Posted on 01/29/2009 11:29:23 AM PST by mark gordon
I've taken it more than once including the "sub-surveys", for lack of a better term. Currently, I'm a representative household for the health care-specific survey. If you think the general ACS questions are intrusive wait until you see the health care one.
So, do you need government intrusiveness explained to you?
Not at all. I think it is intrusive. But I do think some of it serves a legitimate government purpose. I'd be happy to take these surveys - anonymously.
Very intrusive. And given the fact that the survey demands name of each person in the home and asks specific questions of each one, I would probably throw Roe v. Wade and its “penumbra” which created the liberals’ vaunted right to privacy back in their faces and refuse to answer any information which is personally identifiable.
I index past census records into computer-readable programs and I have seen the creep of U.S. census information. Early census records were simply head counts by sex and whether minority or majority age, maybe acreage owned, then children’s ages were added, then citizenship, immigration year, whether a resident could read or write, race, marital status, relationship of residents to each other, whether the family owned or rented, birthplace, birthplace of parents of each resident. But nothing compares to the sample 2003 questionnaire. Truthfully, I’d have to spend a fair amount of time researching to even answer a lot of those questions.
I will be a "non-complier" in 2010 (and in 2009 if I get the ACS). My wife, who has the right to make up her own mind about compliance relating to her, will be instructed that she's not authorized to disclose any information on anything I own separately or jointly, or on any personal attributes of mine. She can tell them she can't respond on my responsibility.
I'm willing to go to jail for this. By the time they come to collect a fine, my money will be out of the bank, hidden in a safe place. If they want to put a productive, tax-paying citizen in jail for noncompliance with unconstitutional laws, just let them. That's less money they can use to redistribute to the lazy and unproductive.
The census has been used too long to divide us into groups and set us against one another. The data gained therefrom is the basis for computer modeling by which our politicians gerrymander us into safe Republican and Democrat districts, thus undermining our election process and causing much of the putrid stink that's rampant in our politics. The data is also what allows our politicians to decide whose vote to buy, and how much of our money to use to do it with and where.
Sorry. I refuse to willingly participate in the undermining of this nation that this data enables the slimeballs to get away with.
I doubt they will do anything of the sort.
I've filled out the questions I wanted, left blank the ones I didn't like, and never heard anything again.
They don't appear to care/notice as, over the years, I've been designated a represenative household for a couple other issues. Same thing. Fill out what you want, leave the rest blank.
I don’t....but my child loves to ‘doodle’. LOL!
Really...it's not as if the FedGov doesn't steal from us right under our noses on a consistent basis ; )
"I don't recall."
. .. But I do think some of it serves a legitimate government purpose
Considering the first statement, the second legitimate purpose may well be defined as "a way to push through national health care legislation". I can hear it now on he news
"Juanita, after leaving her rented, uninsured, shack, spends four hours on public transit to get to her low-paying, temporary job where she does not have health insurance for her fourteen children...
Then the other part of the survey is added..But John, who lives in a fashionable mansion gets to drive his Mercedes one block (wasting gasoline and polluting the air), to his executive high paying position, can well afford health care for his 2.5 children and his diamond-laden wife...
Juanita just got richer. All due to a survey.
And as you said, not filling it out indicates you don't exist. That most certainly won't opt you out of the present, too many trails will still lead to you, but it might deny your descendants the fact of your existence in the future.
Truthfully, Id have to spend a fair amount of time researching to even answer a lot of those questions.
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That’s the truth. They even ask about savings accounts and what the last years average electric bills!
LOL! There is no check box for insufficientdata, but I like it!
They wouldn’t even get into my yard without running into my welcoming committee. A huge 105 lb. German Shepherd that doesn’t like anyone but us, a 65 lb. psycho Collie/St. Bernard mix (think Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and a muscular 110 lb. German Shepherd/Sharpei mix that loves to wrestle. I”ll just sit on my porch in my rocker and laugh at them.
I had the long form census and gave name, address, and number in the household. They are entitled to that information.
My race? Other - Human
Religion? Other - Jedi
Distance of daily commute? other - variable
Other questions? Answers were truthful but not helpful (as with Clinton under oath), or at least not provably false.
I had a lot of fun and never heard any complaints about my answers.
I ditched a tattered Old Glory for a Gadsden flag myself. That brings up a question. I still have the tattered Old Glory folded away in a closet. Does any American Legion still take old flags for proper disposal? Can I just drop it off?
Only fill out the parts required by the Constitution. Name, rank and serial number - period. BTW there is no delivery confirmation so you just did not get yours.
Savings accounts? Zero (you think of them as bank accounts)
Electric bills? Also zero (oh, you thought they meant unpaid electric bills over a year old, so sorry, but you don't have the information they asked for. Perhaps about the same as Al Gore, $1500 a month).
Research only takes time if you try to get it right. When they threaten you with prosecution for failing to salute on command, "seig heil", there is no obligation to be either truthful or helpful. As for whether to stand up to them or just have fun making up answers, that's a personal decision and refusal to respond is probably the more moral decision.
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