Posted on 06/22/2014 7:18:16 AM PDT by johniegrad
Thanks. I thought about phony entries (just to “F” with them) but was leery of some kind of federal statute about making false statements on official government documents. I considered just telling them to piss off but that just invites a hostile response (which I can handle but why invite it?).
I discovered long ago that passive aggressive is always the best policy when dealing with the gubmint. Don’t make yourself a target, don’t make yourself a martyr, just don’t cooperate.
An axiom I learned from my dad came in the form of a rhetorical question: “Do you have to get mad in order to get what you want?” Are you capable of maintaining an emotional detachment while engaging the enemy? Employing this principle has allowed me to turn the tables on bureaucrats and smug a-holes for years. Figure out ahead of time what your endgame is and never allow your opponent to drag you off your mark. Never give away an advantage (especially when they hold all the best cards!), never compromise your principles, and never give an inch.
More than ever we need to have strategies to survive encounters with an increasingly lawless and ruthless government.
They pick people at random, there’s no repercussions for junking it.
Yep I know about the FR Forum Seach function. Thanks.
Huh? This is not a census year.
What’s going on?
The census, as you know, is every 10 years. The idiots at the census bureau have to have something to do the other 9 years.
They pick people at random, theres no repercussions for junking it.
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The AC Survey is used to collect a lot of detailed demographic information.
That information is then sorted and compiled into different categories and sold to advertisers, telemarketers, businesses, etc., who use the zip codes, income levels, housing sizes and values, etc., to determine where to best open new stores/restaurants/franchises and otherwise hit their target customers.
(Sorry for that last loooong sentence.)
We got one with those types of questions, but in the fine print at the top of the page (IIRC) it said the survey was VOLUNTARY so when they showed up at the house when I was backing out of the driveway, I mentioned that, the guy agreed, so I told them we weren’t VOLUNTEERING to complete it. Not much he could say at that point & I was on my way.
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