Posted on 07/30/2005 2:00:35 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
Article. I. Section. 2. Clause 3:
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.
On the envelope:
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Economics and Statistics Administration
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU
Jeffersonville, IN 47132-0001
OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Penalty for Private Use $300
ACS-46(2003) (1-2004)
The American Community Survey
Form Enclosed
YOUR RESPONSE IS REQUIRED BY LAW
Dear Resident:
I recently sent a letter to your household about the American Community Survey. Enclosed is a questionnaire and mail it back as soon as possible in the postage-paid envelope.
This survey collects critical up-to-date information used to meet the needs of communities across the United States. For example, the results from this survey are used to decide where new schools, hospitals and fire stations are needed. This information also helps communities plan for the kinds of emergency situations that might affect you and your neighbors, such as floods and other natural disasters.
The U.S. Census Bureau chose your address, not you personally, as part of a randomly selected sample. You are required by U.S. law to respond to this survey. The Census Bureau is required by U.S. law to keep your answers confidential. The enclosed brochure answers frequently asked questions about the survey.
If you need help filling out the questionnaire, please use the enclosed guide or call our toll-free number (1-800-354-7271).
Thank you,
Sincerely,
Charles Louis Kincannon
Director, U.S. Census Bureau
Enclosures.
Frequently asked questions:
What is the American Community Survey?
Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau conducts a census. During Census 2000, the population of the United States was counted, and additional information was collected to describe the characteristics of the Nation’s population and housing.
The next census in 2010 will count the population, while the American Community Survey collects the information about population and housing characteristics throughout the decade. Based on the American Community Survey, the Census Bureau can provide data about our rapidly changing country more often than every 10 years.
Why don’t you use the information I provided on my Census 2000 questionnaire?
We need your response even if you completed a Census 2000 questionnaire, because the characteristics of your household may have changed since Census 2000. As we move further away from 2000, information provided in Census 2000 becomes outdated.
How do I benefit by answering the American Community Survey?
The American Community Survey provides up-to-date information for the Nation, states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and communities. By responding to the American community Survey questionnaire, you are helping your community to establish goals, identify problems and solutions, and measure the performance of programs.
Communities need data about the well-being of children, families, and the elderly to provide services to them. The data also are used to decide where to locate new highways, schools, hospitals, and community centers; to show a large corporation that a town has the workforce the company needs, and in many other ways.
Do I have to answer the questions on the American Community Survey?
Yes, your response to this survey is required by law (Title 13, United States Code, Sections 141 and 193). Title 13, as changed by Title 18, imposes a penalty for not responding. The survey is approved by the Office of Management and Budget. We estimate this survey will take about 38 minutes to complete.
How will the Census Bureau use the information that I provide?
The Census Bureau can us the information you provide to statistical purposes only and cannot publish or release information that would identify you and your household. Your information will be used in combination with information from other households to produce data for your community. Similar data will be produced for communities across the United States.
We may combine your answers with information that you gave to other agencies to enhance the statistical uses of these data. This information will be given the same protections as your survey information. Based on the information that you provide, you may be asked to participate in other Census Bureau surveys that are voluntary.
Will the Census Bureau keep my information confidential?
Yes. All of the information the Census Bureau collects from this survey about you and your household is confidential by law (Tot;e 13, United States Code, Section 9). By law, every Census Bureau employee-including the Director as well as every field representative-has taken an oath and is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both if he or she discloses ANY information that could identify you or your household.
Where can I find more information about the American Community Survey or get assistance?
You may visit our Web site www.census.gov/acs/www, or call 1-800-354-7271 if you need assistance or more information.
This is a 12 page booklet describing how to fill out the form. It is similar to a tax preparation booklet.
My guess is, the gov, backed by liberals, don't want to mess up the last 'frontier' (besides the ocean floors, that's a different issue), or the newest frontier, until they can figure out a way to make money. That's it with the gov. It's all about generating income. As everyone says, follow the money.
