You ever heard of pick your battles? What's the big deal. I'll save my energy and fighting for tax audits. And jury duty? WTF would you give up one of the most unique cherished rights ever?
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I resent the race question. How will we ever be equal if we still categorize each other?
I'm going to have serious issues with that long form.
Now that's a sensible reply. Goodonya!I think I'll put down I'm black this time...
My Census forms are going into the paper shredder, the same place my last Jury Duty notice went.
Hmmm, I've never filled one out in my life. I file it in that big round thing next to the REST of the Junk Mail I get... It's called the Trash Can...
The ACS is ridiculous. As far as I am concerned, they can have the number of people at my house and that is enough.
The entire premise of the ACS is a little misguided. The federal government needs to know about my plumbing so that the local government can plan the water system accordingly. Wait - wha? That's what blueprints are on file at city hall for. The data is already where it needs to be: at the local jurisdiction.
Same thing for what time you go to work. The feds don't need that data to plan fro traffic patterns. When they need to know local traffic patterns they put counters on the roads to get the real numbers. After all, the ACS responses aren't reliable enough to use for traffic planning anyways.
I'm not one to think the ACS is totally evil in intent, but I think it's fair to say that it is created for the amusement of demographers and state-minded "planning" types. They like to look at numbers to pretend their professions are important, and the legislators like to feed them data because having lots of bespectacled Ph.D.s "studying" society validates the idea that we need lots of government to control it.
Over the next 10 years random people will get the American Community Survey (second link below). At first it will be about half the people, and eventually everyone will receive one.
There is no way I will answer the American Community Survey.
A quick look at the questions asked are a clear indicator that the federal government is certainly collecting personal information that will be used against people and if you aren't capable of seeing that then you deserve your eventual fate.
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DJ
Would I go to jail if I organized a Census effigy burning party on Facebook (i.e. not be anonymous)?
Now, suppose someone writes the following response for each question:
"This question is intentionally not being answered."
(Note that this is very different from simply refusing to turn in a Census form.)
Now, on what basis could that individual be arrested, indicted, and convicted, as those "answers" cannot be revealed to law enforcement?
Clearly the answer is that the cleverly filled out survey will never reach the Census Bureau since it has to get halfway there first, and then it has to get halfway again...
I encourage you and anyone else to do what I have done with every census I have ever filled out: Check other and write in American.
That's brilliant because American is a race, not a nationality.
That's brilliant because American is a race, not a nationality.
I agree, but the census has Vietnamese and other listings under Race. At least my wife said so and she filled ours out last night.
She asked what to put our son under and I said usually theres a OTHER box and you write in White/Asian. But she said there was Vietnamese and others listed and used something like that for him.
But American to her means White. When she told her sister about me when we were dating she just said I was an American and they understood that to mean white.
No more brilliant than listing a selection of choices under Race that are nothing more than ethnic groups.
Is that because your sister-in-law thinks all Americans are white or because your wife would have said she is dating a 'black guy' instead of an 'American' if she had been dating an African American?
Yes I do think it is brilliant for them to try to get an accurate 'snapshot' of the state of our country as it exists today. I do not however think it is brilliant for ignorant fools to deliberately send in false information because they think it is 'witty' or 'trendy' or are just butthurt about the state of their current political party.
Is that because your sister-in-law thinks all Americans are white or because your wife would have said she is dating a 'black guy' instead of an 'American' if she had been dating an African American?
Yes I do think it is brilliant for them to try to get an accurate 'snapshot' of the state of our country as it exists today. I do not however think it is brilliant for ignorant fools to deliberately send in false information because they think it is 'witty' or 'trendy' or are just butthurt about the state of their current political party.
I'll fill out the census form, no problems with it. The American Community Survey NO. There is nothing in the constitution that says I have to give details like if I have a mortgage, how much is it, what degrees I have, where I worked last week, when I last served in the military, etc.
I get enough of that stuff from the IRS, I am not going to start acting like every government branch has the right to everything about me.
See the form here:
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/SBasics/acs_2010.htm
I'll fill out the census form, no problems with it. The American Community Survey NO. There is nothing in the constitution that says I have to give details like if I have a mortgage, how much is it, what degrees I have, where I worked last week, when I last served in the military, etc.
I get enough of that stuff from the IRS, I am not going to start acting like every government branch has the right to everything about me.
See the form here:
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/SBasics/acs_2010.htm
So basically you subscribe to the Al Gore definition of E pluribus unum and I the actual meaning. You fill it out your way, I will fill it out mine. There is nothing false about writing American as that is exactly what I am.