Updated post with a picture as proof.

OK, so today at lunch I go to the yearly fish dinner put on by the Ottawa River Coalition. The fish is always good. The thing that was different this year were the census workers sitting at three long tables in the back of the room. In front of them, the tables were full of pens, pencils, travel mugs, hats, pennants and tee-shirts, everything branded with the 2010 logo and such. It's bad enough that our tax dollars are paying to have these people sitting there GIVING...yes I said GIVING this stuff away. At first I thought well, the stimulus money is at least keeping SOMEONE employed. HA, of the three items I actually saw and could read the tags....the travel mug was made in the USA...the tee-shirt was made in Nicaragua and the hats were made in Taiwan.......I don't get it.



It would appear that the hat at least is a product of Taiwan that was assembled in China and as for the Nissin on the cap tag...I think they are from Japan....Our stimulus $$$ hard at work......