Posted on 03/17/2010 4:32:42 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
I know this is a lengthy post, but it is incredibly educational. If nothing else, please scroll down towards the bottom and read the last several paragraphs that detail my plan of attack [To all IRS/DHS listening, that means "non-violent response"] when my Census Form arrives. Print it out and use it as a template for yourself!
I recently heard someone say the time has come for some civil disobedience and the intrusive nature of the Census makes it the perfect place to start. I could not agree more. The American people need to draw a line in the sand and tell the reprobates in the federal government we will no longer tolerate their usurpations of power.
If the American people are going make a stand and go toe to toe with the federal government, then they need a basic understanding of some constitutional principles because these principles are universal and pertain to every power exercised by the federal government.
Constitutional Principles
Principle No. 1. The Constitution established a separation of power between the States and their federal government. James Madison explained this principle in Federalist Essay No. 45:
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people; and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.
(Excerpt) Read more at truthistreason.net ...
Easy. Just say it was never delivered. Lost in the mail. OTOH, with the double counting in certain ethic neighborhoods, not participating leads to money and congressional representation shifts.
I answered the first question and mailed it back. What is so complicated that it takes hundreds or thousands of words?
I circled the part in the top left that said they were required to count people.
Then I listed those of us who live here. Ta Da! I met the constitutional requirement. Licked the flap, sent it back.
Oh, and our “race” is “American”, except my daughter the Anthropology major who asked to be “Homo Sapiens.”
Gee it would be unfortunate if Conservatives in liberal-land had their Censuses lost.
Then those Liberal districts would show fewer people, would receive less representation, federal pork, etc.
Cryin’ shame, it would be.
It's funny you should mention that. I live in New Jersey, in a town that used to be part of a nearby, larger town. I moved here 30 years ago, and the new town was already incorporated and is the correct name for my zip code. The Census Bureau, in its infinite wisdom, sent my form to the correct zip code (that's always been the same) but still lists the larger town as the city on the envelope. And these guys are going to manage our health care?
As someone once said about something else bad here...
“Just give them the bird...and move on”!!
You should not refuse to participate unless you live in a Blue State.
Stupid question but why is a census needed anyhow, other than to abstractly count the sheer number of unregistered illegial immigrants in the US, when the IRS can provide the necessary information that is largely being asked in the Census?
To each their own I guess. I answered my form completely and honestly. Even included my actual phone number. Sorry, but my job requires a security clearance that I'm not going to risk in a pissing contest with the Census Bureau.
I received the short form and thought this isn’t worth making any fuss about. (If you did your taxes you told them a hell of a lot more than this. Pick a worthwhile battle.)
I will participate because I live in a red area of a red state. If I lived in a blue area of a blue state I would not participate. As far as I am concerned it is as simple as that.
Big deal over nothing.
Fill the damn thing out and mail it back! Jeez, live is too short to fight every damn thing...
Yup. The article was written by a moron for morons.
Short form is basic info this year, not unnecessarily intrusive at all, and I have no problem filling it out completely.
My descendants will love me for it 100 years from now, as I’ve enjoyed learning from old census records about the family that came before me.
A census is a constitutional mandate. Those who refuse to participate in the basic count is costing their state representation in Congress. Ponder that before you decide to sit it out.
Were there a long form, I would likely refuse to answer all but the basic questions.
Sent them your DNA on the flap?
I used to refuse to comply with the census; and the hispanics and blacks now are heading to outnumbering whites in this country.
Now I have discovered that my abode is home to an even dozen people - coincidentally, the same number that there are lines on the form.
And every one of them is white, and here legally.
Who knew?
BTW, read your form carefully: it says that nothing you put down there can be used against you in court.
I hope you did not send it in already! Because if your security clearance depends on truthful answers on the census form then you could not answer question 1 & 2 until after April 1 !!!!
I answered all the questions except the one about whether or not I own my house. I can’t find anything in the Constitution that makes that any of their business. The rest of the questions weren’t all that intrusive.
may as well fill it out..they can get all the info they need anyway from facebook and google.
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