Another Census Absurdity
Posted by Anthony Gregory on 03/15/10 6:50 PM
We often hear the reason we need the census, especially in its invasive modern form, is to figure out how best to spend government money for necessary social infrastructure. But the census bureau itself, a relatively modest institution for a federal agency, has gone significantly over budget. "Auditors also found the Census Bureau provided training to some 15,000 workers who either worked not at all or less than a single day -- at a total cost of $5.5 million." This is peanuts compared to the stimulus-bailout-corporatist-warfare state we now live under, and yet to tout the census as necessary to determine reasonable uses of tax dollars strikes me as absurd, or at least quite ironic. After all, if we want to consider more reasonable uses of tax dollars, why not just cut from those areas that most obviously do little to help average Americans—overseas militarism and foreign aid, Wall Street and corporate subsidies and the like? Every government program is advertised as necessary for fiscal responsibility, no matter how much it costs.
SOURCE: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=33564
Census Bureau Over Budget as Heavy Counting Gets Under Way
FOXNews.com
March 15, 2010
The U.S. Census is well into conducting its constitutionally mandated 2010 count but the exercise is already running over budget.
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