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I just got this GIANT 28 page form from the Government "American Community Survey" - (Vanity)
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Posted on 09/16/2013 10:44:26 AM PDT by I still care

It says it is REQUIRED by law - but there is no way I am doing this. It's 28 pages of invasive, nanny state interfering that would shock our founding fathers.

Most of the questions have to do with my health or my insurance.

It wants info on each person, and then "What is your health insurance? Do you have disabilities? What is your job? What is your income? How much money did you make? Were you self employed? Really invasive questions - a nightmare - It's awful! Even a liberal would freak out!


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: census; governmenttyranny; paranoia
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To: I still care

Same answer for all those questions: “Ask the NSA, I’m sure they know the answers!”


81 posted on 09/16/2013 1:44:43 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: I still care

I got one a few months ago and ignored it. I got threatening notes everyday so I called my congressman’s office and told them it wasn’t a census year, I wasn’t filling out a government form providing very personal information. I wanted them to leave me alone. I never got another note or visit.

Just like anything, if enough people complain, they will perhaps do something about it.


82 posted on 09/16/2013 1:46:00 PM PDT by mom.mom
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To: I still care

Completely destroy the document. If they want the information bad enough to send someone around to hassle you, pretend to be an imbecile. DO NOT let them in the door, saying that your mommy says you are not supposed to talk to strangers. (Which sounds impressive if you are in your 40’s.)

“What is your social security number?”

“I don’t know. What’s a social security number?”

“How many people live here?”

“What’s a peeple?”


83 posted on 09/16/2013 2:08:09 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: Cementjungle

“shady insurance sales scams with the advent of Obamacare”

http://www.startribune.com/local/223776421.html

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/health-care/confusion-over-obamacare-helps-scammers


84 posted on 09/16/2013 2:12:14 PM PDT by nascarnation (Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
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To: WayneS

Here’s the form, direct from the fedgov website:

http://www.census.gov/acs/www/about_the_survey/explore_the_form/


85 posted on 09/16/2013 2:15:25 PM PDT by nascarnation (Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

http://www.census.gov/acs/www/about_the_survey/explore_the_form/


86 posted on 09/16/2013 2:16:07 PM PDT by nascarnation (Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

“I got one back after the census. When I didn’t send it in they called repeatedly and threatened me with “fines”.”

I refused to fill out the rudimentary form beyond the items specifically mandated by the Constitution and sent it back. They sent a woman who appeared to be a temporary employee out to see me and I told her that the Census already had everything that I was legally obligated to give. She didn’t argue, just got back in her car and left.


87 posted on 09/16/2013 2:25:25 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: I still care

If I ever receive one of these so-called American Community Surveys, I will definitely NOT throw it away. I won’t fill it out and I won’t send it in, but I would keep the 28-page form in case the goober-ment escalates the harassment.

A conservative group or attorney would probably want to see the forms, and the news media, etc. Just have it filed away if you have to challenge the intrusive SOBs at a future date and need the documentation.


88 posted on 09/16/2013 2:31:46 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be a chain of convenience stores.)
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To: Sloth

I wish I’d thought of that!!!


89 posted on 09/16/2013 2:36:03 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
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To: I still care; jimrob

It sure does seem like
An awful lot of FReepers
Got the long survey...

Way back in 2010, nobody suspected that the IRS was executing a political hit on the Tea Party.

Back in 2010, nobody knew that the NSA was intercepting everybody’s metadata and preparing to record all Internet traffic.

Back in 2010, if you said the Census Bureau was targeting members of conservative organizations in order to accumulate data that could be used for political purposes, people would have called you paranoid.

In 2013, it seems plausible as Hell...

So, how about it, JimRob? Is there a way you could figure out if a disproportionate number of FReepers got this survey? I know I did.

People are mad that the IRS has been politicized. But if we were to generate data demonstrating that the Constitutional office of the Census Bureau has been coopted, citizen anger would be raised to a whole new level.


90 posted on 09/16/2013 2:39:19 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
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To: Haiku Guy

Well, I suppose you can post a thread and ask them.


91 posted on 09/16/2013 2:43:17 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: I still care

Phyllis Schlafly wrote a column against this in May 2012.
George Will wrote a contrarian column supporting it in July this year.

I cannot provide links using IPAD here, but the columns are there.

I received one of these abominations two years ago.


92 posted on 09/16/2013 3:03:10 PM PDT by Radix ("..Democrats are holding a meeting today to decide whether to overturn the results of the election.")
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To: ExTexasRedhead

That’s why we have a 2nd Ammendment....


93 posted on 09/16/2013 3:06:02 PM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: I still care

I received one of these surveys years back. Somehow it was misplaced. Or maybe one of the dogs ate it I don’t recall. Anyway I received some home visits from census workers. I didn’t have time to answer questions that day so asked them to come back. In the meantime I picked up a short-form census at either the library or post office. I filled out the required information: Number of people living in home, names and ages. I popped it in the mail.

Another visit from the census taker. I told them I mailed it in so no need to re-do it and screw up their results. The census worker claimed they didn’t receive the form. I was appalled that it was lost in the mail. Never heard from them again.

A lot can happen to paperwork thrown on top of the “unread mail” pile. Some people keep their unread mail in a brown paper grocery bag. I also used to keep paper and cardboard that needed to be taken to the burn barrel in a brown paper bag. It would be easy to mistake the two.

I wouldn’t worry about it until the census workers come armed. At that point we will have more to worry about.


94 posted on 09/16/2013 3:50:46 PM PDT by conservativegranny
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To: I still care
The government sent me one of their surveys three years in a row. Never filled one out. Never answered their phone calls. I have an answering machine.

Never give the government any information. They will use it against us.

95 posted on 09/16/2013 4:28:31 PM PDT by metalurgist ( Want your country back? It'll take guns and rope. Marxists won't give up peaceably.)
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To: I still care
Use a large black blunt tipped marker and black out every answer space. Stamp each page with a large REDACTED in red. Send back with a cover memo saying recipient should have a Purple Ultra seventh level security clearance, eyes only, destroy today's burn bag.

That should make them wonder a bit...

Regards,
GtG

96 posted on 09/16/2013 5:19:55 PM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: I still care

..last census worker I spoke to could hardly speak English, I asked him if he was properly vetted...he said “huh” “wat”..
I said until you are, your not getting anything.......he left
...got the phone call and then told them I don’t give out info over the phone...it stopped.


97 posted on 09/17/2013 4:05:20 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: metalurgist

Death Panels is where they will use it against you.


98 posted on 09/17/2013 9:31:06 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: I still care
From wikianswers:

The ACS is not an infrigment [sic] on your privacy it is all Data processed to bring Funding to you [sic] communities.

It isn't, huh? That is an opinion.....

99 posted on 09/23/2013 1:45:42 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: mom.mom

Wrote to Ed Royce... Got the standard political weasel non response response. Guess he goes in the RINO column for me!


100 posted on 11/26/2013 5:36:39 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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