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Census Spends $52 Million On Letter Alerting Americans That They’ll Be Getting Another Letter

http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/census_spends_5.2_million_on_letter_alerting_americans_that_theyll_be_getti/

Makes perfect sense, right?

That $52 million number is a calculation I did based on the reported 120 million letters that were reportedly sent out at a cost of $0.44/letter.  Now, granted, the Census folks no doubt used bulk mailing and paid a lower price for postage.  But there’s also the expense of the paper and the envelope and the time it took to compose the letter through the bureaucratic process and actually, you know, mail it.

But even if my calculation is way off, the idea that millions were spent on this is appalling.

And were are the environmentalists on this wanton waste of paper?  We live in an age where the EPA is declaring the air that we exhale to be a dangerous pollutant, and proposing big new taxes and regulations making our lives more expensive and limiting our freedoms,and the government is sending us letters telling us we’re going to getanother letter?

But don’t worry, ladies and gentleman.  These idiots can totally run your health care for you better than you can.