What was telling by her haughty attitude, was that she was very accustomed to getting her way. She was nothing but an adult version of a school-yard bully. Guess that's why she had a long career in government "service".
They get flustered by facts. LOL! I can't wait until one graces our door. Check my page, scroll down a little, you'll see our alarm system...
One question is how the Prudhoe Bay area was allowed to be developed at all. There was a four year delay by the native claims gambit, but the project eventually went though. We [the general FR population] know the story of ANWR, to a degree, but we don't know the story of North Slope natural gas. We know nothing of the prohibition on nuclear power plants, nor of the limits to timber and fish. As far as getting a massive influx of settlers, well, Alaska isn't that friendly a place to set up camp. It is remote, cold, and it takes an amount of Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett in one to stick it out. Can't live by hunting. There is game and fish, but sufficient for only a few. Farming for subsistence is barely possible. Truck farming is severely limited. Climate again. This is not the Mississippi delta.
You guys have it all wrong...if you want on the gravy train, you need to answer to get the federal hand-outs--personally, I just became a disabled gay black Muslim woman on public assistance the moved here from Mexico to have a baby in an American Hospital that has been repeatedly subject to sexual harassment by 32 year old white guys at my former place of work, who cannot now get a job because of massive corporate downsizing and whose ancesters were slaves thrown over the side of the ships leaving trails in the Atlantic that the sharks still follow looking for food...(do I get the money yet?)
That's exactly right. The business of gov't is business. Where Alaska business conflicts with Eastern business, Alaska loses every time. Alaska has coal for centuries. Timber going to waste. Even enough water to flood Nevada. It's not happening.
Well, I'm a Wisconsin girl, IIRC, they imported us and some Minnesotans up there to settle because the climate was similar. It's not the same, but similar. In winter, the sun rises about 7:30, it gets dark here by 4 pm. Not quite the same, the cold is similar, I know you have more severe climate, but we've had our share of -20° weather without windchill. That's a joke too. Windchill.... LOL! It's fun to watch the weather babes and news readers assigned to Milwaukee, working their way up the corporate ladder, listening to them tell us how bad it is. No ****, like we don't know it already. Anyway, I love hearing what's going on there.
Data phishing scam's are everywhere these days......
We have some former Minnesotans up here. Couldn't take the heat of the summers down south any longer. Fifty or eighty years ago the Feds even offered free farmsteads north of Anchorage to those of north europe ancestry if they would come and farm some. They came, but the effort has kind of faded. Economics, I guess, although the land is okay for dairy and some crops like barley and potatoes.
The growing season is about over. The sun is sinking over the southern horizon. The leaves are changing and the little forest animals are digging in. Might be an early and harsh winter the next 9 months, and the mosquitos are attacking like this is their last stand. Must be nearly August.
Did you close the cover before striking? If not that makes you a two time offender!
Is your picture in the post office yet?
I'll defend this nation with the very last drop of blood in my veins. But this government? Let it defend itself. It has violated in nearly every way the very document that brought it into existance.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."
- Mark Twain
We'll be getting that in a month or so, usually the end of August is when we notice the changes coming. I've seen some trees turing already, there's always a few that do that this early, but we're only at the 46° or so. Watch the animals and wildlife, they can predict it better than any weatherman. One of our dogs was a great indicator of weather patterns.
Oh, if you ever call the ACLU to help, make sure you don't tell them you are a conservative.
I am afraid that is how we got to where we are, years and years of no resistence.
Absolutely. And unfortunately.
Although in one sense you may be correct. All of this kind of crap the feds do is basically a scam.
I fear my poor country will never get back to it's true form of grace and freedom.
There is so much to be changed I just don't know what to do.
Considering the fact that I don't have a physical address (I don't live near a road) and even the local addressing authority hasn't been able to come up with one, I doubt the census flunkee is going to do any better.
To help, maybe I won't fix the rotten boards on the 150' long swinging bridge they'll need to cross to get here. The thirty foot drop to the creek is, how should I say it .... inspiring?
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