I never fill out my census forms except for my name and how many people are living in the house. They already have my address.
The simplest way to f*** up the intrusion is to answer the questions about name and age of each occupant of the residence. With respect to all the other questions, answer no and for income answer $18,122.65 which is the minimum wage. If everyone did this, the Bureau of the Census would only be able to count people for the apportionment of seats in the House of Representative which is all they should be authorized to do.
In your grandma’s case, what are they going to do? Prosecute a 102 year old?
But for the rest of us, from what I’ve read, we’re pretty screwed. Ignore the forms or refuse to answer to an in-person census-taker, and at least some of us will go to jail.
They are going to use it to set new congressional districts. They will also list the GPS coordinates of her front door.
What are they going to do? Put a 102 year old granny in Jail?
Now would that not make front page all over the country and be a nice black mark on the entire census, nanny-statist, bureaucracy? lol
PS: Me, I'm only 66, but still willing to tell them to go ahead, make my day and charge me with whatever.
Fill in the number of people at the residence.
For every other question, write:
“My answer is the Fifth Amendment.”
You will therefore have legally answered each question. It will not be the answer they were expecting, but it is your honest answer. You aren’t NOT answering the question, and you are not lying.
They send long forms to a % of the population...I have to say seeing the Obama administration is out to off Grandma I would not let them know where I am
For the 2000 census I received the supplemental forms. I wrote rude remarks on the forms with red markers and sent them back.
I had three subsequent personal visits by census workers. The first two I was curt and direct and told them to leave.
The third time I answered my door with a Mossberg 500 shotgun in hand. They quickly left and never bothered me again.
True story.
According the to the Census site the regular census is strictly short form now. But there’s another yearly survey, sent selectively, with the same legal requirements and with many more questions.
I haven’t filled out a census form since 1980 and then blacked out any identifying information on the form and put in only generic demographic answers for my family. Since then I flatly refuse to comply. In 2000 the census taker stalked me - but I successfully avoided her.
The Constitution says “enumerate” - to count ... enumerate does not mean to identify by name or intrusively insist upon revealing very personal information.
If a census worker shows up on my porch - I will run him or her off my property... I have an 880 foot drive way - so this should help keep them away.
I haven’t received any forms in the mail yet.
Since the census in now in the hands of the Obama Administration - I flatly refuse to cooperate.
Tell them to go f*** themselves.
I live in an RV Park and the Census taker was a cutie in a BMW who could not even find the Office so she just put census forms everywhere.
I don’t remember what I did with mine.
TRASH IT
Just tell her to fill in her name and how many live at her home. Place a big red X through the rest of the pages.
The Obama administration has expanded the census data collection to new heights. The information collected is the same information marketing people need to form targeted campaigns...
Which means that this data will be used by the Obama administration in developing their 2012 reelection campaign. It probably won’t use specific information supplied by individuals to target those individuals, but the data can be used to customize the campaign for specific areas and demographics.
This is the kind of information that politicians always wanted to have, but never had the audacity to try and use the census to collect.
Declaration To Make 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, 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. The actual number of males living at the address printed on the form that are over the age of 20.
I have thus fulfilled my obligation to the attainment of the actual enumeration of the populace of the United States.
Any fine or other sanction that is levied by any office or organization stemming from the unconstitutional provisions of Title 13 in connection with my response to this or any other Census-related questioning will be challenged in a court of law.”
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