US Census is Getting Personal

[Gotholic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUMurKinTVE

They have no right to such personal information.

 

[Gonz]

3 people. 2 adults, one minor.

There, mine is done.

 

[MrBishop]

They should just go to Facebook like everyone else... lord knows people give out more information to complete strangers and 'friends' than they do to their own census.

 

[2minkey]

where's my aluminum deflector beanie?

 

[catocom]

alu?
that's old school.
The new beanies have a quad-core in um.

 

[Gonz]

They should just go to Facebook like everyone else... lord knows people give out more information to complete strangers and 'friends' than they do to their own census.

Section 2
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.

It's not there to count number of Toyotas you own or your income. There is one reason to have a census. To tally the number of Representatives sent to the US Congress. Every question above & beyond that is prying.

 

[Gotholic]

where's my aluminum deflector beanie?

I know, right? Just because the U.S. used the census to round up the Japanese during WWII does not mean something similar could ever happen again.

It is not like history ever repeats itself.

 

[2minkey]

really, there's such a thing as history repeating itself? golly, i'd never imagined...

so perhaps we should eliminate any record of anything, because it could be used for evil.

and technology... shit...

obviously we should all smash our telephones because they could be tapped.

i better get off this internet thing. people have used it for bad things.

better yet, let's completely eliminate free will. because somebody has to choose to use [X] in a bad way. choice is the real enemy.

 

[Winky]

Ten questions Gonz
it's the law

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/how/interactive-form.php

 

[Winky]

US Census is up your butt.

Are you now or have you ever been a member
of the Republican party?

 

[Gonz]

Ten questions Gonz
it's the law

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/how/interactive-form.php

Question 1 gets answered. None of the rest.

Question 2 is fucking stupid.

 

[MrBishop]

Ten questions Gonz
it's the law

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/how/interactive-form.php

Well...so much for the paranoia from the right.
Chicken Little must be getting exhausted by now.

 

[catocom]

They already have all that info on my household, as we where on certain
public assistance at one time, and nothing has changed.

So, no prob here personally.

 

[Gonz]

If you choose to give it, fine.

However, it is not the place of the government to ask such questions.

 

[catocom]

if it's no more than those questions, I imagine there will be some lieing going on anyway....
just like some do with the social services.

Name, rank, and ser #, for each person living there.
That is really all that is needed.

 

[Gonz]

The only thing that is NEEDED is how many people live at your address.

The purpose of the census is to determine teh number of House members you get.

 

[catocom]

personally in these times, imho, the ser # is needed.

That's all I'll say on that note.

 

[Gonz]

Why should your government be able to personally identify you on a census?

 

[catocom]

point one...to make sure you are the only one using that number.
point two I can think of right off is...to make sure to have a number.

I could probably come up with a few more, if your really that interested.

 

[ResearchMonkey]

"I nicked the census man"