Cause they’ve got to have anything that possibly ‘could’ be a residence, even if for the homeless, on file—so Acorn can ship residents there for a count.
Joseph Stalin said “He who votes decides nothing; he who counts the votes decides everything.”
How many people there are determines nothing; the people who do the count decide everything.
“If you think redistricting is always partisan and political which it is... it’s going to be on steroids this time.” – Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who will control the 2010 Census
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2464383/posts
Then there are the obtrusive telephone follow-up calls to allegedly make certain that even more useless information is collected!
Was watching NASCAR yesterday and saw a Census 2010 ad on a car. Don’t know what that cost but does the census really need to be sponsoring a NASCAR car?
As a former Highway Contract US Mail carrier, I can tell you for a fact that the USPS does have computer files listing every address in the USA. These files also contain how many live at each address and who they are. The Census agency could consist of only 2 or 3 people. The Census agency need only colate the USPS info.
Census Follies Part I
This happened to me last Fri.
Found a census bag hanging from my door this afternoon. I opened it (short form...10 Q’s) and read the instructions. Before I started to answer the questions, I noticed it was for the wrong address. I called the 866 number and after many go-arounds with the automated system I finally got a representative.....at least I think it was a person, but the voice sounded artificial and there were long gaps in the conversation. He told me to mail it back with “Wrong Address” on the envelope and that a census taker would be by to question me. How that census taker would know what address to come to, I never asked. I told him (it?) that I was willing to answer the questions, but that I was not interested in having visitors. He (it?) then gave me a number to call for my regional office, 1-800-492-1495. I called this number and reached a re-direct for a different number, 1-702-589-9300, and that a call to this number would cost me about $4.00. I called back to the 866 number. After another go around got a ‘representative’. After more back and forth with this one, I finally said, “Even though I’m not happy with some of the questions on this, I was willing to comply. But now, after all this idiocy, you people can do whatever the hell you damned well please” and hung up.
[A little background is in order here. I live in a rural county that still uses RR (xx) Box (zzz) for addresses. We have been in the process (for at least the last four years) of getting street numbers for 911 purposes. Last summer a guy came by with a GPS and asked what my address was. I told him. I thought it was for the county mapping as they’ve been by several times for this, but later found out it was for the census. This tells me that even though they have the GPS coordinates for my place, they STILL got it wrong]
Anyway, I took a walk about half a mile up my road and gave the census bag to the neighbor that should have received it in the first place. Though there was a bag on the house next to his, he had recieved nothing. When I explained that it had been left at my place in error he replied, “Census?!?! Pi$$ on ‘em!” and tore it up. LOL!!!
So here I sit. Waiting for the dreaded knock on the door from some flunky from the government. Of course, if the person that got my form in error fills it out and sends it back without checking the address, things could get interesting.
Census Follies Part II
Later that same day...
Just went to my buddy’s house across the road. As I’m walking up the driveway, in comes a car. It’s the census taker. Told her my tale of woe and offered to do what had to be done then and there. She couldn’t accommodate me because....(ready for this?)....she only handles one side of the road!!!!
Our tax dollars at work!
I got a letter about two weeks before my Census form arrived, telling me that I would soon be getting my census form. Silly, really.
fake houses mean fake voters.