The Proper Way to Complete Your Census Form

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[DBCJR]

My mother remembers when they said that our Social Security Number would NEVER be used as an identification. Every 10 years they want to know more about YOU. This video coaches us in how to respond to that.

[buck61]

Wow !!!!! Glad I haven’t mailed mine in, now I know how to fill it out.

THANKS for the info. !!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

[Kakaze]

I answered 2 and stuffed it back in the mail box.

[Pikachu_Dad]

I put down “Anglo-Saxon”.

White/Black is NOT a race.

[JLLH]

We did the same.

[Logic n' Reason]

For the "race" question, I put my X in "other", then wrote this:

"100 meter; the 400 if I train hard enough."

I wonder what they'll do with that?

[IYAS9YAS]

I put down “Anglo-Saxon”.

I thought about "European Mutt" but then figured that "American" was better.

[matginzac]

Me 2 - and they really do have all the info they need from tax returns - oh, that’s right, 45% of the people don’t PAY taxes...never mind....

[matginzac]

Just to add to conversation, I just put down the number of residents and sent it in...all the info they need - under the Constitution - oh, wait, we just make the rules up as we go along...never mind...

[matginzac]

Ditto - like minds...cheers...

[ctdonath2]

It is a reasonable Constitutional requirement that a headcount be made. JUST a headcount.

[dforest]

We got another letter in the mail yesterday telling us they had not received our form.

The form says we have until April 1st to mail it back.

So why are they wasting money?

[The Comedian]

I put down “Anglo-Saxon”.

White/Black is NOT a race.

Neither is "Anglo-Saxon". It's an ethnicity.

Race is "Human".

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Ro_Thunder]

1. The actual number of people living at the address printed on the form, excluding untaxed Native Americans;
2. Age of each person in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2.
3. Sex of each person, in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2.

I did include my cell phone. For race, I added ‘homo sapiens sapiens’.

[Ro_Thunder]

1. The actual number of people living at the address printed on the form, excluding untaxed Native Americans;
2. Age of each person in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2.
3. Sex of each person, in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2.

[Dead Corpse]

Slavic-Germanic-Scandinavian-American wasn’t a choice...

[DBCJR]

“We got another letter in the mail yesterday telling us they had not received our form.

The form says we have until April 1st to mail it back.

So why are they wasting money?”

Stimulus.

Democrats are for more government. More government means more bureaucratic inefficiency. Democratic code words for “bureaucratic inefficiency” are stimulus, universal health care (government option), job creation, etc. The Census is required to have the data we need to manage that “bureaucratic inefficency”. “Manage” is the Democratic code word for control, enslave, etc.

Aren’t you feeling stimulated?

[wolfcreek]

It could say cracker, whitey, beaner or whatever...I’m still not telling them.

[95 Bravo]

I haven’t filled mine out yet. My response may be required by law, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it will be responses of THEIR choosing. I’m seriously considering writing something EXTREMELY rude on the form in red Magic Marker & sending it back.
The Obama regime can go to Hell!
Thoughts, anyone?

[21twelve]

I have been contemplating how to fill out the form and what the rules are. I found the following:

http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_cens.html

The current penalty is $100 for failure to fill out the census forms.

The authority of the Congress to conduct the census in whatever way it wishes, and thus to require that the forms be filled out is found in the Constitution itself, which notes:

[The Census] shall be made ... in such Manner as [Congress] shall by Law direct.

The Congress is also authorized to ask various questions in the census aside from the basic headcount by virtue of this clause and by virtue of the Necessary and Proper Clause.

Advice to leave the form blank or to fail to fill it in may actually bring more of the government into your life than you want — as noted above, unfiled and incomplete forms will be followed-up upon by actual census workers, either in person or by telephone.

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End of excerpt. Earlier on it talked about the history of the Census and the laws made. For the first census, the names and ages of the people living in the house were recorded - that’s what I think I might do.

Still pondering it. (One other poster on another thread talked about “pick your battles”. Heck, a google search of my name would probably bring up most of the census form information anyway. Or they can look at my tax records. But, that’s not the point.

[livius]

Thanks! Very perceptive remarks, especially “pick your battles.”

Since they already have this stuff nailed down with GPS (the envelopes are encoded not only with your street address, but with its coordinates) and I have lived here for several years, I’m sure they already know this stuff. This is aside from the fact that I’ve been posting on FR since the 2000 elections, so I’m sure they know everything there is to know about me by now!

I don’t like it on principle. I think it’s excessively intrusive and actually a little threatening. But you’re right, there are other, bigger battles coming up.