Comments on: The Census: Go Black!

By: John Boy

John Boy — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:55:43 +0000

What will the president check for race? white or black?

By: barbm

barbm — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:03:55 +0000

here’s my thinking on the census. texas would get an additional 3 congressional seats based on growth in our state. unfortunately, that growth is mostly from illegal aliens and from them having a dozen babies so they can get more welfare. the democrat congressmen here are courting their votes by offering them amnesty. remember that the ones who came her and had an anchor baby are now eligible to vote and want the rest of their extended family to come here so they can get welfare too. in the last election, democrats took my state by storm. it was the dems who passed the healthcare bill last night and who will, according to obama, start work on immigration reform next. if they can push through healthcare without the senate, then they can push through amnesty too. I will NOT help them, so i’m not filling it out. think about it before sending in your census form. how many illegals are in your state? is that population growing? how many democrats won in your state in the last election? check on line to see how many there were and how many there are now. and about the letter telling us they were sending the forms, it cost approximately $54 million for those useless letters!! my son, nephew, and i took the test last year to work for the census. my nephew missed 1, my son 2, and i missed 3. none of us has been called because we don’t speak spanish fluently. you shouldn’t be required to speak another language to work for your own government.

By: Polli

Polli — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:12:24 +0000

NUNYA to the Census.

By: WorkingTommyC

WorkingTommyC — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:27:19 +0000

EM:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Census

Even the wiki entry notes that the number of people in each household is the only question legally required to be answered.

One interesting note in the history on wikipedia is the note about the “inquiries on fisheries” in the 1840 census. The fisheries were in the Northeast. The northeastern states were in a high population area split up into many more states (based on colonial divisions) than other parts of the country giving them advantages in both the US House and the US Senate.

The fisheries were the first(?) recipients of corporate welfare on the flimsy excuse of supplying our navy with able bodied seamen–as if such industry would not have existed without government subsidies.

Political power translating into federal level corporate welfare, even if started back in 1840, does not justify such unconstitutional practices (essentially fascism) as rampantly occur today. On the same principle, long established precedent does not justify intrusive inquiries on the census today.

The fact that our ancestors allowed more that what was required does not mean that we have to. Unless we’re willing to break with illegal, unconstitutional precedents, we’re doomed to repeat the history of every other republic’s slide into tyranny or break-up that has been the case since the invention of republics.

By: T4

T4 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:43:01 +0000

EM,

Thank you. People often get caught up in “follow the leader” talking points and forget that a brain is capable of more than regurgitation. Cynicism and overreaction; big surprise here. What if something bad actually happened?

Until then, try listening to the soothing vocals of Linda Ronstadt in “Blue Bayou”

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:56:54 +0000

By law you’re only required to fill out the very first part. The part about how many toilets you have, you can leave that blank. Big Brother probably already knows anyway…

As far as my ethnicity, is biracial a choice? Heinz 57? Would that make me an ethnic minority?

By: WorkingTommyC

WorkingTommyC — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:33:43 +0000

What would it take to destroy the reliability of those numbers collected by the census?

If just 10% or some other small but unknowable percentage of us answered that we’re black instead of white–or white instead of black–and similarly put in false information we’d have a classic case of “garbage in–garbage out.”

This would the mildest form of civil disobedience possible, I’d think, in effectively protesting what is real and illegal racial profiling and other invasions of privacy by the federal government.

As long as you’re accurate in the number of people in the household, that’s all you’re legally obligated to report. The rest of it can be pure fairy tale as far as the U.S. Constitution is concerned–unless they amend the Constitution to once again count certain persons as counting 3/5ths of a person.

By: EM

EM — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:21:50 +0000

on an interesting side note:
If anyone ever decides to check into their ancestry, the census is the most valuable document I’ve found. It gives a lot of info, head of house, birthdays, where the parents are from (a lot of immigration) dates of immigration, what kind of jobs.. servant names and what race they were. Goes way back….
Guess we won’t have very accurate info anymore.

By: scooter

scooter — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:45:17 +0000

What the heck are you talking about? Besides all the other reasons we need to take this seriously, it is just fun to fill out.

By: Bottom Line.....

Bottom Line..... — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:32:50 +0000

I’m with countryboy. Illegal Mexican it will be…