Posted on 05/28/2009 9:32:29 PM PDT by ReformationFan
The federal government is forcing 3 million Americans to disclose sensitive, personal information about finances, health and lifestyle in a 14-page survey – including questions about availability of household flush toilets and difficulty with undressing and bathing.
The 2009 American Community Survey, an annual supplement to the decennial Census, asks about residents' personal relationships and whether a home has hot and cold running water, a flush toilet, bathing facilities, appliances and phone services. It also asks how many rooms are in a home and what vehicles are used at each household.
The new questionnaire asks respondents what they pay for electricity, gas, water and sewer every month and whether residents receive food stamps.
Question 16 asks, "About how much do you think this house and lot, apartment, or mobile home would sell for if it were for sale?"
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
So, if you are two people living in a large house with four bedrooms and three baths then maybe that will be “too many”, more than your fair share or making too big a carbon footprint...so, maybe it is your duty to let others who are “less fortunate, through no fault of their own” live under your roof (rent free) sort of like in Dr. Zhivago. How else would a “loving” comrade be expected to act?
Send the rottweiler out to answer.
Works for me.
DITTO.
I may be wrong, someone correct me if I am, but I remember back in the 2000 census their was a story to the effect that although they always threaten that you can be fined for not answering or giving untrue answers, the fact is that not one person has every actually been fined for refusing the census or answering falsely.
I’m surprised the first question isn’t, “Do you own any guns and if so, are they loaded?” I’m certain they would think twice coming to a door that answered “YES”.
From WND. Not surprising.
What will people do if some ACORN types knock at their doors and ask what’s for dinner?
{I’m cracking up at anticipated answeres to that rhetorical question}
“About how much do you think this house and lot, apartment, or mobile home would sell for if it were for sale?”
They’re only entitled to know how many people live in oyur house. I didn’t answer any of the rest of teh questions last time (except race — for which I wrote “human”) and don’t intend to answer them this time.
I lie like he77 on census forms....I’m often a hispanic, high school dropout, union worker, making $300,000.
Wait that’s not a lie....That’s a normal firefighter wage in San Francisco.
But the good news is if you have bizarre sexual orientations toward census workers then you are protected!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260304/posts
Congress Passes Bill Protecting Bizarre Sexual Orientations
Put the most outrageous answers you can think of on it and send it back.
LOL, all they get from me is the basic demographics - - number of people in the household, their age, and their sex. On every other question I lie.
My ddad used to do that with his company’s Affirmative Action forms. He’d make it up. My favorite was the year he reported to the government that they were employing one Berber tribesman.
“I’d fill it out just like I use to with those nonsense drug surveys back in high school...
Home Value: $5,000,000
Income: $1,000,000 # of toilets: None (1 outhouse) # phones: 30 Do I get food stamps: Yes
You get the picture...”
You sound like the type who would tear off the mattress tag that says DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW.
; )
LOL! Every time one of my kids asks for specifics about our family (maternal and paternal on both mine and my husband’s side) I tell them we have a whole lot of fruitloops but that my parents, their maternal grandparents were normal, their parents are normal and that’s all that matters, lol.
I got the expanded form in 2000. It had all the threatening language about filling it out or else. I blew my stack and immediately used it to light my fireplace. Someone came around and somehow got information from my neighbors. I gave them hell for intruding on my privacy, especially my commie neighbor. I would have played mute, foreign language jibberish, crazy (stating 1 million toilets and cars) before telling them anything more than how many people live here. I will foil communist neighbors this time somehow.
My mother and grandfather always said that the reason questions regarding how many bedrooms, bathrooms, etc. were asked was so that the government would know how many people they could send you to take care of, free of charge, of course. It is looking increasingly like they were right.
Got it in one.
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