How many census workers were employed the last time the US did a census?
These Census workers will run out of work this Summer and will be back in the unemployment line. What kind of numbers juggling will the Administration do to account for that.
550,000 CENSUS WORKERS???? OMG!! That seems totally wrong.
This article with information provided by ACORN buster, James O’ Keefe is instructive ...
Waste, fraud and abuse at 2010 Census
Waste, fraud and abuse continues at the 2010 Census. This week’s stories by Big Government’s James O’Keefe and the New York Post’s John Crudele deserve discussion. Is anyone in Congress listening?
In my May 25th RedState post (”Waste, fraud and abuse at 2010 Census (the most expensive in history)”), I pointed out that the 2000 Census had cost $6.5 billion, while the 2010 Census seems to be heading to at least $15 billion–over twice as much. Wasteful hiring practices were told to Rush Limbaugh and to New York Post business writer John Crudele, who wrote two stories about it. More people were trained than were needed, people were hired and fired and then re-hired and re-trained (counting as two jobs), There
was much duplication of the counting process–inefficiency everywhere!
This is James O’Keefe’s report on the Census for Big Government:
Undercover Census Fraud Investigation – New Jersey
by James O’Keefe
Posted Jun 1st 2010 at 3:22 am in Census, Featured Story, Media Criticism | Comments (296)
On April 27, 2010, I got a job with the United States Census Bureau in New Jersey. With a hidden camera, I caught four Census supervisors encouraging enumerators to falsify information on their time sheets. Over the course of two days of training, I was paid for four hours of work I never did. I was told to take a 70 minute lunch break, was given an hour of travel time to drive 10 minutes, and was told to leave work at 3:30pm. I resigned prior to doing any data collection but confronted Census supervisors who assured me, “no one is going to be auditing that that level,” and “nobody is going to be questioning it except for you.” Another Census supervisor only said he’d adjust my pay after I gave him a letter recanting my hours.
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Not only do they plump the job count, but there have been several reported cases of them firing and rehiring the same person and counting both hires as new jobs.
Don't know why "economists" would think that. Money has to be pulled out of the economy to pay government employees so they can put the money back into the economy. That may provide briefly inflated employment numbers, but it can hardly be described as a "lift."
thankfully, the markets are no longer responding in a positive fashion to his artificial numbers. The bubble that would create would just make matters worse when reality hits.