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**vanity** American Community Survey - Do I have to fill this out?
self | 11/1/12 | self

Posted on 11/01/2012 9:02:00 PM PDT by FollowingTheGrace

Today I received "The American Community Survey" from the Commerce Dept. It is 28pp of very intrusive questions, from the time I usually leave for work (to the minute) to who I work for and how much I make to how much I pay for utilities, and much, much more. The questions are repeated for everyone who lives in my household and include name, address, and phone numbers.

It says I am required by law to return this.

Anyone here familiar with this? Any advice?


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2012; commercedept; donttreadonme; freedom; government; govtabuse; tyranny
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To: FollowingTheGrace

Did it come via certified mail? If not they have no idea if you received it or not. Just saying.


21 posted on 11/01/2012 9:18:12 PM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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To: FollowingTheGrace

I got it too. I threw it out. This week, I got another one. I’m throwing it out as well. There is no way I’m answering any of these questions. They can come to the door and ring ‘til they’re heart’s content. I won’t be here for 3 months. To HELL with these people!


22 posted on 11/01/2012 9:18:30 PM PDT by battletank
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To: acapesket

Oh! You are so right, the locals did come back for the census... I forgot !
I posted my drooling chocolate lab on the front doorstep with a welcome mat that says “go AWAY!”
Kids at halloween loved it last night ! Thanks for reminding me!
I am chuckling now at the recollection!


23 posted on 11/01/2012 9:22:06 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: FollowingTheGrace

Hell NO!!!!!


24 posted on 11/01/2012 9:22:08 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: FollowingTheGrace

I signed it and sent it back blank. They sent another and I did the same thing.
A woman showed up at my door and said I had to answer the questions.
I answered every question with the response “it’s none of your business” She looked at me, and I told her she wanted an answer, and I gave her one to each question asked. Never heard back. That was 4 months ago. Commerce Dept IIRC.


25 posted on 11/01/2012 9:22:08 PM PDT by Joshua
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To: FollowingTheGrace

Return it. Nothing says your hand must write truthful info.


26 posted on 11/01/2012 9:24:18 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (So long and thanks for all the fish.)
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To: FollowingTheGrace

I’ve received them and have thrown them out. Nothing has ever happened - no calls, no knock on the door, nothing.


27 posted on 11/01/2012 9:25:48 PM PDT by peggybac (Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer)
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To: Ellendra

I remember getting the farm version.

I live smack in the middle of DFW, lol.

I was sorely tempted to make things up, maybe I could have gotten ag subsidies, lol. I just checked a few “No”s and mailed it back, mostly empty.


28 posted on 11/01/2012 9:28:56 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: FollowingTheGrace

It is past time the sheeple stopped complyin’ and cooperatin’.

Next year we get to had to our IRS tax forms an extra form revealing our medical history as it relates to our compliance with unconstitutional Obamacare.

Be thinking about that. All this other stuff is experimentation for how willing to stay sheepel until we are reduced to train boarding material ala Germany.


29 posted on 11/01/2012 9:29:00 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: FollowingTheGrace

Hey, wasn’t it lost in the mail and you never got it?


30 posted on 11/01/2012 9:29:35 PM PDT by bgill (Evil doers are in every corner of our government. Have we passed the point of no return?)
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To: FollowingTheGrace

can’t give anyone any advice about anything....

at this house, all junk mail (meaning anything we did not request or desire) gets Round Filed immediately (and we can never seem to remember receiving any particular piece of crap, given all crap looks pretty much the same...)

they can resend whatever, and if it is something we did not request or desire, it will promptly meet the same fate. There’s PLENTY of room in the Round File, and the city picks it up every week so that makes for even MORE room....

we’re paying for the city to haul this crap away, we may as well make use of that wonderful and very convenient public service.

just saying


31 posted on 11/01/2012 9:31:36 PM PDT by faithhopecharity
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To: FollowingTheGrace

Declaration To Census Takers
I hereby affirm that the provisions of Title 13 ``requiring’’ me to disclose my race, personal financial data, birth-date, or any other personal or private information to the Bureau of the Census, an agency of the United States government, constitutes an unreasonable, unwarranted search of my person, house, papers, and/or effects; and a governmental invasion of the sanctity of my home and the privacies of life. As such, these provisions violate the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution, and are thus wholly void and I am not bound to obey them.

I have completed only those sections of the Census form pertaining to the Constitutionally-mandated actual enumeration, as follows:
1. The actual number of people living at the address printed on the form, excluding untaxed Native Americans.
2. Age of each person in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2.
3. Sex of each person, in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2.
I have thus fulfilled my obligation to the attainment of the actual enumeration of the populace of the United States


32 posted on 11/01/2012 9:31:57 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
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To: FollowingTheGrace
Do what I did the last time I received one of those invasive information request. I took a black Sharpie and drew a big black mark where every answer was on the form that pertained to the information I was to fill out. I then included a printed note along with the form when I sent it in. The included note basically said the following “All personal and sensitive information on the response form has been redacted to protect my personal information. I used as an example the numerous forms that have been released by the US Federal Government reuested by the FOIA. Thank you and have a plesant day”

For some odd reason I have never gotten another form nor has anyone called about it.

33 posted on 11/01/2012 9:33:29 PM PDT by SledgeCS (Good Men Died. Obama Lied. Impeach the LYING COWARD!!!)
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To: FollowingTheGrace
HELL NO.

SCREW THEM.

34 posted on 11/01/2012 9:42:30 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Census finally came to my house.

Dog got in their car with them


35 posted on 11/01/2012 9:45:52 PM PDT by digger48
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Census finally came to my house.

Dog got in their car with them


36 posted on 11/01/2012 9:46:09 PM PDT by digger48
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To: FredZarguna

By who? The census department may have bullets but they have no enforcement division and if I remember right the census can’t give your personal info to the justus department because they are bound by some law not to.


37 posted on 11/01/2012 9:46:09 PM PDT by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: cableguymn
"No controlling legal authority," which, if you read my post is what Commerce pretty much admits to.

... However ...

If you refuse to answer direct questions posed by a Census employee, or interfere with their ability to collect data they can make a civil or criminal referral to DOJ, depending on which is appropriate.

38 posted on 11/01/2012 9:50:24 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Is the US Episcopate serious? We'll see.)
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To: FollowingTheGrace

Mine got lost in the mail, never had a chance to fill it out and return it. That is, that would be my story if I had gotten one, but I didn’t... Really...


39 posted on 11/01/2012 9:54:35 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Joshua

I like it. They try that excrement with me, my answer to every question will be “42” after all, that’s the answer to the universe, right?


40 posted on 11/01/2012 10:01:23 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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