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.
We just had the exact same thing happen to us last week. The girl showed up just as we were leaving the house. She introduced herself as she walked up and told us that she had to ask us a few questions. I told her we had sent it in early April. She then tells me that it must have gotten lost in the mail and that it would just take about ten minutes. I told her that we already did our part and we had to leave as we were already late.
So she follows us to our car while pointedly informing us that we are required by Federal law to comply. I again pointed out that we already complied when we delivered it to the US Post office. She told us that she would be back. It really bothers me though that they ask all of these race questions and such but not even one line asking citizenship.
I know! I said the same thing. I had to wait and see who was at my house on April fools day...great day to be “census day”! LOL. I might have brought in a homeless man....never know.
The census is just being done by local people who want the money. Our worker wore a “mickey mouse” sweatshirt because she said she was working for a mickey mouse outfit!
And by the way, I heard from one of them that the only way Obama is using the census is by getting the unemployment numbers up! Yep, they are hiring hoards of workers, staggering their start dates; paying them for a week of training, then not giving them any work! Scam.