Didja see that football game?
Probably one of the best games in many years, regardless of who you were pullin' for.
And of course, everybody's talkin' 'bout the commercials.
Probably the only show each year where the commercials are looked forward to as much as the show itself.
Well this year, for the first time ever, your commercials got run.
Now, I'm not talking 'bout your favorite commercials... nope, I'm talkin' bout the ones you actually paid for out of your own pocket.
The ones you, personally, gave up your tax dollars to fund.
To the tune of about $2.6 million for each 30 second TV spot.
What?
You didn't get asked whether that's how you wanted to spend your money?
Relax.
None of us did.
The O-man decided for us.
Because, I guess, he continues to think we're too stupid to do it for ourselves.
I've written before about Chrysler, a company with no new products to sell.
A company forcibly owned by you and me, pissing away $2.6 mil to buy a Super Bowl ad to showcase cars that the O-man his own self has said nobody wants to buy.
(You can read my thoughts on that here: http://oldtimersays.blogspot.com/2010/01/since-you-own-car-company.html)
As if that wasn't bad enough, the O-man decided to double down and spend your money for another spot... one that is even more stupid!
Since the O-man and his administation apparently don't think a deficit of billions for decades is sufficient, they decided to pony up another 2.6 million of your dollars to advertise......
The CENSUS?
That once a decade federal count of all of us.
The one that up to now has consisted of filling out some forms and mailing them back, or talking to a census taker ... something even the most challenged of us should be able to do.
Hell, they even print the forms in multiple languages just so's they can count the illegals... or illiterates... or the just plain ill.
Hey... O-man, Queen Nancy, and whiney Harry... it's a simple set of questions.
It's federal law that we have to provide at least some of the information.
And you are in control of when the forms show up in the mailbox or the census taker shows up at the door.
It ain't that damned hard to figger out, even for us stupid voters!
So, 'splain to me why in God's name you need to advertise the census to us, especially on the flippin' Super Bowl?????
O-man, you're supposed to be the most smarted president ever born.
But I gotta wonder... how many uninsured would that $2.5 mil cover for a year?
How many homeless would it shelter for a year?
Maybe you could have done something worthwhile with it.
The average annual income for full time working males in the US is about $40,000, so you could have used it to put about 63 people to work full time.
And then they could have put some money back into the economy.
Instead, you chose to piss it away in just 30 seconds on a Super Bowl ad.
A Super Bowl ad that was the lowest rated ad in the whole show.
With that kind of judgement, you probably picked the Colts to win!
Oh.... wait.... you did.
“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.” ---- Jim Rohn
“Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.” ---- Louis D. Brandeis
