My Census calls and visits....WILL THEY STOP??

After much contemplation, I finally did fill out the Census Report and sent it in on time.
Fine, I thought that was it. I think I withheld one thing and, frankly, I can't remember what it was, but most of it was sent in.

I just got my fifth call since my Mother's Day weekend's two visits to my home by two separate census workers. I told the first worker who came to my door "they aren't home" (that felt rather good) and, to the other, I said "You know, it's Mother's Day and I have guests, please come back if you have to, but I DID fill it out and send it in. " He said "OH, they must not have SCANNED it...we need you to do it again." grrr

I put off the first four census worker callers with "No, they're not here, please call back", when asked if they could speak to ...ME. Today, I figured, I am tired of the calls, I'll just answer the girl on the phone's questions. When we first started, I said "I think asking my race is wrong..." She very quickly said "Fine! I'll just report that you're not responding.." But, I told her to go on and I answered, and I thought that was that, I'm finally done with this thing.

Almost an hour later, a man called and asked for Mr. Z. He said he was with the census and that someone from the census had spoken to Mr. Z a few days ago. I told him Mr. Z had passed away in October. He was obviously surprised and said he was sorry. I said "You know, I've had two workers come to the door and I've had five callers, when is this going to STOP?" He very angrily said "If you're going to be like that, fine, I'll just report that you're not willing to respond.' I said "Wait a minute! I DID respond, first when I DID fill the form out and sent it in on TIME, and then, not an hour ago, to a woman on the phone....I told her I'd already filled it out and sent it in but she said all she had was my name (then how'd she call me?) so I went ahead and gave her all the answers! WHY are YOU calling me now?"

He then said "OH, my gosh, I'm sorry.....I'm also sorry about your husband and, you know, I don't like how they're running this thing; everyone's TRADING NAMES WITH EVERYBODY ELSE AND DOING THE SAME WORK MORE THAN ONE TIME. I apologize for that, from me and the GOVERNMENT."

You know, I wonder about this....is the census department just giving as many hours of work as possible to people out of work? Andrew Breitbart reported that he's had undercover people working as census employees saying to the officials "I only worked four hours, I thought you promised eight hours of work today" and the bosses have said, more than once, "Just write down eight hours..nobody cares."

Is that what's happening? Can we do no better than this? And is THIS how we'll handle HEALTH CARE BY THE GOVERNMENT? I sent mine in on time and I get all of this hassle, all of these extra hours of people on the phone and coming to my house? Can't they be computerized and, once you've answered, you're ticked off the list? (instead of JUST TICKED OFF?)

What is GOING ON? Do you have any stories like mine??

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