Hey, US Government?

[agilebrit]

I get that it's Very Very Important that I fill the census thing out and send it back to you.

In fact, I did it the day the thing arrived in the mail.

However, I'm quite miffed that you're spending my hard-earned tax dollars that could be better spent elsewhere to send me not ONE, but TWO letters letting me know, first of all, that the cursed

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[roseaponi]

Hey, I think they forgot to send me one of the preliminary letters. I've had one letter, one form, and one postcard. Honestly, I had to remind myself that my county is already rather poor and needs all the help it can get before I could convince myself to go ahead and fill out the thing.

As far as the health care... um, I have mixed feelings. A lot of what I've read in summary doesn't sound half as bad as it could have been, at least on the surface, but I don't understand how they're justifying what looks like a deliberate move to flush Medicare down the toilet.

First, they flood the system with lots of newly qualified people, and then they open a big gaping void in Medicare reimbursements to doctors and hospitals? Isn't that the basic mechanism of a toilet? My parents are on Medicare (and VA, which is going to be flooded too, since we are at war and acquiring new veterans at a steady rate)and now, Medicare is going to be worthless. And there aren't enough medical professionals to go around.

Somebody needs to invent a vaccine against stupid.