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....had the FIFTH census working stop by yesterday....he left with the same answers the other FOUR left with........
I gave my answer. I wrote “2 residents.” Each time the enumerator came to my door for “clarification” or to apologize for assumed previous offense I said with a smile, “Two.” I refuse to be impolite to them. They are doing what they contracted for pay to do. And I did it twice, in 1990 and 2000. I do not grudge them the money though I believe it is at least 90% wasted. The Constitutional mandate can surely be accomplished with a tiny fraction of the expense that is actually incurred.
A Census worker left a form in my door handle Sunday stating he stopped by and will return if I don’t call. It looks like he will be returning but will get the same answer I wrote on my form, giving only the number of people in my household.
I only filled out the first couple of questions. Two weeks ago some older man started ringing our door bell and then tried to talk to our neighbors about us.
He didn’t get any answers from them and then he started to literally hang around our front door, bothering my wife when she came home. She told him she was busy and going in for dinner so he waited on our front patio. I finally went outside, told him I had answered IAW the Constitution, and that he would get no more information. He was not happy.
Somewhere in my files I have a copy old questionnaire that was sent to me to fill out that was half an inch thick. The questions were ridiculous and none of their business. One of the questions that sticks with me is them asking how many rolls of toilet paper our family used each month. The next time I got the long form was about 10 or more years later and it had been shortened considerably but I still found it too intrusive. My sticking point on the last one was that I could not check off Canadian as being my nationality. Insane absolutely insane.