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Have You Received an "American Community Survey"? (Census)
9/16/13 | Self

Posted on 09/16/2013 3:28:02 PM PDT by Haiku Guy

Another FReeper indicated that he had received the American Community Survey, which is the 28-page extended survey from the Census Bureau that asks all kinds of invasive questions about income, health, living arrangements, etc.

I had also received the American Community Survey some time ago. I did not return it, and I have not heard from the Census Bureau since.

In the thread, it seemed like a number of FReepers have received this survey, which got me to thinking... Is it possible that the Census Bureau is targeting folks like FReepers, collecting data for political purposes?

A few years ago, I would not have believed it. Now, after the NSA and IRS scandals, I am beginning to wonder.

So, how about it. Have you gotten this survey? If so, what did you do with it? Did you fill it out, or did you roundfile it? Let's see if we can generate some data.

If FReepers have been targeted disproportionately with this survey, it would be a big deal. Hugh and Series. I'm talking Shower Time, big time.


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To: Haiku Guy

I never answer these census things. If they come around, I speak Russian to them.


41 posted on 09/16/2013 4:09:38 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Sopater

Do they know if you “Freep” and where you live?


Yes and yes.


42 posted on 09/16/2013 4:11:18 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Sopater
This is an unscientific survey for sure, because I think you've counted me three times.

You're right! Back to Seven. Sorry.

43 posted on 09/16/2013 4:11:52 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
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To: Haiku Guy

I figure if the government goon wants some of this information they can spend a week observing my house from down the street.


44 posted on 09/16/2013 4:16:45 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: paudio
It is NOT designed to target conservatives or Tea Partiers, since it's been around longer than TeaParties.

So have IRS audits.

Does not mean they can be used to target conservatives.

45 posted on 09/16/2013 4:19:06 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
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To: paudio
Do you have to respond to the ACS? Yes.

Bureaucrat talking, not constitutional authority.

46 posted on 09/16/2013 4:20:53 PM PDT by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: paudio
It is NOT designed to target conservatives or Tea Partiers, since it's been around longer than TeaParties.

I would agree that initially the survey was, apparently, a randomly target effort to gather data. To my mind, it is wrongheaded, because that information is none of the government's business, either in the specific or the abstract, but that's just me.

The question is, has the selection methodology been changed to target more surveys to active opponents to the current administration, specifically, FReepers. If so, that would represent a huge problem.

47 posted on 09/16/2013 4:23:05 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
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To: Haiku Guy

Tell them you charge $50 per hour to fill out forms.


48 posted on 09/16/2013 4:25:24 PM PDT by B4Ranch (AGENDA: Grinding America Down ----- <<http://vimeo.com/63749370)
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To: paudio
"Responding to the American Community Survey (ACS) is about helping national, tribal, state and local officials make informed decisions with timely and accurate data."

A free market can do that 100x better - and quicker.

49 posted on 09/16/2013 4:26:02 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: B4Ranch
Tell them you charge $50 per hour to fill out forms.

I like it!

50 posted on 09/16/2013 4:26:11 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
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To: fwdude
"Responding to the American Community Survey (ACS) is about helping national, tribal, state and local officials make informed decisions with timely and accurate data."

They're just going to give all the money to their cronies, anyway... Why do they need data to do that?

51 posted on 09/16/2013 4:27:31 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
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To: Sopater

“Do they know if you “Freep” and where you live ?”

I get mail, so somebody knows where I live.

They probably know KrisKrinkle “Freeps”. Whether or not they’ve connected my screen name with me, I don’t know.

They may have the appropriate data in the files to make the connection, but I don’t know that they have bothered or why they would have bothered to pick on me out of the probably millions they could chose to pick on.


52 posted on 09/16/2013 4:31:59 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: Haiku Guy

Hmmmm. I threw mine away unopened, and haven’t responded to any follow-up mailings. I thought it was just luck-o-the-draw, but now I wonder...


53 posted on 09/16/2013 4:35:46 PM PDT by Doug Loss
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To: KrisKrinkle
Kieran Healey - Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere
54 posted on 09/16/2013 4:35:53 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
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To: Doug Loss

Eight


55 posted on 09/16/2013 4:38:00 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
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To: Haiku Guy
I do not recall receiving "American Community Survey", and if I had, I would not be disposed to speak of it at this time.
56 posted on 09/16/2013 4:38:20 PM PDT by kitchen (Make plans and prepare. You'll never have trouble if you're ready for it. - TR)
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To: Haiku Guy

I did! I sent them a letter stating that I filled in the 10 year census. I said I was not going to fill it out. I got a letter from the census, a lady who was quite surly. She stated that I was required by law to fill it out, and that they would prosecute the issue if I didn’t. I trashed the letter along with the census. I’m waiting now about three years. Just ignore it!


57 posted on 09/16/2013 4:39:44 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

Nine


58 posted on 09/16/2013 4:40:41 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
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To: Haiku Guy

I got the survey quite some time ago. I did not send it back. The law is that you have to answer the questions and send it back. The reality is that the Census Bureau wil not contest it because they do not want it to be adjudicated. Most folks send it back and going to court to force a noncomplier to comply would make it publicly known that there is no penalty and compliance would decline substantially.


59 posted on 09/16/2013 4:48:02 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: I still care; Sopater; Ouderkirk; forgotten man; flowergirl; brentv; Doug Loss; ...

Ten


60 posted on 09/16/2013 5:00:14 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
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