Just completed my census

3-16-10 | edcoil

[bfree]

I can afford the $100. Screw them. Let them waste dollars sending out some fool to see me. I’ve paid taxes for over 45 years, time for ME to waste some of it, not just the politicans wasting it.

[Star Traveler]

Hey, you didn’t see me say it was a problem... they haven’t found me yet, and they don’t know where my hideout is, either.

So, as long as someone is fine with the fine or the time... I would say, “Go for it!” ... :-)

[Paul Kib]

I received BOTH the long and the short forms. I have no idea why. Are they planning to count us twice?

Race: Adam’s
Number of Occupants: 35, males, ages 55-65
Occupation: stay-at-home nudists

*** Double-dog-dare you to come and help us fill out the form!!

[bfree]

LOL!! That’s great!

[Ouderkirk]

Seven questions, name, age, race, total number of people living here and then you have to list the names of those living there, relationship and race.

no signature required.

1) Not constitutionally required (See DMV)

2) Not Constitutionally required. (See DMV)

3) Irrelevent but answer other = AMERICAN

4) Answered

5-7 Not Constitutionally required. See DMV, IRS, County Clerk, Superintendent of schools and or Socialist Stupidity Administration)

Shame on you for answering all of them.

[MissP-38]

How can you mail it right back when it asks how many people on April 1st? Maybe someone will move in in the meantime!
Question 2 is if you are too stupid to know in question 1 how many there were. Doesn’t the verb WERE mean it is to be filled out after that date?

[Yaelle]

What I did was to put the sex of each person and the age, and the fact that they lived here and nowhere else. Those were the fair questions. I just did it today.

No names, races, ownership of home, anything.

[Clemenza]

Received it today and completed it as well. The racial question annoyed me, amongst other reasons that there was no category for my girlfriend (I checked "other" and wrote in "multiracial Brazil").

BTW: I would like to know why people from the Middle East are classified as "white," while we have a separate category for "Hispanic" (the US is the ONLY country on earth that has the ridiculous Hispanic category).

[VRWCTexan]

Last time they called when I did not answer all the questions - and they admitted to me that I had the “right” to state that I “Preferred not to answer”

So this time I just wrote “Prefer not to answer” on the offending questions...

[Yaelle]

(One curious exception to that: The liberal Ninth Circuit reversed a conviction when it was shown that the defendant might have been targeted due to his publicly held “dissident” view that the Census is an unconstitutional invasion of privacy.)

Does this count as my dissident view?

I HEREBY DECLARE THAT I CONSIDER THE CENSUS TO BE AN UNCONSTITIONAL INVASION OF MY PRIVACY!

Am I good now? I seriously don't want to waste more money by paying any fines.

[Conservative9]

I am not lying either. I also DO have native blood- four generations of Americans born right here. So, I am grandfathered in.

[Star Traveler]

Just make sure they can’t find you, and you should be okay... :-)

[Yaelle]

Thank you very much for this. We might need it. Saving it to tell the census worker.

[Star Traveler]

Well, according to the census, now... a bunch of black people just moved into your house... LOL ...

[Yaelle]

Um, of course they can find us. They have our address, and they surely GPSed our door...

[Star Traveler]

Well, as long as they have the house occupied by either blacks or hispanics, they probably have no reason to come back again... :-)

[Yaelle]

Well, according to the census, now... a bunch of black people just moved into your house... LOL ...

You mean they could easily pick our race for us because I left it blank. I think I will re-open the envelope and cross out the questions I didn't like, rather than leave them blank?

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

You mean they could easily pick our race for us because I left it blank. I think I will re-open the envelope and cross out the questions I didn't like, rather than leave them blank?

Well, I was teasing a bit there... because I would hope that the Census people would be honorable people and would put down the truth of the matter.

BUT, having said that -- if a Census person cannot get the information directly from you, they can put down what they know and see. Thus, they (themselves) can fill in information that you don't directly give to them.

Just sayin' ... doncha know... :-)

[Cindy]

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/how/questions.php

“Questions You May Have
Have a question about the census form?”

[lfrancis]

I felt the same way in regards to the genealogy aspect. I can't remember the exact census years, but I do remember the census including value of real estate owned and other assets along with occupation, one of these was before 1870 because the number of slaves was listed. Race was also listed.