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

[roseaponi.livejournal.com]

Hey, I think they forgot to send me one of the preliminary letters. I've had one letter, one form, and one postcard. Honestly, I had to remind myself that my county is already rather poor and needs all the help it can get before I could convince myself to go ahead and fill out the thing.

As far as the health care... um, I have mixed feelings. A lot of what I've read in summary doesn't sound half as bad as it could have been, at least on the surface, but I don't understand how they're justifying what looks like a deliberate move to flush Medicare down the toilet.

First, they flood the system with lots of newly qualified people, and then they open a big gaping void in Medicare reimbursements to doctors and hospitals? Isn't that the basic mechanism of a toilet? My parents are on Medicare (and VA, which is going to be flooded too, since we are at war and acquiring new veterans at a steady rate)and now, Medicare is going to be worthless. And there aren't enough medical professionals to go around.

Somebody needs to invent a vaccine against stupid.