Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Census: You filling it out? And did you get the long form and the short form?

A friend just called with "your census should be in your mail box today...have fun!" She was being very sarcastic, of course. Besides the short form census she teased me about today, which she'd just received herself, this same friend also got a lengthy census questionnaire some weeks back of something like 300 questions which she will not be responding to although it says you can go to jail for abstaining.
That questionnaire had questions like "Do you own your home?" "Do you have a line of credit on your home?" My friend's had bad identity theft so there is no way she's giving all this information about lines of credit, etc. On that form were also questions like "What time do your children leave home?" and "When was your home built?" "How many times have you been married and when were you last divorced?" WHY? They want to know when you shut your lights off and how much water you use and I'm thinking maybe they could just get the neighborhood water usage directly from the Dept of Water and Power and leave our private usage to us?
I got a letter last week saying I'd receive a 2010 Census form in the mail in one week. Did you get that? It says "Without a complete, accurate census, your community may not receive its fair share." It says "fair share" is defined as "Government funds for highways, schools, health facilities, and many other programs you and your neighbors need." Don't tell US what we NEED, folks. And DEFINE "other programs"....I'm TIRED of giving money to ACORN, for example. "Fair share"....sounds so grabby ...like "I WANT MY FAIR SHARE!", doesn't it? Instead, how about having written "in order that we better know the needs of your community?" Wouldn't that have been a little more dignified?

Two Questions: Did any of you get that very long form? And, regarding the short form, ARE YOU GOING TO FILL IT OUT COMPLETELY? I thought that, in the past, you only had to answer how many lived there?

Why do they want to know if our home's paid for, or occupied "without payment of rent?" (like a shack-up, or what? :-) They want our PHONE NUMBER~!! Why? Isn't this supposed to be anonymous?? Oh. Wait, I'm literally reading mine as I type....it's not anonymous, they want our name....why? Isn't that NEW? When my friend called the census people and asked why she had to give her age and birth date, they said "Well, some people get confused and don't know how old they are." Is that just Obama voters? (cheap shot but who could refuse? :-) Who doesn't know his AGE? That's on this short form census you all should be getting, too!

If you're Black, you'll be so confused.......It says "What is Person 1's race?" White, Black, African Am., or Negro (are they KIDDING?, is this so nobody's feelings get hurt...isn't that all the same?), American Indian or Alaska Native (oh, they want your TRIBE name if you're either of the last two choices!!)

Please let me know what you're going to do. My friend said she's heard thousands aren't filling it out...I'd like to know what you think of that.............makes me nervous, but the government wanting this much information makes me even MORE nervous.

By the way, I'm REALLY ticked off. There isn't any ARMENIAN listed under Race! Ya, ya...I know we're WHITE, but geeeez.....it's not like we don't want OUR "FAIR SHARE", you know :-) Heck, if you're 'Other Pacific Islander', they give you a chance to fill in 'Fijian, Tongan, and so on'....you'd think we could all get that specific, right? To get our FAIR SHARE?

So, you going to fill it out? (by the way...regarding the image to the right...WHAT's in WHOSE HANDS? I'm getting nervous)

I just found the following info from THIS article: According to US CODE, "Whoever over 18 years of age that refuses or willfully neglects to answer any of the questions on the schedule submitted to him in connection with the census shall be fined not more than $5,000."

CHECK THIS OUT, from HERE: In 2000, another District Court agreed and found that it there is no constitutional limit on collecting additional data, when necessary for governance. That court also said responses to census questions are not a violation of a citizen's right to privacy or speech. Morales v. Daley, 116 F. Supp. 2d 801, 809 and 816. (S.D. Tex. 2000). These decisions are consistent with the Supreme Court's recent description of the census as the "linchpin of the federal statistical system ... collecting data on the characteristics of individuals, households, and housing units throughout the country." Dept. of Commerce v. U.S. House of Representatives, 525 U.S. 316, 341 (1999).

"For Governance"? Doesn't that make you feel better????
I think all this BS is where they got the word CONcensus :-)

z

55 comments:

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Register your race as "Human."

We're a small, but but growing minority group.

Always On Watch said...

According to US CODE, "Whoever over 18 years of age that refuses or willfully neglects to answer any of the questions on the schedule submitted to him in connection with the census shall be fined not more than $5,000."

Well, I can't afford such a fine, with the medical bills in this household. I'll decide what to do when the time comes.

