National Survey of Children's Health - U.S. Census Bureau 'free' $5 bill [vanity]

FR | 8/10/2022 | self

[logi_cal869]

I was watching John Kennedy grill a bureaucrat about the billions in budget increase he'd requested and Kennedy asks him about the $5 bill that the Dept. of Commerce included in the National Survey of Children's Health.

I received mine in June but never opened it, intending to mock it here as a waste of public resources. Frankly, it almost got shredded.

I finally opened it just prior to starting this post: $5 as depicted below.

[logi_cal869]

I was appalled enough at the waste of money on the survey itself (we have NO CHILDREN); the $5 is icing on the proverbial cake (I didn't know anything about it until watching the video here.

So, just curious:

How many shredded $5 (like I almost did)?

[logi_cal869]

This was the thread where I saw the video, fwiw.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4084704/posts

[the OlLine Rebel]

What? Are you kidding me?

If we ever got those we probably just threw it away!

[logi_cal869]

Nope. Of course, the back of the form letter was in Spanish.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

When I did Arbitron radio surveys many decades ago we use to send some people a "small gift" for every survey they asked for.

That small gift was about $5 in cash.

There was a slightly higher response from the people who got the cash then from those who did not but it was not really enough to make much of a difference.

What it did cause is a very deep loathing for the company because while they were sending out crisp dollar bills to people in the hope of getting them to spend a minute a day for a week to fill out a form they were paying us about $4.35 an hour and if you did not get enough people to agree to take the survey in that hour you were sent home meaning your earning was now zero.