YOUR RESPONSE IS REQUIRED BY LAW - The American Community Survey

The American Community Survey ^ | 7-30-05 | US Government

[Modok]

Constitution?..What's that? Just remember ACS is good and its compasionate. More money for it please...

[PhilipFreneau]

>> By design, the Constitution was intended to create a Federal Gov't. General Welfare covers a lot of territory.

I assume you are being facetious. According to James Madison (the Father of the Constitution) the General Welfare powers are enumerated in Article 1, Section 8. For example, one of the General Welfare powers provided the federal government is "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes" (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3). Another is to Coin Money (Clause 5). And another is to establish Post Offices and post Roads (Clause 7). The authorized powers of the Federal Government are few and defined. Most of the power the Federal Government claims today has been usurped by tyrants.

[Bahbah]

If they want to ask us how many people live in our house, I'll comply, nothing more than that.

The 1970 census sent out a questionnaire that went onto how many toilets in your house, etc. I sent it back with the number of residents only AND THEY CALLED AND THREATENED ME. I am not kidding. I told them to stuff it then and will do so again. The next time the thing came out they had passed a statute requiring compliance. I still will not do it. I am not a crazed hard righter (whatever that is), but I will not spend one minute feeding their "here's how we should allocate the money" machine.

[Indy Pendance]

I completely agree. First they sent Resident a letter explaining this survey was coming. Today, Resident received the letter. Until I see a constitutional amendment requiring it, I'm not going to tell them one damn thing. How much is our mortgage, do we have a second mortgage, etc. It's none of their freaking business. And they make it sound so good. You know, for the good of the community. Oh, please, since when has the feds ever done anything good for our tiny community. Oh, that's right, their going to plan a fire department. Sheesh. We are rural. The more I started reading this, the angrier I got. The first thing I said to my husband was, I'm contacting Sensenbrenner. The government is completely out of control. This is just one more example.

[Modok]

You are going to contact Sensenbrenner who is pushing the national ID card business to get government in control....

[freepatriot32]

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[razorback-bert]

You are required by U.S. law to respond to this survey

Nothing about lying, so lie.

[Indy Pendance]

He's our rep, he's been pretty good overall. The last couple decisions he's made have us all scratching our head. It's probably time for him to retire. Not a problem in this area replacing him with a good conservative.

[Servant of the 9]

It was there by intent since the beginning. It was just a matter of time until some began to make the general more concrete. So thought Patrick Henry, so thought Brutus and others who wondered why the states would promote such a system relying on honorable men that would untimately result in the deconstruction of the states and the construction of the national system.

I see you are among the penumbraphiles.
I don't like 'by intent' I like 'explicit'

If we are to find things there 'by intent' then there is no reason for them to have included an amendment process, because you can find absolutely anything in there 'by intent'.

So9

[Bahbah]

I'm contacting Sensenbrenner.

Hah, former Badger here. The problem with this sort of thing is that you have to get enough folks who are not sheeple. I am going to be one of them. I hope they send me this thing. My Senators are Bond and Talent and I have a Republican congessman. I will not comply with this c#@p.

[Indy Pendance]

IIRC, there was a part in one of the codes about falsifying information. I could be wrong, I'm not going to research it further. Until I see the constitutional amendment, Resident is safe.

[Indy Pendance]

In that respect, we live in one of the most conservative parts of the state. Oh, believe me, we'll be contacting him and the useless Kohl and Feingold. We have so many of these senator's canned letters, it's comical. They just insert the issue and mail it back to us. Wisconsin is pretty conservative, it's just Milwaukee and Madison screwing up this state, as you know.

[Bahbah]

it's just Milwaukee and Madison screwing up this state, as you know.

I had to smile at that. Yes, I know. I grew up north of Milwaukee (Sheboygan), graduated from UW Madison and then went to France to study and on to Berkeley, and yes, I am a conservative. Sometimes it amazes even me. I so enjoyed Sensenbrenner cutting off the mikes when the libs attempted to hijack his hearing.

[Indy Pendance]

We live pretty close to there. Sensenbrenner is a good man. You might get a kick out of this....

Grothman challenges Panzer in state Senate race (WI Conservative vs Rino sen. majority leader)

Grothman was our state Rep, challenging the state senate majority leader, a rino, over the taxpayers bill of rights, TABOR. She was our state senator. What drama....

heh heh heh, she got the snot beat out of her at elections.....

This is her consession press release....

Statement by [WI] Senate Majority Leader Mary E. Panzer (Rino resigns position after loss)

Now, Grothman, he's a big conservative, he'd make a great rep if Sensenbrenner left. They have almost the same district.

[porkchops 4 mahound]

As far as I know, the requirement "to respond" to the questions would be fulfilled by writing in "none of your frikkin bidness, beeeeyach!"

That's "a response" is it not?

I always write HUMAN in when "they" ask "race"?

[RightWhale]

James Madison might be surprised how far his innocent words have gone. The amazing thing is how far they have not yet gone.

[RightWhale]

within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct

This is typical.

They could likewise reduce the membership of the House to fifty, and if the states are eliminated as being superfluous, to one.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Required by law all they want. I won't fill it out and never have, never will.

[RightWhale]

They left absolute power in the USSC. The final word, the final authority to interpret the Constitution and construct as they see fit--constructionist justices.

Constructionist was not considered a necessarily beneficial attribute in context.