**sigh**

My census form hasn't yet arrived but should this week.

JINGOIST said...

Here's what they're gettimg from me:

1. Name
2. Age
3. Sex
4. and YES this is my permanent residence

The rest is all bs intended to gather info for the purposes of wealth redistribution. F%$& em! Leave those unanswered, I intend to.

Always On Watch said...

Addendum: The government shouldn't be asking for all that additional info.

WisdomFromTorah said...

How can you expect the government to find you if you don't tell them.

It all good....I think. LOL

&^%#@?*&^$# Did you hear that? That was a protest because Big Brother is in my life to much!

STOP The world I want to get offfffff!

The Merry Widow said...

I'm with AOW, my reaction is just to give the basic info...as intended by the Constitution...but where do I get $5,000 for the bloody fine?

Maybe if enough people refuse to answer the intrusive/busybody questions.

tmw

Chuck said...

Evidently we got the packet, Brenda has it. I don't know which form we got, I'm trying to ignore it.

Ducky's here said...

I know it's a nationality but under "race". I checked Other and wrote in Ukrainian.

Not that we're a big identity group but just the same.

Gramma 2 Many said...

Dang those jails are going to be full.
How many people live in my house: 2
Race: American or Human
All other questions: NA

Brooke said...

I haven't got mine yet, but then my mail hasn't run yet today.

That long form pisses me off! What business is it of theirs to know all of that?

Can I write in "None of your business?"

Or perhaps a N/A would be more diplomatic.

I can't afford such a fine, either.

As far as race? I agree with Human. It isn't incorrect, after all.

Anonymous said...

The law reads as follows:

(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized officer, to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not more than $100.
(b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a) of this section, and under the conditions or circumstances described in such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is false, shall be fined not more than $500.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no person shall be compelled to disclose information relative to his religious beliefs or to membership in a religious body.
____________

A lot of Americans gave far more than $500.00 to preserve our liberty. I'll just pay the fine IF the government can prove I willfully refused to answer the questions.

Sam

Anonymous said...

We got ours, the short form.

I considered using it to start the fire for our weenie roast last night...

I'll give my address, number of residents, and that's it.

Anonymous said...

I also think the government must prove that it is entitled to the information it solicits. The Ninth Amendment states that the "enumeration of certain rights" in the Bill of Rights "shall not be construed to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people."

Yes, the meaning of the Ninth Amendment is somewhat elucive, but Justice Goldberg in his Griswold concurrence interpret the Ninth Amendment as justification for broadly reading the Bill of Rights to protect privacy in ways not specifically provided in the first eight amendments.

I guess that's why we are plagued with lawyers.

Semper Fi

Mustang out

Ducky's here said...

reading the Bill of Rights to protect privacy in ways not specifically provided in the first eight amendments...

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Yeah, that's the same argument that made abortion a matter between a woman and her doctor.
You folk only like the "good" kind of privacy.

Still there is virtually nothing on the short form that isn't a matter of public record. You think your bank doesn't have all this and so much more on you and is sharing it with American corporations and a bunch of swell friendly hackers from Russia.

The right wing is a stitch.

Ducky's here said...

And when Chucklenuts commandeered a complete record of all your phone calls you bobos didn't say a word.

Always wondered about your silence. I think that if you are wetting your beds because of some imagined threat then they can get away with anything.

Brooke said...

Those phone records were only for those calling or receiving calls from countries with known terrorist calls.

Just got my short form. Not only do they want way too much info, but there's a note in it that requires it to be filled out and returned TODAY.

I guess we should all just drop everything.

Ducky's here said...

Those phone records were only for those calling or receiving calls from countries with known terrorist calls.

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WRONG !!!!

Get with it right wingers. Bush can appropriate access to all domestic phone calls but you are b'ing and moaning about some nothing census form.

Stunning.

Brooke said...

Ducky, you had this argument years ago and still didn't get it.

Brooke said...

And why is it that you freak out over Bush supposedly doing it, but now that the Obama administration has told Americans that they should have no expectation of privacy with their cell phones you're silent?

Hell, you're not even mad that the BHO administration has thrown out a lawsuit against wiretapping.

Anonymous said...

The Constitution says the census is for enumeration.

Furthermore there is no mention of a fine on the form at all. If we're not informed of penalties on the form how can they expect people to know a US code?

Since when is Korean, Vietnamese, Pacific Islander, etc. a race?

