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  • http://www.gemframing.com LisaDe

    Listening to Glen Beck this morning, he gave the impression that he is opposed to filling out the census…

    Isn’t it important that we all fill it out? I still don’t fully understand what its all about. ( oh, and I will fill out American in #9!)

  • Charles Cianfrocca

    It has for years been what I put on any form where nationality is asked. When race is asked, I write in ‘human’.

    Once I was being asked on the phone for some reason, a survey of some sort:

    Her: Can I ask your race?

    Me: [few beats pause..] I’m a human… [another beat, then with apparent bafflement:] What are YOU?

  • grinlap

    If you live in a state where the political inclination is the opposite of yours, say you are red and the state is blue, by not being counted you decrease the number of representatives your state has in Congress, mostly blue.

  • JoeG

    I live in Oregon, in the rural part of the Willamette Valley.

    4 of our 5 reps are dem and one is a Rep. The one Republican is in a 80% republican district. One dem represents the must urban part of the bigest city and is 70% dem.

    The other 3 are definitely sway-able to the R side, particularly mine. Republicans outnumber dems 2-1 outside the cities, and it is only because of the big town suburb voters that my district has a dem representing it. If the rural and small town residents aren’t counted, then we get more big town suburb voters that vote dem. The more rural and small town folks counted in the district mean fewer burb voters and the district leans more republican.

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  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    At what phone number can we call you if there are any problems with your census form ?

    Answer 1:
    No…. No, You can’t.

    Answer 2:
    You got my name.
    You got my address.
    You can find my phone number.

    Answer 3:
    1.800.555.1212

  • Paul_In_Houston

    Her: Can I ask your race?

    Me: [few beats pause..] I?m a human? [another beat, then with apparent bafflement:] What are YOU?

    I’d almost be willing to actually talk to a survey caller if I could depend on the opportunity for such a reply. :-)

    -

  • The_Gadfly

    for purposes of determining how many Representatives your state gets. So in that sense, yes it is important.

    The catch is, government types figured, ‘as long as we need to send these surveyors around anyway, me might as well collect some other useful information as well.’ And they’ve tacked on more and more questions as time went along. Things like:

    Are you married?
    How many children do you have? How old are they?
    Do you have indoor plumbing?
    Do you have electricity?
    Do you have a phone? How many? By type?
    How many televisions in your house?
    What is your household income [by brackets]
    What is your race?

    While these later items certainly provide data of value to some people, opinions about the validity of using the census to collect them varies. I don’t object to the first two, see the next three as largely irrelevant, and the last two as improperly intrusive.

  • wayneepalmer

    Something just kicked me in my head about why they are trying so hard to find out how many people are occupying a particular home / structure.

    COMPLETE Redistribution of wealth.

    There are people – mostly minorities – living in squalor and crowded into public housing or on rent assistance in substandard conditions.

    Fair Share – anyone who isn’t EFFICIENTLY (in a carbon neutral manner) using their living space in a manner that is SOCIALLY FAIR OR RESPECTS DIVERSITY will be assigned additional residents to their domicile to assure both carbon efficiency and residential diversity.

    Remember when the British assigned troops to live in people’s homes and ordered the people to feed and clean up after them?

    Folks of what is considered an unfairly entitled ethnic group (who are living in homes where they aren’t fully occupying all possible living spaces) will be assigned ACORN-picked persons who “need” better housing, food, and environment.

    The owner is responsible for serving their meals and providing a clean respectful environment for the new residents.

    Remember Obama saying “We are our brother’s keepers”?

    He wasn’t speaking figuratively.

    The only way that “Middleclassness” can be ended, poor neighborhoods can finally be eliminated, and unfairly affluent people from one ethnic group can directly be made responsible for redistributing wealth to the suffering oppressed minorities is if those minorities are directly assigned to a their homes and these unfairly affluent ethnic group are made directly responsible for the care and feeding of a particular person / family.

    I think it is possible that Obama takes the whole “Me casa su casa” thing to the extreme.

  • asleep06

    Nationality: American
    Race: Human

  • Achance

    will use their union experience and “count ‘em ’til they get ‘em right.” There’s a reason they wanted it under the White House and they’ll find that the people are being uncooperative and that the Republicans are suppressing the count in the Blue places so they’re going to have to use “statistical methods” to come up with an accurate count. “Statistical methods” is simply code for counting them til they get them right.

  • Wes_W

    The question of “What is your race?”, could I get in trouble for answering “I likes that NASCAR!”?

    Would be kind of funny, and how do they know that I am not serious?

  • Michael Dugas

    It is also my preferred answer for the race question and happens to be true! =)

  • Michael Dugas

    n/t

  • CincoSolas_del_Bronx

    If it was from a MR firm, that phone call was your temporary election into and service in the Consumer Choice House of Reps, which for that call could have fewer members than the USHoR, giving you a potentially significant voice on a business decision that is likely to be of some interest to you if you have made it that far into the survey. For every question which about 13% of the populace hates to answer–guess why income and ethnicity are almost always asked at the very end–the likelihood of your voice being heard drops to nothing when the breakdowns are examined.