Hey, US Government?

[agilebrit]

I get that it's Very Very Important that I fill the census thing out and send it back to you.

In fact, I did it the day the thing arrived in the mail.

However, I'm quite miffed that you're spending my hard-earned tax dollars that could be better spent elsewhere to send me not ONE, but TWO letters letting me know, first of all, that the cursed thing was coming, and then an ADDITIONAL postcard telling me How Very Important it is that I fill it out and send it back. When I've already done so.

Also, I don't like your incessant TV ads. How many of my tax dollars were spent on those?

And you're the people we're supposed to trust with our health care?

Yeah, RIGHT.

Sincerely,

agilebrit, who is skeptical that you will ever do anything right ever again

Comments

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

That's what I did. I'm of mixed heritage and sure, I could have "checked all that applied" but honestly? I don't see why they need to know that information in order to determine apportionment for elections.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Why does it matter, exactly?

[hitchhiker-42.livejournal.com]

Here in the South at least, they want that info so they can draw districts such that they have people of all one race in them, insofar as possible. They say that down here, people are represented better by congresscritters that look like them, but that doesn't apply in the more enlightened North, so they get square districts, or broken down by party, like would make sense.

Thus saith my gov't professor, though perhaps not quite as sarcastically as I have related here.