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We’ve highlighted before the amount of waste associated with the Census, including paying workers who did not work and running a $2.5 million Super Bowl ad.  Now it appears that Census Bureau is also paying for 2 million fortune cookies that have messages such as:

                Put down your chopsticks and get involved in Census 2010.

You may wonder where money for fortune cookies is coming from.  After all, it doesn’t seem like something taxpayers should be paying for.  In July, the Census Bureau announced that they received $1 billion in stimulus funds to be used for the 2010 census operations.  With the long list of waste, fraud and abuse associated with the stimulus it is not surprising that taxpayers are now paying for fortune cookies.  As we pointed out before, Sheriff Biden was supposed to police the stimulus, but in the end, “they messed with Joe.”