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Biggest waste of money from our Gov

Submitted by Robert Oak on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 01:41.

The Census ran a super bowl ad. I think it's 3 million for 30 seconds. $3 million could have hired how many temporary workers?

Seriously, the only way to inform the public is to run some attempt to be funny ad that if someone is stupid enough not to know the Census is going on this year they would understand (not!) to the tune of $3 million dollars minimum?

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Actually the biggest waste of government money

Submitted by RebelCapitalist on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 09:08.

was the several hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild Iraq. Don't forget.

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