I am aware that I am under no obligation to answer all those questions, but interestingly, I have received neither a 'it's on its way' letter nor the actual census form. I did, however, receive a postcard telling me to hurry up already and mail my form back. I guess one of these million census workers got lost on the way to my house. Or perhaps since they work for the government they're really not accountable to anyone for the quality or quantity of work they do.

Ten questions???? Not!!! Yeah sure, ten questions if you live in a house ALONE.
Don't forget to add on seven questions each for every person counted in question 1. And those questions are mostly about race. Sorry nObama and friends, only gonna answer question 1 per the "federal mandate".

Hey, weren't you the guy lathering up Rahm Emmanuel's back in the shower room?

Sheeple like you disgust me.

Except the items answered in the census are supposed to be kept secret.

So, none of those data can be had by means other than the government, is that it? Spare me. My census goes directly to the trash.

I've heard that lefties like you have to face Washington five time a day and pray. Is that true?

As a libertarian with conservative leanings, this infuriates me the way that the cost when the spentdhrift in conservative clothing, W, refunded everyone $300.00 months early and we spent twice as much by mailing the tax refunds twice, except it cost even more.

This not a "but Bush" this is an "aw crap, more of the same" complaint.

Yepper, I plan to do the same thing.

To Census Man...If the Feds really want to know that stuff, they can ask for people to fill out a VOLUNTARY questionaire. As most of us will decline, they will have to find another way to "stack" the districting "deck" to favor THEIR desires. A minor inconvenience.

Agreed, I was just going to post that, but you beat me to it.
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Both the "it's coming" letter and the American Community Survey itself had, "Federal law requires that this form be filled out and returned" on them.

Be nice to know which federal law that's referring to.

I'm going to do the same thing on the census that I did with that stupid survey: Put a "1" in the "how many" box and mail it in.

Good for you Census Man.

We also want to know how many times you have sex with your "significant other", if that "significant other" is male or female, if you use protection.

We can use that information to craft proper healthcare legislation, study trends of STD's and make sure areas showing higher rates are studied to see if more free clinics are needed, or the residents need better education, or if a wider selection of condoms should be available, maybe even for free if you tell us your household income and it falls below 3000% of the poverty level or you live in a depressed area.

We also know if you do that with the lights on and if you use CFL's so we can figure out the proper tax you'll pay for your carbon footprint.

Well, I suggest we use our representatives methods for double dipping....take it out of their allowance for commnications - oops sorry used your part of the taxpayers money to send out "pre census" letters, nothing left for your re-election mailings....oh that doesn't matter anyway they are voting all of your Arses out anyway!!!!!

I got a letter yesterday from the Census. I believe the words "fair share" were used 3 times in the letter & made me want to puke!

I will do nothing more than simply providing the # of persons that live in my household. The government will receive absolutely no additional information from me.

OK, I seem to recall the constitution saying something about counting the people every ten years to allocate congressional districts. Why do ALL the commercials talk about "fairly distributing the wealth." What part of enumerated powers do these people not understand? It isn't in the constitution for the federal government to redistribute wealth "fairly" or otherwise. The "general welfare" has nothing to do with INDIVIDUAL welfare, but the courts and politicians don't seem to know the difference.

The longer I live the more I think Ronald Reagan was correct when he said that it wasn't that liberal are uneducated, it is just that so much of what they know isn't true. (I would have quoted it, but I didn't take the time to go look up his actual phrasing of the sentiment.)

What does the EPA have to do with the 2010 Census? Income Redistribution ! I'm calling it "Reparations on Steroids." Emphasis below is all mine!
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This message is being sent to all EPA Employees.

MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT: 2010 Census – What You Can Do to Ensure It’s Success

FROM: Craig E. Hooks, Assistant Administrator
Office of Administration and Resources Management

TO: All EPA Employees

I am writing to you today to seek your assistance in helping to ensure that the 2010 Census is successful. One way you can do this, is to make sure that you take the time to fill out the 2010 Census Questionnaire that should arrive at your home around March 15, and is requested to be returned by April 1, 2010, Census Day. This 2010 Census is the shortest form yet, with 10 questions that should take you only 10 minutes to answer. 10 Questions !???. Whatever happened to just one "How many people live in your household"? Our Constitution mandates that we count the population. NOT the condition of the population !