Ducky, if you are consistent with the thinking of the government, who believe Korean is a race, why not Ukrainian? It seems legit to me.

Trust me Ducky, whoever looks at these things won't know the difference.

Brooke - "None of your business" is an answer isn't it?

How about, "This is Profiling".

How can they ask for it to be returned today, when it clearly states, "How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment,or mobile home, on April 1st, 2010?
This is from the Government, what can you expect?


Ducky said - "And when Chucklenuts commandeered a complete record of all your phone calls you bobos didn't say a word."

Wrong Ducky, that was only used for international electronic tracking through which certain words were the trigger for surveillance. Looking for terrorist activity.

It was Clinton who put into place the Echelon program for domestic wiretapping.

Pris

Brooke said...

Pris, I DID notice that they referred to a future date in the past tense.

Besides, how am I to know if I'll be living in this house, or at all on April 1st?

Another monumental show of incompetence. The damn form isn't even right.

Perhaps I should write something like that on the form.

How do they know that anyone lives at my address at all? The house next door has been empty for over a year.

Or does BHO call up banks that he now owns and ask who has what mortgage on what property?

cube said...

All we received was a letter telling us that the Census form would arrive this week. They have money to burn, I guess.

I'm for sending them as little info as possible.

Ducky's here said...

The Constitution says the census is for enumeration.

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Enumerating what? The questions clearly enumerate.

The concern seems to be about enumerating race, why?

Ducky's here said...

AT&T and Verizon turn over access to ALL their call records and suddenly you trust government to do the right thing.

Fascinating.

Of course they were using the records to investigate the Quakers and we were investigated at the Boston Catholic Worker House but those are two of the "bad" religions so they were probably up to something.

Let's face it, if one of you right wingers starts getting scared, which happens whenever a Muslim or a minority says boo, then you will sell out anyone.

elmers brother said...

I got the short form. I answered two questions...how many people live in your home and will it change after April 1.

That was it.

ON top of that the radio had some Census bureaucrat spouting off about having more power than the Patriot Act to enforce one completing the form. He also said if they had to send a worker to your home it would cost $57 and then said if everyone did that it would cost XXX number of billions of dollars. (can't remember the sum).

Could you get more pathetic than that.

elmers brother said...

oh yeah they're already broke...so I wouldn't count on them sending a someone to haul you off to jail. The $.42 it cost for the stamp busted their budget already.

Anonymous said...

HEALTHCARE!

HEALTHCARE!!

HEALTHCARE!!!

HEALTHCARE!!!!


HELP!

MURDER!

SLAUGHTER the SLAUGHTER METHOD of PASSAGE

WHY AREN'T WE TALKING ABOUT

H-E_A_L_T_H_C_A_R_E?????

Anonymous said...

Just got it on today's mail.

Haven't had a chance to look it over yet.

hope it's not the "long form" you described, because that would require a trip to my lawyer to get an official opinion on what I absolutely MUST answer and what I have the right to leave BLANK.

Lawyers, as you know, are EXPENSIVE.

When it comes to "race," there is only ONE legitimate answer; i.e. HUMAN.

Otherwise many of us would have to put down asinine things like Viking-Roman-Anglo-Celtic-Teutonic-Italian-French-Amerindian-American.

~ FreeThinke

Anonymous said...

Ducky,
I don't like that the banks / credit bureaus know so much about me, either. That doesn't mean I should just roll over and give more to the government.

Call me whatever you like.

"Once you label me, you negate me".
-Kierkegaard

JINGOIST said...

Okay I got mine.
Questions 8 and 9 on the 1st page were about race! And question 3 is also tmi. Those went unanswered.

On subsequent pages 5 and 6 are about race!

Fu*% them!! I refuse to answer them and I hope my friends here will do the same. Now that I got that off my chest I feel a lot better.

Sorry about the language, BIG Brother gets under my skin in ways that are IMPOSSIBLE to describe.

JINGOIST said...

I'm with you Rog! I like your post at 1:28. Even this relatively short form is all about wealth redistribution. First page, 2 out of 10 are about race. Second and third, 2 out of 7 are about race.

They can kiss my posterior! I'm refusing to cooperate with the Community-Organizer-in-Chief.

Anonymous said...

OTOH maybe we should ALL claim we are BLACK. That would guarantee one of two thins: Either we'd get special rights, privileges, benefits and a helluvalotta deference automatically, OR we'd be forced to undergo a government-mandated DNA test.

