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I filled out mine yesterday. It asked ONLY the questions that I was willing to answer. No one I've talked to had the "long form".
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The questions on mine were the ones my wife and I found as "normal" when we were doing genealogy work a few years ago. Name, address, age, sex, race. In fact, I wonder if the whole "long form" issue was just hype.
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Schteveo
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yes but did you lie about your race like I did?
There is no long form - this is the first time. It has been replaced by the annual American Communit Survey.
Offical verbiage from census bureau.
A lot of the kerfluffle was use of the option "negro" in the list of "black" choices.
One of other complaints is asking for race. You can check as many that apply (to allow for mixed race families). Of course, that is defeated by Bambi checking black - instead of both black & white. A "lot" of folks are reportedly marking "other" and writing "Human"
This just makes for more fun when the descendants do their genealogy sleuthing in the distant future.
What else did they ask that was invasive? It was only 10 questions.
Best if the conservatives don't send their forms in. That way we can use the resources meant for them on more deserving populations.
But my point was this.
There was a great deal of talk about the "non-essential" questions in the Census. They just don't exist.
My point is this. We should HATE it just as bad when conservatives or libertarians stretch the truth, prevaricate, tells falsehoods, LIE about anything. It does nothing for our side when lies are told.
It makes us no better than the other side. And we certainly don't need to emulate them to get ahead.
That makes us them.
I got the long form (3 pages) here in NYC. I answered (1) as to number of residents, and "American" as to nationality. Period! FCUK 'EM!
The 14 illegals who live in one room a couple of blocks from me appreciated getting the long form, since they had run out of toilet paper.
Spider,
when you say long form, what were the questions. Mine was 3 pages, folded to half sheet size to fit the envelope. But it was all names, ages, sex, just like the census info I've seen in my family searches that go back before the Civil War.
I do wonder where there are 9 or 10 people living under one roof, in such large instances of that arrangement, that the Basic Census Form was written for that number.
no, no the extra spaces we so that you could lie and add people
semi-OT
OK, now I'm really getting to screw with the census!!! Filled that MFr out with the present addx, heard today that my bid on a HUD house was accepted, so the addx is now going to be wrong.
It's a minor point, but it be's funny to me.
And where's our troll?
Hey pecker neck, what are YOU doing to clear Toxic Assets?
(he'll find a way to make me the bad guy here, just you wait)
Steve, mine was folded also. That's what i meant by 3 pages. They asked about number of people, race, sex, nationality, phone number, education, and a bunch more i don't remember, but far more than i was going to answer.
"There seems to be much wringing of hands lately about the slow response to the 2010 census. On the one hand, that's too bad. On the other, however, it's understandable. Now I've noticed that there have been quite a few stories in the ObamaMedia out there identifying evil talk show hosts, me included, as one of the reasons for this lack of cooperation. Sorry .. but I'm not willing to take any of the heat here. I challenge anyone to come up with one single statement I've made on the air encouraging people to not fill out their census forms. Time after time I've told my listeners to fill out the form and send it in. OK ... so I have mentioned that I only answered two questions on the form. I filled out the space for the number of people living in my residence as of April 1st, and I also mentioned that both of those people live somewhere else for part of the year. Other than that ... nothing. No gender, race, age ... nothing else. Under our Constitution nothing else is needed ... and that brings us to this problem with people not participating.
To many the census is a symbol of all that is wrong with our government, it's size, its intrusiveness. Americans understand that most of the questions asked on the census, beyond numbers of people, will ultimately be used by the government to decide on where to spend money seized from the producers. They also understand that questions pertaining to race will be used to gerrymander congressional districts so as to afford maximum representative power to whoever controls state legislatures. In short, the census represents government ... and many people are growing weary of the ever-broadening presence of government in our lives."
Neal Boortz...
Don't send in your census. Then you stupid conservatives will be undercounted and get nothing. And we all know how you people push to the front of the gubmint money lines.
As for the HUD house: if you can afford to invest in property you shouldn't be getting disability.
But if it's going to be a rental, your hell has only begun.
I got 2. Sent one in. They'll probably come pay us a visit based on the one I didn't send in. Efficient, aren't they?
As usual, the troll talks before it thinks.
Yo, dumbass, I'm not INVESTING, I'm moving to a cheaper place to live and I'm doing it in a HUD house that everybody's taxes are currently holding the mortgage on. And if my becoming a homeowner again bugs you, good.
Lucifer himself was walking around Hell, observing all the suffering. He was on a mission to be sure everyone was enduring the maximum pain when he noticed a chubby old guy with white hair sweating and shoveling coal.
The guy was obviously in great distress, but the Devil decided he just wasn't suffering sufficiently.
So, he walked up to the perspiring old fellow and whispered in his ear, "Hey, Teddy... Did I tell you a Republican got your Senate seat?"
A lot of good that republican did in stopping health care reform, huh?
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