Posted on 07/04/2009 8:13:41 PM PDT by Enough_Deceit
I have heard a great deal about the Census Addendum for 2010. I thought that all we were required to provide was the number of inhabitants in the household for representation purposes. I was watching Glenn Beck recently and he was discussing this with a conservative female politician from Minnesota, I believe.
I understand that they want to know how far you travel to work, when you leave, when you come home, how much you make, do have guns, etc. etc.
I guess that if one does not cooperate, there could be a fine involved. It was stated in the program that if they can't get a hold of you, they try calling or ask your neighbors nosy questions about you. I think that they said that some sort of arm of ACORN was involved in collecting the data.
The woman politician stated that we are promised that we can't be hurt by the info we provide on the addendum, but this is what they told the Japanese-Americans prior to their capture and placement in camps during WWII.
That was Michelle Bachman.
There have been a half-dozen posts about this recently, interviews with Rep. Bachman, reviews of the questions on the census forms, etc. Seek and ye shall find. There are 269,000 google hits on the subject of Bachman and the census.
According to Wikipedia, no one has ever been fined for not doing the longer form census, now called the American Community Census.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Community_Survey
Here is a page with more info and the current survey: http://www.census.gov/acs/www/SBasics/SQuest/SQuest1.htm
I won't confess to what I did with mine last year and I might be fined for it. :-) And in 2010 I will be responding with the number of people who live in my house.
Let me correct that. No one has ever been charged with a crime for not doing so.
Last census we got asked extra questions but only provided age and sex of people in our household. Didn’t get any trouble from the census taker or anyone else.
Next will be the phone calls for a month. After that some (I've heard a third, but it probably depends on their budget or minimum required response rate) get personal visits from the Census Bureau for a month.
btt
“Didn’t get any trouble from the census taker or anyone else.”
I’ve heard stories, some here, about how a census worker will just fill in your blanks for you rather than confront you. Now think ACORN and how they handle voter registrations.
I received a call from the census bureau today. Sunday July 5th. This is the second call since I only filled in the first page of the 28 page form. I was not home at the time of either call and have one recorded on my answering machine.
According to this article I read tonight there is no long form for 2010. There is a survey that is 28 pages.
“The 2010 census will use only the short form. The long form has been replaced by the Census Bureau’s ongoing American Community Survey.” By JOHN S. BAKER AND ELLIOTT STONECIPHER
I haven’t seen anything in the constitution about filling out surveys. Now I’m sorry I filled out the first page and returned the form.
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