Watching the Super Bowl this weekend? See if you can spot what your taxes paid for.
A lot of you probably have plans to watch the Super Bowl this Sunday. Maybe you’re going to be having a Super Bowl party. Maybe you’re going to watch it at a sports bar. If you are, make sure you pay real close attention during the commercials. Your tax dollars paid for one of them.
Taxpayers might want to pay close attention to this Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast or they’ll miss Uncle Sam’s 30-second, $2.5-million reminder to stand up and be counted.
That’s what the Census Bureau paid CBS to get their message notched somewhere between a National Lampoon reprisal, a weird dude with big glasses, a beer-can house and men without pants.
And, that’s just a fraction of what the bureau plans to spend this year to get Americans to answer a simple, 10-question survey.
The bureau is spending $133 million between January and May — or, more than $13 million for each of 10 questions, one of which reads: What is your telephone number? — to publicize the national head-count. Part of that effort is the Super Bowl ad, which Kendall Johnson, a spokeswoman for the bureau, confirmed Wednesday to FoxNews.com cost $2.5 million to air. The ad, produced by actor and director Christopher Guest, also will appear in other media, Johnson said.
It’s insane that the government is spending so much money on a freaking public service announcement. Obama has already quadrupled the deficit. Unemployment is out of control. The economy is showing no signs of improving. Yet, Obama still found it necessary to spend $2.5 million on a 30 second ad? It’s as if this ad sums up the entire problem with the Obama presidency. To them, what’s another few million dollars? It’s as if Marie Antoinette has been reincarnated into our new president, who is just as clueless as she was. Why on earth do we need a $2.5 million commercial for the census during the Super Bowl? To put this into perspective, even Pepsi isn’t buying any ad spots during the game. Pepsi decided not to buy any because… it was too expensive. We’re spending more and more money on more and more crap that doesn’t even matter. There’s no reason to have an ad for the census during the Super Bowl, none whatsoever.
Oh, and check out this interesting little nugget about the census:
Every U.S. household, including those occupied by non-citizens and illegal immigrants, must be counted.
Including illegal immigrants. Way to go, Obama. You’ve turned something that’s fairly routine into another FUBAR mess.
Cross-posted from Cassy’s blog. Stop by for more original commentary, or follow her on Twitter!
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Posted by Cassy Fiano on February 5, 2010 8:35 pm
» Filed Under Barack Obama, Economy, Fox News, Government malfeasance/misfeasance, Hypocrisy/Situational Ethics, Illegal Aliens/Immigration, News, Stupidity, Taxes, Unemployment, liberalism
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That’s not all you’re going to see. An Obama propaganda session is promised for the pre-game show, mediated by none other than Katie Couric. I just can’t wait. I’ve already e-mailed CBS and told them I’d be turning off my TV, and e-mailing their sponsors.