**vanity** American Community Survey - Do I have to fill this out?

self | 11/1/12 | self

[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?

[stroll]

If you get the farm version claim all sorts of cash crops on the back 40 million acres. lol

You could claim to have a field full of the nation's largest cash crop, but then you'd have a whole new bunch of big-government pests getting in your face.

[stroll]

disclose how many toilets you have

I rounded up a bunch of empty kitty-litter buckets in case the storm last weekend took out the water pump and I had to use them as impromptu privies. It never came to that, but they buckets are still in the house and could still be used (and therefore counted) as "toilets" if necessary.

[cableguymn]

I got that darn thing like 5 years in a row. I had moved 4 times in those years. I tossed it and when they came to the door I said go away. They went to the next farm down the road to pester them about me and who lived there and where told to eff off there as well.

Nothing happened to me.

I highly doubt anything would happen to anyone if they told them to bug off.

[goron]

'Why the hell would local cops play along? They have zero jurisdiction to enforce silly federal laws. Were they bored? Are the feds supplementing their income?'


Apparently the gubment worker called the police to act as an escort while the legal threat was verbalized. The local police then told the gubment worker to leave once the trespassing command was verbalized. I guess the gubment worker thought the police escorts (two of them) would make a more intimidating 'jack booted thug' impression on the non-complying citizen. Instead, the gubment worker was escorted down the walkway off the private property.

Liberals just can't wrap their brains around the fact that we the citizens have a constitutional right to privacy. The liberals must also be completely baffled at the phrase, 'we the people'. How dare these citizens question authority!