Our Tax Money at Work

From Michelle Malkin: "The U.S. Census Bureau will squander $2.5 million on a half-minute Super Bowl ad starring D-list celebrity Ed Begley, Jr., plus two pre-game blurbs and 12-second “vignettes” featuring Super Bowl anchor James Brown. It’s a drop in the Census boondoggle bucket (otherwise known as the tax-subsidized National Democrat Future Voter Outreach Drive). The Obama White House has allocated a total of $340 million on an “unprecedented” promotional blitz for the 2010 Census. That’s on top of $1 billion in stimulus money siphoned off for increased Census “public outreach” and staffing. In all, the Census will triple its total budget from 2000 to $15 billion.
Ads pimping the Census have already appeared during the Golden Globe awards and will broadcast during the Daytona 500 and NCAA Final Four championships. Some $80 million will be poured into multi-lingual ads in 28 languages from Arabic to Yiddish. Racial and ethnic groups have been squabbling over their share of the pie."http://michellemalkin.com/2010/02/05/the-super-sized-census-boondoggle/
This is taxpayer money the Census is spending. In Las Vegas, you can't go more than an hour, at least it seems that way, without hearing an advertisement for the census.
Yes, we have to spend money on the census, I don't disagree with that. But the Super Bowl? Daytona 500? Final 4? These are the most expensive TV ad's possible, but hey, it's just the taxpayer's money, isn't it?