It would be FUN to screw up their statistic mill, wouldn't?

The forced DNA test could be challenged in court for EONS.

PASSIVE RESISTANCE is the way to go.

~ FreeThinke

Trekkie4Ever said...

I filled it out and yep, I have to admit I was confused with question 5 and 6. My boys are a mixed race so I checked both boxes in both questions. So, I checked Hispanic and Mexican for me? Who knows!

I got the short form.

Anonymous said...

"Enumerating what? The questions clearly enumerate."

Ducky, Article 1. Section 2.
Read it for yourself. It's clear the census was meant to determine how many representatives would be required.

Why do you ask such stupid questions?

Pris

Anonymous said...

I called and asked the woman at the phone number on the form, this question: What relevance does whether I own a home with a mortgage, or own it free and clear, have to do with the census?

Her answer; So the government can judge neighborhood stability or how low income housing can affect it.

Me: What business does the government have in stabilizing neighborhoods, and how is whether I own a home or not an indicator of instability, stability, low income or high income?

Her; "I don't know".

Me; "What if I don't answer it?"

Her; "Someone will come out to your house, or call you".

Me; "I wouldn't answer anyone on the phone in any case, I wouldn't be able to check their ID".

Her; "Yes I understand".

Me; "What if I don't answer the person who comes to my home?"

Her; "I don't know."

That's it. She was very nice, and a bit flummoxed. When I said the phones must be ringing off the hooks, she said she had been reduced to tears at times. People are so upset, or angry.

I just said people don't appreciate this invasion of their privacy, and she said she didn't blame them.

I told her I wouldn't want to reduce her to tears, that she was just doing her job, and thanked her for her time.

As you can see, I found out zilch! Neighborhood stability indeed. Give me a break!

Pris

JINGOIST said...

Good for you Leticia! My daughter is mixed race too, and she asked me about it this afternoon when we got home. G-d bless her, she asked,

"Daddy, since we're American anyways it doesn't matter what race we are right? So where is the American box?"

I swear. Sometimes our kids are better than we deserve! I was SO proud of that question. I told her that we should mark the "human" box. No such entry.

Rog, passive resistance will do for now, as long as it's wiiiiide spread.

JINGOIST said...

Good for you Pris! I left that one unanswered too. What %$#@*&%$@ difference does it make whether you own or rent the home you're living in? It's just more fishing for info and I left it blank!

Do we think alike or what? They need to get a LOT of this sor of feedback.

JINGOIST said...

Z, thanks for the kind words. I can only hope that He helps you get through some of the grieving process. We will include you in our prayers tonight. A hole in the soul cannot be filled with dirt or feathers...Time is the only cure, and only a partial one at that.

About the refusal to answer the race and mortgage questions. I'm serious. I asked my better half about it two hours ago and she said "to hell with them!"

We're on the same wavelength.

It may cost us $5000 in the final analysis, and I plan on making the stink of it that will reach the heavens! I certainly can't hurt business where I live.

Z said...

Shut your eyes everybody, I"m about to blow:

I DO NOT WANT LOW INCOME HOUSING IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. PARTICULARLY, I DON'T WANT IT WHEN I AM PAYING FOR IT AS WELL AS MY HIGH MORTGAGE.

AND I RESENT THE DAMNED RADIO AD FOR THE CENSUS I JUST HEARD OF SOME DOPE BEMOANING THE FACT THAT THERE AREN'T ENOUGH BUSES RUNNING DOWN HIS STREET FOR ALL THOSE PEOPLE....YUP..HE'S TALKING VERY FOLKSY AND THINKS HE'D BETTER SEND THAT CENSUS IN BECAUSE THEN THEY'LL HAVE ENOUGH BUSES (for all the illegals in LA, which comprise approximately 97.4% of those RIDING buses in LA).

MEANWHILE THE IDIOTS IN LA CITY COUNCIL HAVE OKAYED A PROJECT 4 BLOCKS FROM ME WHICH IS GOING TO BRING 22,000 MORE CARS TO OUR AREA EVERY SINGLE DAY...
THOSE BUSES, HOWEVER MANY NEW ONES WE GET, WILL BE GRIDLOCKED JUST LIKE MY CAR AND I WILL BE, HUH? WHAT A GREAT STUPID IDEA, YOU IDIOT LEFTWINGERS WHOSE LEFTWING COUNCILMAN WHO GOT THIS PROJECT PASSED SAID HE'D ONLY APPROVE IT IF A JEWISH OLD AGED HOME WAS INCLUDED....
HOW DID THAT HELP THE TRAFFIC GRIDLOCK OUR COMMUNITY'S BEEN SCREAMING AT HIM ABOUT FOR THE LAST YEAR???

