Counting Our Way To More Federal Dollars
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Ask not what you can do for your country – ask how much your federal government can spend on you. We’re told by this insightful news account in the Reno Gazette Journal that everybody counted in the 2010 Census means $917 per person, per year in federal grant money. Nevada collecting on each man, woman and child is such a priority that we’re told the Nevada Legislature is going to spend at least $1 Million in an advertising/marketing campaign to get each of us to play our part in completing census forms.
You’ve got a job to do (even if your unemployed – perhaps even more so if that is the case). It is our responsibility as citizens to make sure that some other state doesn’t get Nevada’s share of the federal dollars that should be coming here.
We couldn’t help but note with interest the final line of the Journal’s news account, indicating that “people are not asked if they are U.S. citizens”… so we can even include those who aren’t citizens in our count. Thank goodness for that since getting bigger checks from the U.S. government is all that really matters anyway. Perhaps Nevada should be re-examining its plan to hold ACORN accountable for violations of paying voter registraton people for signing people up for voting…their community service could be served in counting for the census.
Ask not what you can do for your country – ask how much your federal government can spend on you. We’re told by this insightful news account in the Reno Gazette Journal that everybody counted in the 2010 Census means $917 per person, per year in federal grant money. Nevada collecting on each man, woman and child is such a priority that we’re told the Nevada Legislature is going to spend at least $1 Million in an advertising/marketing campaign to get each of us to play our part in completing census forms.
You’ve got a job to do (even if your unemployed – perhaps even more so if that is the case). It is our responsibility as citizens to make sure that some other state doesn’t get Nevada’s share of the federal dollars that should be coming here.
We couldn’t help but note with interest the final line of the Journal’s news account, indicating that “people are not asked if they are U.S. citizens”… so we can even include those who aren’t citizens in our count. Thank goodness for that since getting bigger checks from the U.S. government is all that really matters anyway. Perhaps Nevada should be re-examining its plan to hold ACORN accountable for violations of paying voter registraton people for signing people up for voting…their community service could be served in counting for the census.
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