Why is it that the commercials I keep hearing for the census use things like schools and buses as an example of the kind of thing we need to “get our fair share” of? After all, the last I looked, I pay taxes for my local schools, and taxes on my license tabs to pay for the Pierce and Sound Transit buses no one is riding?
Oh yeah, because the Feds never met a dollar with strings that they didn’t love to give out.
TV & Radio & Billboard ads telling me the census is coming.
$250 million stupid SuperBowl ad
Three waves of pre-census boots-on-the-ground to collect all the addresses (and verify, and check up on the verifiers).
Letter to my house telling me my census form is coming.
Actual census form.
Quasi-threating postcard telling me I have to return census (when I already had).
And now news stories saying they knew almost a year ago that their IT infrastructure wasn’t going to be good enough.
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So when I see a billboard telling me that “we” need to know how big our community is, so “we” know how big to build our hospital(s), I want know:
1) when was the newest hospital around here built? (Hint: before the previous 2 census [censii?] – so no growth since then?)
2) Who’s this “we” they’re talking about? The three closest hospitals to me are all private hospitals – not goverment built or funded.