@(#$&*@$&*(@$&*(#@*$#


Ya, I'm REAL happy about a LOT of things today.
Plus, did you know grief can strike you five months after a death, just when you thought you were evening out? If you haven't done this, don't reply, please...you can't know.

THAT is how crappy a mood I'm in today!

BUT, other than that...it was a good day...a day so long that the friend who attended two meetings and a lunch with me finally got in my car at the end of all the busy-ness and said "man, is this STILL the same day?"

:-) Thank you for your attention. heh!

Pris, thanks for that account of your conversation....I don't know WHAT the heck to do on that damned form.

Jingo...you raised QUITE a girl there, but I'm SO not surprised, knowing YOU.

I have this creepy feeling you're all saying you're not going to answer this or that question but you are and I won't because you gave me courage and I'll be the one paying $$$ for NOT having answered. Ya KNOW? HHAAA!!!

Law and Order Teacher said...

Z,
They already have my race, age, dob, address on my driver's license. Race isn't being answered. Not too bad. The long form will be shredded if I get it. The short form is in the mail.

Z said...

thanks for the prayers, Jingo>>VERY appreciated. It's really all that's got me through, I think.....

Sorry I deleted my comment and reposted it because I'd left a pivotal word out...so your comment is in front of mine and you address something in it..sorry to confuse anybody.

I really appreciate ALL your comments here, everybody...
You're all SUCH an amazingly great group of people. xxx

Anonymous said...

The Census has ALWAYS been intrusive.

Twenty years ago I owned home with a {illegal) efficiency apartment. I inherited it from the previous owner.

The unit had been a fifth bedroom in the house, but an outside entrance had been built, and the inside access had been sealed off.

It was a handy little place for helping to offset mortgage payments, etc. But during that census year -- 20 years ago -- the place just happened to be untenanted, and I decided to keep it that way, until "the storm" had passed.

Well, wouldn't you know? The census taker was a woman, and she had the GALL to walk around to the back of my house, and then knock on the door and asked me how much income I derived from my rental unit.

I told her NONE with perfect accuracy, and told her the way I used the home I'd bought, paid for and paid taxes on was NO ONE'S business but MINE, as long as I wasn't running a drug operation or storing dead bodies for personal amusement.

I said, "This is MY house, and far as I'm concerned, YOU are TRESPASSING on PRIVATE PROPERTY. I live here all by myself, and that's ALL I'm going to tell you."

She left, and wasn't heard from again.

There's nothing worse than a little who's been given a bit of authority. It gives them inflated ideas of their own importance, and often leads to abusive behavior.

The NEXT thing you know, they'll be wanting to come in and inspect our drawers and closets and count our flatware.

CONFISCATION "for the public good" won't be far behind, if we lay down and play dead for these bastards.

Did I ever tell you before that I HATE BUSYBODIES?

~ FreeThinke

Anonymous said...

I got the Long form and the short form yesterday.

The long form is in my bathroom... on the spooler. Thanks for saving me from buying an extra roll or two this week.

Anonymous said...

Jingo, do they need a lot of feedback? From what the woman told me, they're getting it.

Think the administration cares? Hell no!


Z, I felt a little sorry for the woman on the phone. She sounded kind've miserable. Can you imagine listening to all those people complaining, yelling, and pleading their cases? Day after day?

She was no help, but what can we expect from a know-nothing government employee? She had to read me the answer she did give me.

Pris

Anonymous said...

Well, my main concern is how to STOP this VICIOUS Congress from steamrolling this Healthcare Powergrab. The census can wait.

I listened to Hugh Hewitt who promised access to key congress demons on his site.

HAH!

I was unable to connect to even ONE email address.

"Congress" does NOT WANT to hear from ANYONE.

Who the HELL is Obama, anyway, -- the freakin' Pied Piper of Hamelin ?

&@#$^&#@&^%^!@*&^@!^&!@#%#!@%^!&#~!!!!

~ FreeThinke

Z said...

