They keep prodding the stirring giant that is awakening...and there's going to be some major blow back...starting in 2010.
OBAMA'S BRIDGE TOO FAR
THE STORM UNLEASHED ON AMERICA
You can count illegals.
You can count the homeless using “estimates”.
You can not count Utah’s citizens who are out of state doing good works....sigh
I’m sure the ACORN types would choose to overlook the missionaries even if they were all home.
Oh Ok...Liberals believe they can change the earths climate but they cant accurately count overseas missionary's. Gotcha.
They could bring the missionaries home for the census.
I am not sure teaching the fairy tales of the convicted fraud, Joseph Smith counts as good works.
Can these people be any more transparent?
“there’s no way to reliably count those overseas in 2010”
Airplane tickets there would be a way.
I wonder if they count Americans who are serving overseas in the Peace Corps?
There goes Mayor Ray Nagin’s plan to have Katrina refugees counted as still living in New Orleans.
Can bet every illegal in Utah will be counted though.
Then don’t count me.
Don’t count any military.
And so what is the Missionary Position?
bftal
When I cut through all of my personal feelings about the LDS Church and Mormonism and look at the issue on its merits, I come to a conclusion.
Utah is right and Washington DC is wrong as usual.
That is the choice of the individual (assuming they actually received the "memo"...).
And while I may not agree with Mormonism, this shouldn't be about religion. This is about counting citizens of a state (and illegals should NOT count in any way but how many busses and planes are needed (or train cars?) to sent them back to their country of origin.
On that note, I am sure the IRS has zero trouble finding anyone who owes any US federal tax, regardless of where in the world said person may live.
They keep prodding the stirring giant that is awakening...and there's going to be some major blow back...starting in 2010.
don’t count missionaries. Just all the illegals, ACORN grifters, homeless parasites (estimate) and the rest of the freak fest that are the democrat party.
In the year 2000, Algore spearheaded an effort in Florida to disallow votes by military personnel voting from overseas. He said the envelopes lacked proof of date, i.e., postmarks. Military personnel serving in war zones can send mail to the U.S. which doesn’t require the normal post office processing - Gore tried to use this technicality since he assumed (probably rightly) that military personnel were heavily against him.
No matter what can or can’t be said of Mormon doctrines, not many can disagree that they are the premier record keepers outside of a few government agencies...and even that is debatable.
It is an absolutely safe bet that the Mormon Church has 99.9999% accurate centralized records of where every missionary is; where they are from; when they were sent; and when they are scheduled to return.