ESAD would be my response. But then again it wouldn’t be very Christian. Perhaps “I’ll pray for you as you get the heck off my property”
Just let them try it at my house.
This is standard procedure for the census.
Isn’t this SOP if they don’t get answers at the door after a few attempts?.
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.
I saw one of these guys driving one of those cars one morning when I came back home from taking my wife to school. (I work from home.) He waved at me and then parked out in front of my house for a while. I of course didn’t answer anything on the census except number of people in the house. He didn’t knock on our door or anything. I suppose he knows my race now since he saw me park there.
wow, my brother lives there, I will have to ask him about this.
So far I have only seen the bus riding goth(sex indeterminate) Census temp pounding on doors in my neighborhood...and I somehow have missed all 3 of its’ visits.
“Jack” came to visit me on Sunday. I told him I shredded the census and that I wouldn’t give any info but name, age and the fact that I lived here. He said he could ask for info on me from my neighbors. I asked if he was proud to be doing it. The look on his face told me he was ashamed of himself. He said it was the law. I said I would be fine with being made the example. I was wearing my “I’m the NRA in Virginia and I vote.” t-shirt. I don’t trust my neighbors anymore than I trust ole Jack. Doesn’t the Govt. know everything about me anyway and can’t they just make shiit up as they see fit? Isn’t that was the govt. does all the time? Whey do they need this b.s.?
happening in florida also.
This is standard procedure for the census and has been for hundreds of years now. There are marks in census records from the early 1800’s when the labor workers were in the fields and couldn’t answer that they would contact a neighbor to gather the information.
This is standard procedure for the census and has been for hundreds of years now. There are marks in census records from the early 1800’s when the labor workers were in the fields and couldn’t answer that they would contact a neighbor to gather the information.
P.S. The official SOP is to leave two Notice of Visits and if no one is home on the third physical visit (the max number of times allowed), then the worker must attempt to find a proxy for that address.
Well, the census worker came to my house and accused me of not returning my form. I hotly exclaimed that I had returned it on April 1.
“Oh, that’s late,” sez he.
“Late?” I exclaimed. “How could it be late? The question was who is living at this address on April 1? How could I return it any earlier? Is the government STUPID?”
As the gentleman tried to control himself from laughing, he replied, “Ma’am, I’m not allowed to answer that question. But, I’ll have to ask you all these questions over again.”
As I protested, I pointed out that had I returned the form any earlier than April 1, I would be lying because one of us could have died, or someone could have come to live with us between whenever I mailed the form and April 1. Then, the form would be inaccurate.
The Census field work is really in two parts:
1. A census of residences, where maps from the previous census are reviewed and updated using various records, and some census workers also do field work. That took place in late 2009 and early 2010.
2. The forms are sent out after that is completed, to all the residences, and the returned forms are entered into computers.
3. Then census workers go out to visit the residences (addresses) for which the form was not returned.
The comments on that site are ridiculous. Uninformed, hysterical people making incorrect statements and acting like this is the first time a census has been held for crying out loud.
The Census 2000 long form would have been fairly irritating to fill out (not sure what is used for 2000), but I’ve always found the census short forms far less intrusive and irritating than filing an income tax return.
Out here in the country, I have two neighbors. Both of them would tell the census worker to buzz off.
I would do likewise for them.
We don’t take kindly to intruders.
FWIW, I feel a little sympathy for the census guys working around here. Most of the homes cannot be seen from the street. Very few mailboxes as the USPS sucks around here and most folks have PO Boxes. As a result, only a few driveways have street numbers.
Good luck census guys.
LOL! How stupid. The Census is a CONSTITUTIONAL mandate. First one was done in 1790. All they want to know is how many people lived in the house on April fools day. That is all anyone has to tell the government. Numbers. If you don’t like it, don’t answer the rest, but it is the law that you must answer the number question.
Census workers are charged with the getting the numbers. If you refuse, they ask your neighbors. And they are probably one of your neighbors anyway....
People, we can’t move forward until you open your door to your census taker. It’s the only way we can get our fair share of beer, skittles and rainbows coming out the rear ends of unicorns.