Obama Strikes Again

[Strike For The South]

Has any heard of this?

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/

I got something in the mail yesterday about it. So now you're telling me they have the right to know about my personal information? Including PRIVATRE things about my home? How is this constitutionaly legal? The founding fathers would never stand for this crap.

I heard a rumor (just a rumor so take it with a grain of salt) that they were doing this to make it eaiser to figure out what zip codes were to be more heavily taxed for all of Obamas social enginering.

I weep for my country

[Lemur]

If you fill out your census form, that means the Death Panels can find you. It's true.

[Tellos Athenaios]

The Founding Fathers would never have stood for so many things you yourself identify with. They are irrelevant to the census though.

[drone]

If you fill out your census form, that means the Death Panels can find you. It's true.

This is why I move every 10 years in May.

I love the text descriptions of the questions on the website.

What is your telephone number?
We ask for a phone number in case we need to contact a respondent when a form is returned with incomplete or missing information.

Use the number of an adult chat line.

Please provide information for each person living here. Start with a person here who owns or rents this house, apartment, or mobile home. If the owner or renter lives somewhere else, start with any adult living here. This will be Person 1. What is Person 1's name?
Listing the name of each person in the household helps the respondent to include all members, particularly in large households where a respondent may forget who was counted and who was not. Also, names are needed if additional information about an individual must be obtained to complete the census form. Federal law protects the confidentiality of personal information, including names.

How do you forget who lives in your home? Is this the USA, or Yorkshire?

What is Person 1's race?
Asked since 1790. Race is key to implementing many federal laws and is needed to monitor compliance with the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act. State governments use the data to determine congressional, state and local voting districts. Race data are also used to assess fairness of employment practices, to monitor racial disparities in characteristics such as health and education and to plan and obtain funds for public services.

Asked since 1790, since, well, some people only count for 3/5ths.

[PanzerJaeger]

Doesn't the census still have "negro" as an identifying race? Excellent.

[Gregoshi]

I got my census form last week and mailed it in. Which questions were the ones that had people all bent out of shape? Here I was ready to spill my guts and reveal all my dirty secrets to the government and there wasn't even a "comments" box. Guess I'll have to get on Facebook to do so.

[Major Robert Dump]

They are just like the 2000 census forms for the most part, which people also whined about being too intrusive. Obama must have traveled back in time and made GWB do it for the grand social engineering scheme. Oh, wait, I remember people saying that even though GWB was president that it was Clinton's fault for handing it off to GWB that way. So that means this one is GWBs fault for handing it to Obama this way. Oh wait. I confuse.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Tsk. Any Texan worthy of the title shoots a census worker off his lawn with grandpa's blunderbuss.




For the sake of fun perspective, these things striked me as funny. The first three of which for various reasons are unthinkable here:

- You can fill out the form in dozens of languages, down to Albanian and Navajo.
- Question 9. 'What is your race'.
- Spanish is included in question 8: 'Are you of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin?' I understand the rationale and the complexities of it, but even so from my perspective it simply feels as odd as including Australians in 'Asian-Americans'.
- The category 'White' is simply white. As is 'Black'. 'Asian' is broken down into specidfic nationality.
- I've just learned that a person from Guam is called a Guamanian!!

[Tuuvi]

- Spanish is included in question 8: 'Are you of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin?' I understand the rationale and the complexities of it, but even so from my perspective it simply feels as odd as including Australians in 'Asian-Americans'.

I bet this part confused a lot of people, because all of the hispanic people I know consider hispanic/latino to be their race, but in the census hispanic/latino isn't even considered to be a race.

[Strike For The South]

I bet this part confused a lot of people, because all of the hispanic people I know consider hispanic/latino to be their race, but in the census hispanic/latino isn't even considered to be a race.

This gets confused all the time because in different parts of America it means different things.

In the Southwest you're Mexican
In the Northeast you're Puerto Rican
In Florida you're Cuban
And in Iowa you may as well be black

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Tsk. Any Texan worthy of the title shoots a census worker off his lawn with grandpa's blunderbuss.

