Posted on 07/26/2012 2:15:58 PM PDT by Marie
I was selected for the Household Survey in 2009. They wanted to know how much money I made AND how I spent it. They wanted bank records, ATM records, cable TV invoices, and everything. I refused to answer the door. They kept coming back. One time the census woman pounded on my door and then went around and pounded on my sliding glass door. I ran outside and told her to GTF out of here. I got a series of letters explaining literaly that they were from the government and they were here to help. Long story short, after a few months they gave up and nothing bad happened to me. I was ready to go to jail but I would not give in. There was no prosecution.
Do you have a big dog? Maybe you can answer the door in the nude. You can do whatever you like in the privacy of your home if you catch my drift. You do not have to make them feel comfortable. Move a port-o-potty next to your front door and use it while they are in the doorway.
Oh, and by the way, all of the letters directed to me were addriessed to “Resident”. They claim that everytning is private and confidential. Yeah, right.
This is a must watch video. Hilarious!
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/3325110
Awesome...
bkmk
I don’t know why you would be surprised to receive “resident” letters. The census doesn’t track people, it tracks addresses. There’s no “go find where Joe Blow lives now” its, “go see who lives at this address which appears to be residential.”
Being as I am an alien from the planet Zog, I choose to answer any question that I find ‘confusing’ as “I don’t know” or “I don’t recall”. After all, if it was good enough for the Clintons in front of US Congress, who am I to argue?
I make however much gator skins are getting. I come home when the bar closes and usually pass out, uh, fall asleep in my truck and I take shower the first day of Spring whether I need it or not. So, when can I expect that purty gubment lady to make a home visit on this survey?
Burn it. Claim no knowledge of it whatsoever.
Gator skins? Waaaall fancy you! I make what coon and squirrel skins are gittin.
You guys are cracking me up! lol!
Throw it in the circular file and move on. You do not have to give this info to the govt.
I am dealing with this very thing NOW. The harassment is unbelievable. I have contacted my Senators and Representative demanding the ACS be made voluntary.
In 2005, (thank you Republicans) is was made mandatory with penalty for not responding the survey. I refuse to answer anything as I did fill out the census in 2010....hope I do not end up in jail for my civil disobedience.
Agree!
Why does the government seek this information? The answer is simple. They survey the ants so that they will know where to establish the poverty line for the benefit of the grasshoppers. The better the ants do, the higher the poverty line goes.
Also, based on the type of house that you live in will enable them to set the minimum standards for the type of housing to provide for the grasshoppers. Now we can’t let the ants get to far ahead of the grasshoppers can we? Just would not be “social justice” for that to happen.
I worked for the Census Bureau in 1900 and 2000 but my wife and I never did anwer any of heir questions. They get most all the desired information anyway but it is mostly second and third hand.
I understand the fourth amendment concerns in the ACS. I think your answers should lie with the fifth.
“I’m invoking my fifth amendment rights. I refuse to answer on the grounds that my answers may serve to incriminate me.”
*JOAT chuckles, shakes head in pity*
Wow, musta touched one of your "sensitive" nerves if you're still smarting on another thread 24 hours later.
Now that's funny right there! lol!!
Thank you for the first laugh of the day.
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