Comments on: Your government at work: What $42 million can buy

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[...] Sense to Save shares her thoughts on the $42 million the US Government spent to mail out the economic stimulus letters. What a waste! [...]

By: PT

PT — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:06:41 +0000

I haven’t even recieved my letter. What gives?

By: castocreations

castocreations — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:05:32 +0000

Oy…I could not believe they did this … well, yes I could. But it’s so infuriating.

Such a ridiculous waste of money - like they need to do things like this to justify their existence. Couldn’t they just save that money and tack it on to our “rebate” (which is another ridiculous issue in itself).

Great blog. :)

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:59:15 +0000

They were hoping the letters would be received in time to influence people to vote Republican in the primaries. “Ooh, the Republicans are good, they send us money!” This is NOT a slam, I’m sure the Democrats would have done the same thing.

P.S., living in PA all my life, I didn’t know until this year that people in other states weren’t limited to voting for only their registered party in the primaries.

By: A

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:24:47 +0000

Hopefully this was the only round of letters they’ve mailed out.

I’m sending in my tax return on Monday and I’ll be pissed if money is wasted sending out letters.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:11:15 +0000

We wrote a similair article on our site about the same thing, and then I got my “letter” today. Honestly, doesn’t the federal government have the where-with-all to just email us?

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:51:06 +0000

This country frightens me- I can see why our economy is in such a slump. This is so ridiculous!

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:07:36 +0000

Ain’t government grand???? It’s amazing the waste that comes out of DC! You would think that people with so much education would know a smidgen(love that word!) more about finances and being good stewards! Argh!!! Makes me want to scream sometimes!

By: Mrs. Mecomber

Mrs. Mecomber — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:36:17 +0000

I got the mail, too. What a waste. Yes, it definitely can be better spent. This “economic stimulus” plan is just another scheme to pump $$$ into the bankers and govmt, because the government is BORROWING all that money to send us. What idiots!

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:38:02 +0000

Welcome to America, pretty sad, huh? I can’t imagine how any of this is going to fix the economy.