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Lies, Dammed Lies and the US Census ?!?!
Washington Times/Yidwithlid ^ | 2/24/09 | Yidwithlid

Posted on 02/23/2009 9:51:27 PM PST by Shellybenoit

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.) (The previous sentence in parentheses was modified by the 14th Amendment, section 2.) The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each )State shall have at Least one Representative....

With those words our founding fathers created the US Census. The number that creates congressional districts, doles out state entitlement programs, and other federal programs. It creates the statistics on lifestyle and income that the government (and many businesses) run on. For the over 220 years our constitutional government has existed, the only part of our government that has not been corrupted by politics is the US Census. That Might all change this time:

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2010census; emanuel; obama

1 posted on 02/23/2009 9:51:27 PM PST by Shellybenoit
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Blog fishing for hits.


2 posted on 02/23/2009 9:54:07 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (This Ain't No Party....This Ain't No Disco..)
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To: Shellybenoit

The same baseball bat that I chased the last one off with needs the cobwebs exercised for the new one....

Trespass in Texas... meet the bat, maybe a shovel (hope it doesn’t come to that)

(I’m just a failed haiku poet)

TT


3 posted on 02/23/2009 10:06:48 PM PST by TexasTransplant (NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
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To: Shellybenoit
But more importantly...

How did the number of Representatives become fixed at 435?

4 posted on 02/23/2009 10:10:34 PM PST by smokingfrog ( Dear Mr. Obama - Please make it rain candy! P.S. I like jelly beans.)
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To: Shellybenoit

Obama administration embarks on politicizing the Census.

http://www.thedailychange.com/obama-embarks-on-politicizing-the-census/


5 posted on 02/23/2009 10:23:54 PM PST by TheDailyChange (Politics,Conservatism,Liberalism)
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