The Census has grown beyond it's bounds.

Townhall ^ | March 13 2006 | Phyllis Schlafly

[OrangeDaisy]

I was one of those selected people in 2000. My Mom thought the questions were so personal that I should not answer them. I told her it was the government asking them, and they already knew all the answers -- all they needed to do was query the appropriate database at the appropriate agency.

[Caesar Soze]

it's = it is

its = possessive form of it

[stylin19a]

me too. I only answered how many lived here.
They sent a census worker out to get more info.
I gave her the names and ages and gender
She came back for more info. I said no, I'll pay the fine, who do I make the check out to ?
haven't heard hyde nor hair about it since.

[Jeremydmccann]

oops

[Kay Ludlow]

Yep, American Community Survey has been around awhile. It's like government provided market research - our tax dollars at work.

I got the long form for the census last time, but refused to answer most of the questions when the census taker was on the porch. No one followed up. The Community Survey is well outside the constitutional call for a census. It's just plain government nosiness and profiteering (selling demographic data on the open market).

[Paperdoll]

Okay. Big Brother is just getting too big for his pants. So what should we do about it? Let's pants him! But seriously, this is really scary. Are any attorneys willing to sue the government, if this should turn out to be true?

[Jeremydmccann]

Did it ask if you owned firearms?

[Lancey Howard]

Somebody needs to start a suit and get this nonsense to the Supreme Court post haste.
Let those judges "clarify" what is meant by "enumeration".
Meanwhile, the scumbag government certainly will not get honest answers from me on any such survey. Did you notice that NOWHERE does this article state whether there is a penalty for failure to respond or for responding "inaccurately"?

[Tammy8]

I live in a really rural area and we did not have 911 service for years after the rest of the country. Right before we got the 911 service in our area we got a form in the mail to fill out. The firearm question was on the form. I did not answer it and a lady called me thinking I had accidently left it blank. She told me this was very vital information if LE was ever called to my home. I told her I would not answer that question, and my opinion was that anytime LE answered a call at anyone's home they should respond as if the homeowner were armed and use caution. I also pointed out that criminals were not likely to answer the question honestly if they did answer it so I thought the question had no value. She got huffy, but I never heard from them again.

[Jeremydmccann]

This is government intrusion on a scale that even the Clintonistas could not have dreamed. Someone absolutely needs to do something obout this frightening nonsense.

[FreedomCalls]

http://www.census.gov/acs/www/

[FreedomCalls]

2005 Survey Form (pdf)

http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Downloads/SQuest05.pdf

[stylin19a]

i don't recall any questions about weapons.
It did ask about medical history of people living here. It also asked about how i spend my money among other things.
It was real invasive.

I remember that it asked about race, if you were "some other race", "Print race below".
So that's what I did. I printed R A C E.

I'm guessing more & more people are going to get this census document.

[Jeremydmccann]

That's crazy! Now why would they need to know that? i tell ya, this big government nonsense is frightening. We need to restore the government to it's constitutional size. For that is the only way we shall ever see constitutional governance.

[Clinging Bitterly]

The census is a complete joke. In 2000 we got the short questionnaire but that still asks more than the key question so the only answer they got was how many people lived at the house. The other stuff like ages and races (and some of the choices they gave for answers to that I think were just made up, like the multiple subsets of hispanic and I'm not even sure hispanic is a race to begin with) went unanswered. A pair of census "workers" did come to the door but they only wanted to know about the neighbors. I just said I would only speak for myself (and I was at least more polite than the time the UFO cult came to the door).

[Jeremydmccann]

Thanks

[Wage Slave]

I got the long form in 2000, too. I didn't return it. Someone came to the house and I told them the questions were too intrusive and they should leave my property. They sent another person out, who threatened me with a fine. I got wiser and told them I lost the form and if they would just leave another on the doorstep, I would send it in. I never did and they never contacted me again. By the way, they told me they already had the names of those living in our home, supplied without my knowledge by the local postmaster (extremely rural area).

[ASOC]

My (now deceased) father in law used to get long, messy forms from Uncle Sam to fill out about his farm.

I asked if he filled them out - his reply was a classic - Anytime I get something from the government I open it and look for a check. No check - I use the paper to start my wood stove, saves a bundle on kindling.

[Jeremydmccann]

LOL.