Ft..what do you mean "unable to connect"? I'm hoping that means they're deluged and can't receive MORE?

The problem is...the leftwingers DO NOT CARE. THEY know what's better for us and we just have to take our medicine!

I heard some Republicans on FOX and they had SUCH good ideas...they want to discard this awful atrocious bill and start with business co-ops (an idea I've always loved) and real valid tort reform...and CLEANING up THE FRAUD! How can we run a whole medical system by a government which can't even DO THAT???

But, no..the lefties know. And they tell us we're nasty? It's astonishing.

Anonymous said...

I'm starting to pray the the U.S. Capitol and Casablanca suffer a similar fate to that of the WTC -- while BOTH houses are in session of course.

Kidding?

I'm not at all sure.

Those people have taught me to HATE, and I resent that very much. The enemy within is not worthy of Christian love, believe me. Only righteous WRATH.

The REPUBLIC is being DESTROYED.

I'm SO thankful I never had children. That generation will live in a GULAG.

~ FreeThinke

Z said...

I'm afraid you're right, FT...it's only got this bad this last year, really.......this shoving us into submission.. getting into untenable debt to countries which hate us, and appeasing and apologizing, and ....etc etc.

And it's our fault.
Go figure.

But, fault isn't important anymore....we need to save this country, but we have a White House of people who hate America and think they know better; getting their vengeance on the beautiful America of individual's rights and everything else...things they've been taught to hate at HARVARD.............and we'll pay, baby, we are going to PAY for supposed RACISM, SEXISM, CAPITALISM, ..etc etc. mark my words.

Anonymous said...

Hi, Z,

By "unable to connect, I mean that the emails of each member of the house of representatives is CLOSED to everyone, EXCEPT their DIRECT constituents.

You can send them SNAIL MAIL, and you can TRY to CALL them (Good Luck! I've spent HOURS trying to do just that, and have been able to reach less than ten out of each 30 -- and most of those were ANSWERING MACHINES!!!).

SO, access is effectively SEALED OFF.

I don't know what we can do. I honestly feel as though I've been tied to the tracks and can hear the engine hooting not far down the line.

Poor Founding Fathers! Their sacrifice was in vain after all.

I guess it's because we let too many UKRAINIANS into the country.

(;-x

~ FreeThinke

lovelyprism said...

I have not received anything regarding the census.

On another matter, grief can hit you anytime anywhere. I'm dealing with more than one kind presently and I cry out of the clear blue sky or at the oddest times, triggered by the oddest things. I'm sorry for your loss.
Charlene

Z said...

Charlene, thanks so much.
Even today at the grocery store, the checkout girl said "I can't believe it when I see you here alone....and I keep expecting your husband to come in on his own, too...I really miss him!"
Ya.
So, the tears come on the way to the car........it's suddenly like it was brand new.
But, this is all part of it, I guess..

Z said...

...and I'm so sorry you, too, are grieving. xxx

Faith said...

I got my form this morning and sent it back this afternoon, the short form obviously. I didn't feel there were any hills worth dying on in this one although I resent having to note my race, but I've always resented that on all the government junk I get.

The IRS already knows way too much about me as it is including the financial information I'd rather not give the census if they'd asked.

Please, isn't there some way we can just start all over in this country, separating ourselves from the madness, wiping the slate clean and refusing to participate in the revisionist destruction? Reinvigorate the Constitution as it was originally intended, etc. Someone back at FPM had a plan for settling some states with the purpose of seceding, said some were already acting on it. What happened to that plan? Maybe it's going to have to get SO bad we're forced to some such drastic solution to the problem. It's probably not quite bad enough to set a fire under us yet.

frightened said...

did not fill out forms
got two requests for phone interviews left on door
weeks later someone i did not know came three times knocking,ringing bell,was tought not to talk to strangers
7pm next night same thing
8pm left apt. man followed my girlfriend and i for miles, finally pull into police dept. guess who Census taker Creepy! and thanx bemish i told him was human!

Michael said...

The law reads as follows: (a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized officer, to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not more than $100. (b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a) of this section, and under the conditions or circumstances described in such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is false, shall be fined not more than $500. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no person shall be compelled to disclose information relative to his religious beliefs or to membership in a religious body. ____________ A lot of Americans gave far more than $500.00 to preserve our liberty. I'll just pay the fine IF the government can prove I willfully refused to answer the questions. Sam