At the one and only Tea Party meeting I attended, an attractive mother was given the floor to deride the upcoming census, warning that we'll be asked personal questions about how many flush toilets we have, as well as the names and ages of our children. Similar objections are raised by The New American. Libertarians, shrieking that we'll all be asked whether we have trouble "learning, remembering or concentrating," are urging an outright boycott.Well, since that time, I received my form, which took about two minutes to complete. If I was asked whether I have problems remembering things, I must have forgotten.
Having voted for Obama, I must have received the short form.
Congress is specifically directed to do a head count every ten years, in "such manner as they shall by Law direct" (Article I, Section 2).
LV Congressman Charlie Dent has agreed to co-sponsor the “Census Oversight Efficiency and Management Reform Act,” a piece of bipartisan legislation designed to help prevent operational problems that have emerged on the eve of the censuses in 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010, in part from a lack of steady leadership and management due to changes in Presidential administrations.
All seven living former Directors of the U.S. Census Bureau, including those who served under both Republican and Democratic Administrations, have endorsed this overhaul. Census Directors include Vincent P. Barabba (1973-1976; 1979–1981), John G. Keane (1984-1989), Barbara Everitt Bryant (1989–1993), Martha Farnsworth Riche (1994-1998), Kenneth Prewitt (1998–2001), Charles Louis Kincannon (2002-2008), and Steven H. Murdock (2008-2009).
In a news release about this bipartisan bill, Dent stated, “The Constitutional duty of the United States Census Bureau is primarily a scientific one. Successfully enumerating a population as large and diverse as ours is a difficult but critical task, one which must not be tainted by partisan politics. It is vital that the work of dedicated Census Bureau employees is not affected by whichever party controls the White House. The bipartisan Census Oversight Efficiency and Management Reform Act will provide greater transparency and accountability to ensure that the Census Bureau has the resources to provide a count that is truly fair and accurate.”
5 comments:
What business is it of the US govt. to find out how many toilets folks have? And in this day of pedophile proliferation, some could be terrified if they are ordered by fear of penalty to reveal names and ages of young children on a form. Recent news accounts revealed the break in of a Blue Cross data base office and thousands of medical communication transcriptions were stolen. Names and addresses and medical issues of policy holders stolen. By whom?
What are the "operational difficulties" that the government encounters? I'm very confused about the Tea Party outrage about the census. These people that decry the loss of privacy are all on MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, personal websites sharing TMI with us every day. Two minutes seems long, Bernie. Mine took me less than a minute.
It's depressing that Republicans secured a promise from Bob Groves to make the Census less accurate by ruling out the use of statistical sampling statistical sampling.
I'm worried that all of these anti-Obama people will not complete the census. They can't seem to think outside of conspiracy theories and paranoid delusions.
WHATEVER PARTY YOU BELONG TO, DON'T YOU SEE THAT THEY WASTE TAX PAYER MONEY BY SEDING MANY FORMS, WASTE PAPERS (KILL MANY TREES). WHY CAN THEY JUST SEND ONE FORM OR A CARD TO ASK POEPLE GO ON LINE AND FILL THE CENSUS FORM OUT
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