As you probably know, the U.S. Constitution mandates a Census of the population every 10 years for both citizens and non-citizens. Census data determines the number of seats each state will have in the U. S. House of Representatives. [Here comes the code for Income Redistribution or Reparations on Steroids as I call it bill]: On a more personal level, Census data can be used to determine the allocation of federal funds for public health, neighborhood improvements, transportation, education, senior services and many other vital community services – issues that impact all of our daily lives. Accurate Census data is critical, especially for the underserved and economically disadvantaged communities where environmental justice issues are so critically important.

Census data is very important to EPA. One of the many ways we use this information is to help support the Administrator’s priority of [More code meaning Income Redistribution or Reparations on Steroids]“expanding the conversation on environmentalism and working for environmental justice.” For example, Census data along with health statistics, are used to ensure that the most current and meaningful information is made available to the pubic through EPA’s Envirofacts database.

If your work here at EPA affords you an opportunity to communicate with stakeholders, ESPECIALLY THOSE IMPACTED BY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ISSUES, I would encourage you to promote the value of filling out the 2010 Census Questionnaire. It is short, it is confidential, and it is very important for helping EPA ensure that we are protecting the environment and pubic health of all residents in this nation.

So I encourage you to “Take 10” and fill out the 2010 Census. And don’t forget to encourage your neighbors, friends, fellow employees and EPA’s stakeholders to “Take 10” as well. We want to make sure that everyone is counted.

They're going to hire an ADDITIONAL 750k people? The total will be around a million?

Look, we all know there's an estimate of a bit over 300 million people; do they really need 1 person for every 300, especially when most homes will have an average of like 3 people? And for this they're going to work 19 hours a week for six weeks?

It's just unbelievable.

1. n\a. n/a. n/a. n/a. n/a. n/a. n/a...Oops, I see a trend emerging here.

Did anyone else get the pre-census American Community Survey? Back in January I got a letter telling me it was coming. Then it showed up the NEXT DAY.

It was just like the census form but full of asinine questions such as, "Do you have a range or oven in your house?" and "Do you have trouble walking?" The thing was around 20 pages of questions.

I filled out the date and put a "1" in the box for how many people live at my address and mailed it back to them.

About two weeks ago I got ANOTHER full copy of the census/survey with a letter that said, "In case you missed it, please fill this out and return it."

This other survey, like the census, is mandatory under federal law.

An even bigger beef with this letter was the fact that they are trying to encourage you to complete the census so that "your community" will get its "fair share" of government money. And that if you don't return the census, your community won't get its fair share.

No mention was made of the actual Constitutional purpose of the census - to determine seating in the House of Representatives, and to apportion direct taxes. Nope. It's all about how your community won't get as much of the money that government has taxed/seized from the productive members of American society. The census is now literally all about how stolen loot will get distributed.

At a recent visit to the library here in Michigan, There was a table manned by at least 3 folks plugging the census... Could have been volunteers I guess, I didn't think to ask. They could have even been city workers, I suppose. But they were handing out swag bags - a nice canvass tote with the census logo. The bag contained three propaganda flyers, a pencil, pad and refrigerator magnet. All were imprinted with the census logo and the city name. How's that for your government at work.

Good question Rick. I suspect that many of these workers will be connected with Acorn and with Prezbo's help have been consistently gainfully unemployed. I would venture to say that the cigs and cheap wine pay they received during the campaign will continue even during their stint as a "census worker". Then they can reset to another 2 years of unemployment.

As I have mentioned in the past, I own and operate a small AM radio station in SW VA.

It galls me to hear of the huge money being spent to advertise this census, while simultaneously receiving requests for my station to air free "PSA's" advertising for census jobs.

Thanks again for all you do, Uncle Sam

So let's say you've been unemployed for a period of time and you are receiving unemployment benefits. You take the "temporary" job as a census worker. I would assume your unemployment benefits would be stopped. So do your unemployment benefits start up again when the "temporary" census job has been completed?

Our government spends huge sums over our money on an add campaign to solicit us to fill out a census so the government can give our communities back huge sums of our money that it has taken from us at the point of a gun. They call it getting "our fair share". How about just let us keep our money.

It's even better than the fact they sent letters that the census was coming. At least in our case, they sent us seven of the letters. Somehow, they listed our house as a house AND a multi-family dwelling, so they sent us a copy of the letter to our address, then 6 more to the exact same address, except after our street number, they had added 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B. I'm thinking it might be fun if we actually wind up getting 7 copies of the form, too.

How about the commercial that aired during the 1st quarter of the Super Bowl? It had lots of familiar faces but the only one I could name was Ed Begley, Jr (enviro-weenie).

That was just the first in a series of commercials about the census being a 'snapshot' of the USA (America is rather vague, since there are N & S Americas, a CENTRAL America & a couple dozen countries between them all).