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February 24: Citizens Census Alert! Here are some very interesting questions posed regarding the depth of questioning involved in the latest 2010 Census. Think about just how much of your personal information you are constitutionally required to divulge to those government reps who show up, clipboards in hand, on your front step. Watch and Listen.


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Billy on Mar 02, 2010 at 00:26 am:
    This is yet another distorted, hyperbolic, and paranoid piece of content that doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

    The depth of the questions on the 2010? Is this supposed to be some sort of change? Take a look at the questions on the 1940 census and see if you think it similarly conspiratorial to this year's: htp://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/items1940.shtmlWe're hardly entering a new era of government curiosity in the census.

    Perhaps every one of this guy's questions that he believes the government keeps secret lest they reveal their true enslaving nature are answered clearly on htp://2010.census.gov/2010census/. That site by the way shows the most common census form (the short form), and it's a lot less involved than the 1940 form was.

    ''You may know that the constitution allows the government to count us once every ten years,'' the alarmist in the video says. ''For some reason, the Census Bureau has started collecting information every year.'' Well, the Constitution actually says they need to do it AT LEAST every ten years but it doesn't limit it to that. Anyway, it's only a small subset of people from whom information is drawn more often for the purpose of understanding trends and therefore needs of communities. Where to build the hospital? Where to invest in power plants? Where to stimulate jobs? This comes from the intermediate surveys. And where, the alarmists ask, does the government find in the Constitution the right to do this?

    The Constitution says is Section 8 ''The Congress shall have Power To ... provide for the ... general Welfare of the United States'' and then says it has the power ''To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers.''

    So let's get over it. The information now collected is substantially the same as it has been for decades, and its done by laws that are supported directly by the constitution.

    Obama may turn the stomachs of some for whatever reason, but it's strange that all of a sudden everything the government during his presidency does seems to be anathema even though it's substantially in line with what has been happening for decades including under republican presidents.
Mary Arnquist on Mar 02, 2010 at 2:01 pm:
    Yes, some of the questions are intrusive. We got tagged for an off-year survey last fall and it was quite a chore to complete.

    BUT have you ever experienced the thrill of finding an ancestor on an old census record? And getting the names of all their children and where they were born and such? When I was in nursing school, I used 2000 Census data for several projects. The data is great fodder for economists, statisticians, etc. and is improtant on many levels. See www.nctcog.org/ris/census/ for census data at work. I just got hired to work for the Census. I want to be able to say I was a part of it. My daughter-in-law, Melissa, has been working for the 2010 Census for nearly a year.

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