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Officials worry anger at D.C. is behind low Texas census response
Houston Chronicle ^ | 3-27-2010 | RICHARD S. DUNHAM - MEREDITH SIMONS

Posted on 03/27/2010 8:10:53 AM PDT by deport

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To: Husker24

Ignore them. I don’t answer the door if I look out and see someone I don’t know. After a while they stop showing up.


41 posted on 03/27/2010 8:58:18 AM PDT by SUSSA
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To: HighlyOpinionated
The Census will just send Chicago THUGS to your house if you don’t send back the form.

Who are getting paid $20 an hour.....
42 posted on 03/27/2010 9:04:42 AM PDT by LA Woman3
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To: deport
Well, just my 2 cents worth:

The f'n goobermint now lies to the public repeatedly w/ great frequency w/ increases in both magnitude and scope.

Therefore, whatever numbers they do get to guess with, those in goobermint will slant, color, stretch, hide, skew, ignore, and outright lie to pass ever more socialist, liberty bleeding, freedom killing, higher taxation legislation.

So, for the logically minded, What's the Point of Wasting the Time to fill out a census form?

43 posted on 03/27/2010 9:04:49 AM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: Drango
Sure "we" don't fill out our race.... but all of the protected class will. So, they'll determine the angry white people didn't answer the question "properly" these districts will have money taken from them and re-distributed to the ones so eager to say I'm xxxx-American.

My race? = NASCAR.

Phone number. "I plead the 5th Amendment; You assume I have a phone."

44 posted on 03/27/2010 9:06:49 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: deport
"Texas is counting on the 2010 Census to deliver four new congressional districts, four new Electoral College votes in presidential elections, and millions of dollars in additional federal aid."

Where's this money going to come from? Since Texas is pretty much the only large state that is coming through the Obama Recession in the best condition. These millions are going to come from taxes paid by Texans. So, by not participating in the Census, it'll cut down on the amount of money spent by the Feds, thus reducing the amount of taxes taken from Texans.

Where am I going wrong here?

45 posted on 03/27/2010 9:11:49 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
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To: deport

My 8 year old daughter brought home from school a 4 page, 4 color glossy brochure in English and Spanish nagging me to do the census. I threw it out. I wish I would have saved it so I could post it to FR.


46 posted on 03/27/2010 9:12:00 AM PDT by sportutegrl (VETO PROOF MAJORITY IN 2010)
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To: HighlyOpinionated
Have to agree with "Other" in that why the F' does race matter in counting the total number of people living in one area, the entire couontry???

Seems to me, the goobermint is racists when refusing to be colorblind. They will only get the number living at the address from me.

The friggin' goobermint has all the info on me now.....

Oops, I'm sorry Mr. Census Gubmint Man, dat's right, dares laws that say the SS Administration and the IRS just cannot hand over private data to Gubmint agencies that aren't liable for securing such data.

47 posted on 03/27/2010 9:12:48 AM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: deport

If you don’t send in the head count you are slitting your own throat. Undercount enough and you lose Congressional representation.


48 posted on 03/27/2010 9:14:20 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem)
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To: Husker24
"Are the census forms mailed out in spanish too?"

Yes.
49 posted on 03/27/2010 9:17:19 AM PDT by DRey
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To: eccentric

Me too, I can’t really be sure until then. Who knows who may drop in and hang?

And for another thing, I’ve become so desensitized to race that I just can’t tell one from another. It is all so confusing to me.


50 posted on 03/27/2010 9:17:54 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half of the population is below average)
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To: LA Woman3

Exactly. I figured if I don’t fill the entire thing out I’m saving someone’s job:)

I only put the number of people and our names. That’s it.

They will do what they want with the numbers regardless. This is what happens when you declare war on the people. They stop being so cooperative with you.


51 posted on 03/27/2010 9:21:20 AM PDT by conservativegranny
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To: Paine in the Neck

> Undercount enough and you lose Congressional representation.<

Unfortunately that already happened :(


52 posted on 03/27/2010 9:22:22 AM PDT by conservativegranny
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To: Jabba the Nutt

Where am I going wrong here?


The money is fed allocated money coming from all of us who pay into the system. The 4 congress critters are just a realignment among the states of the 435 representatives.


53 posted on 03/27/2010 9:22:36 AM PDT by deport
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To: lonestar

They have Newton Co. listed as Republican? LOL!!!


Probably based upon 2008 Presidential vote... Didn’t it go GOP?


54 posted on 03/27/2010 9:30:33 AM PDT by deport
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I haven’t got one yet but when I do I might just eat a powdered donut while I fill it out. ;-) just kidding.


55 posted on 03/27/2010 9:36:54 AM PDT by RC51
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To: deport
... and millions of dollars in additional federal aid.

State governments are as bad as individual welfare recipients, when it comes to grubbing for public money. Why should money go from Texas to the US Treasury then turn around and be delivered back to Texas (or any state)? Because there is a chance of getting money that originated in Florida, or Idaho, that's why.

The key to controlling the monster is shutting of the oxygen--money.

56 posted on 03/27/2010 9:40:33 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: deport

Champ Village, MO No. 1 at 80%.

2000 Census

4 households, 1 homeowner, 3 rentals
12 residents

I guess the grew by 20% to 5 households.


57 posted on 03/27/2010 9:45:03 AM PDT by rwa265 (Christ my Cornerstone)
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To: Mrs.Liberty

I’m really pissed off at my husband. He gets home earlier than I do and gets the mail, so he got the census form and filled out nearly ALL the questions except for our phone number and do we own/rent.

I wanted him to put down just the # of people and tell them to f-— off on the rest of them.

Grrrr.
LQ


58 posted on 03/27/2010 9:53:43 AM PDT by LizardQueen (The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.)
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To: deport
Conservative states must get the highest responses. Basic info, how many in house.

The concern is will the Obama and Rhamm Gestapo honestly count the count?

59 posted on 03/27/2010 9:54:31 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Hey Barack Hubris Obama, $10 is all it would take, why spend millions to cover it up?)
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To: Bassfire

I put down ‘’human’’ for race.


60 posted on 03/27/2010 10:08:50 AM PDT by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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