US Census Update

[Fragony]

I can't see any reason why the government would need that information I would ignore it.

[Tribesman]

Well I can see the merit in the objections , but there is another side to the coin .
The government likes information , it uses information for many things , including allocating its spending .
There was a prime example of this just down the road , a nice little town was finally getting a by-pass , thus freeing the town from the constant traffic jam .
Now of course such a development project requires money , (from both the government and EU in this case) , their descisions on allocting the money and designing the by-pass to fit the requirements of the town were based on the ....census ...lots of people in the town hadn't filled in the census , after all why should they give the government all this information eh ?
Them people in the town really moaned like hell when the government allocated the money , planned and started the development ...but it left the town buggered because it only took account of the population (and predicted future expansion) and their transport requirements according to the census .
Turned out the real population was more than 3 times the population according to the census , and just as many were working in towns and cities to the south as to the North (they had only planned for one link to the by-pass since that was all the population merited and put it out of the north of town as most of those on the census worked to the north) .

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I imagine it's mostly so politicians can skew statistics to make their talking points.