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funny. one of my leftard co-workers was complaining about being called for additional info from the census folks.

he said it was like being telmarketed by the government.

I told him it was the change he voted for.

1) Don't know if your co-worker had sent a form back or not, but a certain percentage of people that are interviewed by Census workers are later called by supervisors of the workers; the purpose of this is to make sure the census workers are in fact interviewing people and not making up responses (called "curbstoning" yes, it has happened, it's rare, and because of the phone checks anyone doing it will be caught fairly quickly and fired.)

This is the reason why, if you're interviewed in person, Census workers are instructed to make every effort to get a phone number. Which, of course, annoys people, and then annoys them more when they are called.

Then the same people annoyed by that will be the same people claiming Census workers run around making up data all the time, when it's the phone # and call that is the only way to prevent Census workers from making up data.

2) The only thing sillier than the paranoia that the Census is crewed entirely by ACORN members is the mind-bogglingly ill-informed idea that all evil and annoying procedures and aspects of the 2010 Census were personally put in place by Obama in the last year and a half.

Basic procedures haven't changed all that much since 2000 or 1990, as has been pointed out ad nauseum by a lot of posters.

Planning for a Decennial Census essentially begins the year after the previous Census. When things ARE changed those changes most likely were decided on about 6-8 years before the next Decennial.

I hate to horribly disappoint you, but, for example, the decision to take GPS coordinates of every housing unit, and buy the hardware to do so, was in the early George W. Bush Administration; they were already testing the hardware in 2004.

It did NOT happen as a result of a secret 12-hour Cabinet meeting Obama held on January 21, 2009 where as his first act in office, Obama laid out in detail the diabolical procedures that he had written himself and wanted implemented in the 2010 Census.