Census Questionaire Exceeds Consitutional Authority

I received the Census Bereau's normal form, filled out what they were entitled under the Constitution to know and sent it back. A few weeks later, the form being referenced in this report arrived.

After perusing the questions being asked, I decided that this form fell under the heading of TMIFTGTH or TGDNTKAOT.

Too Much Information For The Government To Have OR The Government Doesn't Need To Know Any Of This.

I then fired up the shredder and disposed of the document in an environmentally safe manner and waited for the knock on the door. I'm still waiting.

See? I Told You So!

To all those "conservatives" that objected to filling out the Census because "It's Unconstitutional!" or "Obama just wants to spy on me!" etc......

I TOLD YOU THAT IF YOU DID NOT FILL IN THE CENSUS, CONSERVATIVES GET UNDER-COUNTED. IF YOU FILL IT IN, WE FREAKIN' WIN!

Since enough conservatives DID GET OFF THEIR BUTT AND SEND IT IN, Red states are getting more influence.

I couldn't believe the number of idiots that told me that Obama wanted to just spy on us because the census asked "how many live in the house?"

Of course, that multi-page survey is different thing. I wouldn't fill that out if you were paying me. And, of course, there's the GIGO method of filling out surveys.

Bob Barr has lost his ever loving, feeble mind

Bob Barr is lying. Bob Barr is trying to get innocent Americans killed. Bob Barr is fomenting violence. Bob Barr is a lying sack of.....

He has a post up at his blog, The Barr Code stating that census workers can enter your apartment without your consent. At least his comments are showing that many knowledgeable people are refuting this idiocy. Please join them and add your voice to tell Mr. Barr what an idiot he is. Thank God that his candidacy for office was a failure.

So, get this straight......

Bob. Barr. Is. Lying. And. An. Idiot.

As a census worker, not only am I not allowed to enter a home or apartment without consent, I am not allowed to enter WITH THE CONSENT OF THE HOME OWNER.

We have been specifically told to DECLINE any invitations to enter a home. PERIOD EFFING STOP.

Don't Worry About the Census; ACS Is the Real Kommisar

The Orwellian American Community Survey
Overreach
BY Daniel Freedman

The American Community Survey wasn't around when Ronald Reagan declared that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." If it was, he'd probably agree that having a government representative knock on your door, try to threaten their way into your home, and demand that you give them very personal information is far more terrifying.

The ACS is an extension of the U.S. Census that all households receive. While the U.S. Census form contains 10 questions and is sent out every 10 years, the ACS form contains 48 questions and is sent to 250,000 households each month on a rolling basis.

The ACS itself is a lesson in government overreach. Article 1 of the Constitution allows for a census every 10 years so that seating in Congress is proportional to state populations. Lawmakers gave the Commerce Department the power to ask more questions, and it took the power and ran, and ran, with it -- ending up asking questions unrelated to districting. (ACS answers, according to its website, are to help "manage or evaluate federal and state government programs" -- not to help with congressional seating.)

What's especially problematic about the ACS are the answers it demands from citizens. The least threatening of them are just strange -- such as asking whether your home has a flush toilet and whether "there is a business (such as a store or barber shop) or a medical practice" on your property. Then there are the financial questions. The ACS asks everything from your sources of income (in dollar amounts) to how much you spend on gas, electricity, and water. The IRS just asks what you earn; the Commerce Department wants to know how you spend your money as well.

Even more invasive are the personal questions. The questionnaire asks how many people live with you and their relationship to you, along with their names, ages, gender, and race. Most creepy of all are the questions about your daily routine. The ACS wants to know where you work, what time you leave for work, how you get to work, how long it takes you to get to work, and how many people travel with you.

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A few weeks after sending in the form, a representative of the ACS left a note at my apartment asking me to contact her. When I did, she said she'd like to come to my apartment to go through the questions. I replied that I'd already filled out the form, and if they'd lost it, it was their duty to find it. I also didn't want a stranger entering my home and asking personal questions (and ones that I'd already answered), I told her.

The ACS representative ignored my comments and later turned up twice unannounced at my apartment, demanding entry, and warning me of the fines I would face if I didn't cooperate. I cited the Fourth Amendment ("The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches..."), and reiterated what I told her on the phone. After that, on March 14, I sent a letter of complaint to her regional director.

My saga ended on March 23 when an ACS program supervisor investigated my case and discovered my form had in fact been received on February 8, only it was sitting on the side and never processed. She thanked me for writing in to complain -- she said it was my letter that prompted the search for my form -- and said she would investigate the harassment I received.

My experience exposes that a basic problem with the government having the kind of detailed information the ACS asks is not only from some rogue bureaucrat abusing it, but from an incompetent one losing or misplacing it. U.S. Census Bureau workers have even in the past accidentally published people's personal information on public websites.

But the bigger problem with the ACS is the underlying government mentality it exposes. From the Commerce Department thinking it can demand any personal information it wants, to a government representative thinking she can threaten her way into a private home to get those answers -- what today's government and its workers have forgotten is that government is accountable to the people, not the reverse. It is "government of the people, by the people, for the people," in Abraham Lincoln's immortal words. But in today's America, the servants are increasingly acting like the masters.

The Census-What Not To Do

Ted Kennedy should not be allowed to own a handgun

according to Rahm Emmanuel:




According to this fascist, if you are on a government watch list, you should not have any rights.

And the lefties call CONSERVATIVES fascist?

I wonder if ol' Teddy can get a gun?

And now, Obama has put the control of the Census in this fascist bastard's hands.....

Obama is using the the fact that HIS OWN CHOICE FOR COMMERCE is a Republican to steal more power. If the Secretary nominee is unacceptable to the masses that complained, then pick another, but keep the Census where it is supposed to be, as per the Constitution.
Oh wait, Obama wouldn't know anything about that....

Can you say Permanent vote stealing? I wonder how many ACORN volunteers he's going to use as counters. If dead people can vote, I'm sure that they can be counted.....