The government spends YOUR money so that it can spend MORE of YOUR money.  I guess it is nothing more than trying to keep the USPS afloat without you knowing about it.  Otherwise, this just doesn’t make “cents” to me.

UPDATE  Watch this video here and be warned!