Many of you probably watched the Super Bowl and saw the silly commercial about the upcoming census and wondered why the Census Bureau spent $2.5 million of our taxpayer money on it.  But that's not the worst of it.  As the StarTribune reports, "The Census Bureau wasted millions of dollars in preparation for its 2010 population count, including thousands of temporary employees who picked up $300 checks without performing work and others who overbilled for travel costs. Federal investigators caution the excessive charges could multiply once the $15 billion headcount begins in earnest next month unless the agency imposes tighter spending controls, according to excerpts of a forthcoming audit obtained by The Associated Press."  Maybe we should give these temporary employees government run health care too.  I'm sure the government would do better managing health care than they have done with the census, social security, Amtrak etc......