While about two thirds of the country watched in disbelief this past Sunday as the ObamaCare bill was rammed down our throats despite the heroic efforts of some like our own Rep. Jason Altmire, there was yet another example of government waste going on. That waste was labeled as the U.S. Census.

The U.S. Census was sold to us this time around as a way to make sure we "got our fair share". Even conservative areas like where I live in Cranberry Township saw their leaders begging citizens to be counted. I can't argue with the logic that goes as follows: "It is there and going to be spent somewhere so we might as well get our fair share and have it spent here for us". Of course I trust it to be spent here better than most places and of course more tax dollars are taken from the citizens in Cranberry than in most. However, I would like to propose a wild and crazy theory of my own. It is "don't tax us so much in the first place and allow us to keep OUR money and decide what to do with it ourselves".

The money (our tax dollars) was spent in the following manner. Commercials on national TV including during expensive sporting events were played over and over telling us the importance of the Census. Those commercials had such fine upstanding citizens as Ed Beighley Jr. who is a well known Liberal. Then I received a mailer from Cranberry Township telling me the importance of the Census. Then another mailer from the Federal Government telling me that I should be receiving our Census in a few days and that it was very important, you know…so we can have our tax dollars spent wiselyy. About a week ago the ACTUAL Census did arrive at which time I took a few minutes to fill it out and send it back. Finally, today I received yet another mailer telling me that I should have received the Census by now and that it is important for me to fill it out and mail it back.

So, I guess the message they were trying to convey is that we need to all fill out the census so that we can be properly allotted the resources from our tax dollars to run the next census. This is just the tip of the iceberg compared to the senseless waste they will be able to perpetrate upon us with the new ObamaCare plan as we march toward socialism.