What a waste!

February 8, 2010

Politics, Television

$2.5 million of taxpayer money for a Superbowl ad? That is so WRONG! What’s even worse… this is what they came up with??

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17 Responses to “What a waste!”

  1. patti Says:
    8. February 2010 at 2:18 pm

    eegits – been watching these stupid ads for a while now. just plain stupid. still hoping i get the long form :D

  2. patti Says:
    8. February 2010 at 2:56 pm

    oooo – i’d pay somebody to be sure one of those hippies came to your door :D

  3. mike Says:
    8. February 2010 at 3:23 pm

    What was the total of the campaign package? 230 mil before it disappeared – Who is the Ad Agency that is being paid back for donating to the Democrats?
    I do not remember any adds in the past for this – they just knocked on our doors and as a couple questions as to how many people and the ages – I do not remember anything else or questionable. It was taught in school that this is done every 10 years and not to worry. Did they stop teaching this along with Math & English plus everything else needed to survive?

  4. megscole Says:
    8. February 2010 at 5:21 pm

    SO disgusted with the ads. They make me mad.

    Hubby said if he gets the mail before I do and there is a Census form he’s ripping it up and throwing it away. :angry: I LIKE filling out forms though. ROFL I’m so weird.

    But seriously…I figure if we don’t fill out the form we’ll be left out of something somewhere at sometime. He doesn’t want us to be tracked. LOL Paranoia???

    Thoughts??? :tinfoil:

    • pam Says:
      8. February 2010 at 5:28 pm

      I heard that it was the law that we fill them out. Only reason why I’d do it, truthfully.

      Basically, if you file income tax, the gubmint already knows that you live there, what your particulars are… they just don’t know how many live in your home.

  5. Peter Says:
    8. February 2010 at 8:33 pm

    There is a big mass of questions they ask these days, starting with race and sex. Last time I crossed out all the race choices and wrote “human”. With “sex” I wrote “not near often enough”. They then sent a couple people around to ask. I answered the question (again) about how many people. The rest I answered “you have no constitutional authority to ask that. They then said I was required to answer that. I then told ‘em to listen better because I just did answer the question. The eventually left. This year I’ll get the short form. :D

  6. mike Says:
    9. February 2010 at 3:39 am

    Pammy – do a search to see what we do have to answer

  7. vw bug Says:
    9. February 2010 at 5:56 am

    Sadly, I will fill it out for future generations doing geneology research but otherwise I would be pretty apt to give the government a hard time. Wasting money on ads… geeze.

  8. Joan of Argghh! Says:
    9. February 2010 at 8:02 am

    What they really wanted was something akin to the Audi commercial, with police and threats and arrests for non-compliance. You just know they did.

    I wonder who the voice of reason was in that particular marketing meeting. . .

  9. pam Says:
    9. February 2010 at 8:04 am

    From what I was able to glean, it is illegal to not answer. The fine is supposedly $100 if you refuse.

    Found this at LizMichael:

    Declaration To Make To Census Takers

    “I hereby affirm that the provisions of Title 13 “requiring” me to disclose my race, personal financial data, birthdate, or any other personal, private information to the Bureau of the Census, an agency of the United States government; constitutes an unreasonable, unwarranted search of my person, house, papers, and/or effects; and a governmental invasion of the sanctity of my home and the privacies of life. As such, these provisions violate the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution, and are thus wholly void and I am not bound to obey them.

    I have completed the only those sections of the Census form pertaining to the Constitutionally-mandated actual enumeration, as follows:

    1. The actual number of people living at the address printed on the form, excluding untaxed Native Americans;
    2. Age of each person in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2.
    3. Sex of each person, in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2.

    I have thus fulfilled my obligation to the attainment of the actual enumeration of the populace of the United States.

    Any fine or other sanction that is levied by any office or organization stemming from the unconstitutional provisions of Title 13 in connection with my response to this or any other Census-related questioning will be challenged in a court of law.”

  10. mike Says:
    10. February 2010 at 11:12 pm

    Thanx Love – that sounds like the only information we were asked in the past – I believe it was – how many, age, sex, & race and nothing more – might have asked income also – but no names or dates -