Blunderbuss? Way too "puritan." Tennessee rifle, shottie, six-gun....any of these would be more apropos.

For the sake of fun perspective, these things striked me as funny. The first three of which for various reasons are unthinkable here:

- You can fill out the form in dozens of languages, down to Albanian and Navajo.
- Question 9. 'What is your race'.
- Spanish is included in question 8: 'Are you of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin?' I understand the rationale and the complexities of it, but even so from my perspective it simply feels as odd as including Australians in 'Asian-Americans'.
- The category 'White' is simply white. As is 'Black'. 'Asian' is broken down into specidfic nationality.
- I've just learned that a person from Guam is called a Guamanian!!

Navajo being rather interesting for filling out forms as there was no written language until the 1950s.

We actually have local talk radio guys who blather on about Guamanian girls and how they are "hotties."

[Louis VI the Fat]

We actually have local talk radio guys who blather on about Guamanian girls and how they are "hotties."

I once spend a great night in North Carolina with a Guamanian hottie.

She was hot indeed. In that very elegant, feminine Polynesian kind of way.


[/Kadagar]

Though what I mostly remember is some pesky Chihuahua that roamed around the house thinking himself a mighty coyote and me an easy snack. That, plus my sister, who's friend the Polynesian godess was, explicitly forbidding me making a move.

I curse the bitch for it to this very day.


The Chihuahua that is, not my sister.

[Scienter]

Has any heard of this?

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/

I got something in the mail yesterday about it. So now you're telling me they have the right to know about my personal information? Including PRIVATRE things about my home? How is this constitutionaly legal? The founding fathers would never stand for this crap.

I heard a rumor (just a rumor so take it with a grain of salt) that they were doing this to make it eaiser to figure out what zip codes were to be more heavily taxed for all of Obamas social enginering.

I weep for my country

Since I'm new and don't "know" people, TinCow assures me you're joking. It's sad that with all the crazy I've observed lately re: the health bill, I thought you were actually serious.

But, I'll leave this here in case other people make the same assumption I did (or actually believe that the census is unconstitutional).
Article 1, Section 2 of the US Constitution:
"The actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct." (Emphasis added).

Congress has codified the laws regarding the census in Title 13 of the US Code,.

[Jolt]

Has any heard of this?

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/

I got something in the mail yesterday about it. So now you're telling me they have the right to know about my personal information? Including PRIVATRE things about my home? How is this constitutionaly legal? The founding fathers would never stand for this crap.

I heard a rumor (just a rumor so take it with a grain of salt) that they were doing this to make it eaiser to figure out what zip codes were to be more heavily taxed for all of Obamas social enginering.

I weep for my country

You see SFTS, the government already CAN find everything about you, in the previous administrations just so by wishing it.
Now, since Obama has ran on a "transparency" plataform, now they are being transparent about being able to check your every information. :)

[Subotan]

Regardless, it certainly isn't Reagan's fault.

[drone]

Tsk. Any Texan worthy of the title shoots a census worker off his lawn with grandpa's blunderbuss.

[Major Robert Dump]

I filled out my 2000 census so comically that they sent a census worker to speak to me in person. He called in advance, and I answered the door drunk in my underwear at 2 PM on a Friday. I don't remember all the ridiculous stuff I put in the form, other than in the RACE section I wrote in BRITTISH.

[al Roumi]

Has any heard of this?

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/

I got something in the mail yesterday about it. So now you're telling me they have the right to know about my personal information? Including PRIVATRE things about my home? How is this constitutionaly legal? The founding fathers would never stand for this crap.

I heard a rumor (just a rumor so take it with a grain of salt) that they were doing this to make it eaiser to figure out what zip codes were to be more heavily taxed for all of Obamas social enginering.

I weep for my country

I suggest you reach for your rifle and go kick the imperialist power out of your country -oh no, wait...