Posted on 04/01/2010 12:06:23 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
Today is national Census Day, the official date used as a marking point for the biennial national population count.
...Texas has been lagging behind the rest of the country.
But our Texas on the Potomac readers say there's a very good reason why they hadn't return them before today: The form states that the Census count takes place on April 1.
Question 1 on the Census form asks: "How many people are living in this house on April 1st?"
..."The form has been widely publicized as being a legal requirement and at our house, we're not about to sign and file with the government a legal document attesting to something as of April 1, until that date has come," said TxPotomac reader Geoff Arms.
Only 46 percent of Texas households have mailed back their census forms to date, lower than the nationwide average of 52 percent...
Ben Tobias... "I believe that the wording in the Census form about information being effective on April 1st causes people to delay responding until after that date," he said.
"To complete the Census earlier that April 1st could be considered fraud on a Federal document because circumstances in individual residences could change."
Michael Gregorio, spokesperson for the U.S. Census Bureau told TxPotomac that the instructions clearly explained that April 1 is not the deadline to return your form.
"It is clear when you read the Census instructions that April 1 is not a deadline for Census participation but only the reference date that the process uses for the count," he said.
"We expect a bump in the participation rate nationwide as of today or tomorrow because some people don't want to return it until after Census day..."
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.chron.com ...
You’ve received FOUR census forms? Are you in a heavily democrat district too?
One of the last vestiges of ACORN before it dies the death it should will be to influence the census. This will mean that left-leaning districts will likely find themselves having greater population growth than right-leaning districts although in reality I doubt there are few if any districts where that is true.
Dems can’t win elections by playing fair or telling the truth. Cheating with dead people’s votes, stuffing of ballot boxes, intimidating voters and lying about what they plan to do if in power is typical Dem playbook stuff. Expect more of the same in November with loads of media compliance and coverups to all the illegal activities that lead up to the election.
I dislike being bullied by a government I believe is illegal.
No,
One letter telling me it’s coming,
Census form arrives following week
Another letter telling me to send it in
Today another Census form in my mail box.
They did that ten years ago too. When they drove up, I walked out the front door and saw the clipboard just as she was getting out of her car. Before she said a word I calmly held up my hand with the appropriate number of fingers and said (somewhat forcefully),
"Four!" to which she responded,
"Huh? Uh, we're from the Bureau of the Census."
"I know. Four."
"We have some questions."
"Four people live here."
"We have some OTHER questions."
"The Constitution does not authorize you to collect that information. It only permits an enumeration. Four."
"But we have some OTHER questions."
"I'm not going to answer those questions. Please get off my property. Thank you."
I turned away and went back into the house. They left. That was it.
We haven’t received ours yet. We live in a small town and have a P.O. Box so if they mailed it to the street address they plugged in to their gps unit, they really screwed up cause there are no mailboxes on my street and many others around here are the same.
Same here - they hung it on my gate.
Ditto that!!!
There gettin the number of people living in my house and that’s it, no signing or anything else.
Oh, man. That guy is on FIRE! Hahah! I listened to him twice laughing my butt off.
THAT was fun!
It is amazing how the count is being marketed on the TV: Be counted so you can get yours!!!
My race is American.
Take that Barky!
Hung it on my door.
They hung it on our gate too...my dogs ate my homework ; )
I am trying to create interest in the race "East Atlantean".
So far, nio takers. and hey, that's fine, but keep in mind the racial spoils to be bestowed upon me as the sole remaining member of my race!
Hail East Atlantia!
Awesome!!!!!
I’m in a very Republican country in a western state, and I and many people I have talked to have not yet received their forms.
I would fill out my census but I lost it in the same boating accident over the Marians Trench that claimed all my firearms.
Oh, but that is the stupid irony of the government generated form. The instructions clearly said to please complete this and mail it in the next few days. I got mine the second week of March. Therefore, if you obeyed the instructions you were forced to tell an untruth.
Government: you can’t fix stupid.
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