According to Glenn Beck and Michelle Bachmann, if you are American and fill out the census, you are insuring bad things will happen becuse.....

A) some President used it, during World War II, to send Japanese Americans to internment camps.

B) you are helping to imposing a socialist-fascist-communist-totalitarian-Marxist police state.

and not to fill it out because......

the Census is just part of the "modern day slave state." or something like that.

http://www.politicususa.com/en/Bachmann-Beck

http://stopbeck.com/2010/03/10/glenn-beck-says-the-census-is-an-attempt-to-increase-slavery/

Pssssst.......

My fellow American neighbors, wanna reallllllllly peeve Beck and Bachmann off, fill out the Census papers, mailed to you.

It's the very least, that you can do.

;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZS9UW0okY4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56DpgM0F9io

By the way, does Beck really believe the words coming out of his mouth?

;D

we got ours in the mail, and I have not looked at it yet, however, if there are personal privacy questions that are nobodies business but mine on the questionnaire, then I believe that will make my mood most foul.

we got ours in the mail, and I have not looked at it yet, however, if there are personal privacy questions that are nobodies business but mine on the questionnaire, then I believe that will make my mood most foul.


I got mine.  All it asked was name, address, age, and if you want you can fill out the white/black/hispanic part, of all the people in the house, and whether you own or rent.  All this stuff is out there anyway on the city census.

I hope no one in Bachman's district fills it out because them she will lose her seat.

I got mine.  All it asked was name, address, age, and if you want you can fill out the white/black/hispanic part, of all the people in the house, and whether you own or rent.  All this stuff is out there anyway on the city census.


Yeah, didn't strike me as anything I hadn't already to some other organisation already (school, Girl Scouts, gym, doctor etc.)

What Bachmann said was so nutty it's off the charts.  I thought Minnesotans had more sense than to elect a crackpot like her, but maybe next time they won't.

Beck, on the other hand, said so totally vile racist things indicating the government wants to know your race because the feds are out there just looking for Blacks and Hispanics to give more welfare to!  "You're worth more if you're a minority than if you're White," he said.  I swear that guy could make even the Dalai Lama bitch slap him!
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It was far-right conservatives always tooting about being "Constitutionalist."  Well, the U.S. Constitution says the citizens of the United States shall be counted every ten years. 

Glenn Beck doesn't want some people to count in the counting, if you know what I mean.
::)

I hope no one in Bachman's district fills it out because them she will lose her seat.


That would be ironic!

;D

Actually one of my roommates had a interesting take on the idea...

He mentioned that Jesus once said....

"Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and give unto God, what is God's."

We know that Michelle Bachmann gets her messages from the Mother Ship-I think Glenn Beck probably gets them from there, too.



Cat

Just from a purely genealogical standpoint, please fill out your census forms and mail them back in.  Someday your ancestors will thank you.  :)

We did get two letters from the Census telling us that we are going to receive a letter from the Census.  :D ;D ;D ;D



Cat

I got mine.  All it asked was name, address, age, and if you want you can fill out the white/black/hispanic part, of all the people in the house, and whether you own or rent.  All this stuff is out there anyway on the city census.
I'll check mine tonight. if that's all that's asked then no problemo, except the spanish or hispanic. that part confuses me  :-\\  I'm not 100% sure what I am  :D 

I'll check mine tonight. if that's all that's asked then no problemo, except the spanish or hispanic. that part confuses me  :-\\  I'm not 100% sure what I am  :D 



For race, I like to put "human."  :D ;D ;D ;D



Cat

I haven't got my census yet. :-\\

we got ours in the mail, and I have not looked at it yet, however, if there are personal privacy questions that are nobodies business but mine on the questionnaire, then I believe that will make my mood most foul.


If it really bugs you, just lie.

I mean really...  the government doesn't give a @#$% about your personal details other than for things like reapportionment of the Congress.

All this nonsense from Beck and Bachmann seems to ignore the fact that the government doesn't usually care about the needs of the average person, so why would they care about how many kids you have other than for allotment of representatives?

Besides, if anyone thinks the Census is invasive, they should look into what corporations do with your information in mailing lists or how credit agencies are so careless that they will often mix up your rating with info on people with the same name as yours.

Privacy died a long time ago.

We did get two letters from the Census telling us that we are going to receive a letter from the Census.  :D ;D ;D ;D



Cat


So did we!

According to Glenn Beck and Michelle Bachmann, if you are American and fill out the census, you are insuring bad things will happen becuse.....

A) some President used it, during World War II, to send Japanese Americans to internment camps.
B) you are helping to imposing a socialist-fascist-communist-totalitarian-Marxist police state.


A) True.  (But it doesn't matter, because the Government doesn't need Census data to do that anymore.)
B) No.  (Because, pick your least-favorite -ist, we're already one of those, with or without the Census)

Me?  I fill the thing out because the Bureau of the Census is one of the few things the Federal government does that really is Consitutional.

"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by ((oops, lemme skip over a really embarassing bug that was fixed by the Fourteenth Amendment, and say we just count)) Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they ((Congress)) shall by Law direct. "
 - Article 1, Section 2, Constitution of the United States, which Bachmann (turn her over, drive!) and Beck (who probably didn't rape and murder a young girl in 1990) obviously haven't read.

The US Constitution authorizes Congress to create something akin to the Bureau of the Census, and requires it to run a census every ten years.  Now, I may or may not be on some list somewhere because I may or may not have checked "Other (please specify): HUMAN" as my race, but that doesn't change the fact that the Census is constitutional.  It's right there, in as plain as English was in the 18th century, in the Supreme Law of the Land, even before the later additions about freedom of speech and the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

So..... Does this mean that Beck thinks that puppies, kitties, and bunnies, are also evil?

::)

Just from a purely genealogical standpoint, please fill out your census forms and mail them back in.  Someday your ancestors will thank you.  :)


This.  I found a lot of info on my ancestors because they did the census.

Ours was pretty straightforward (how many people live here, names, ages, male/female, ethnicity, if we rent/own), but I love filling in the ethnicity part for me and Jason.  Melting pot, indeed.

For race, I like to put "human."  :D ;D ;D ;D



Cat
;D purrfect


If it really bugs you, just lie.

I mean really...  the government doesn't give a @#$% about your personal details other than for things like reapportionment of the Congress.

All this nonsense from Beck and Bachmann seems to ignore the fact that the government doesn't usually care about the needs of the average person, so why would they care about how many kids you have other than for allotment of representatives?

Besides, if anyone thinks the Census is invasive, they should look into what corporations do with your information in mailing lists or how credit agencies are so careless that they will often mix up your rating with info on people with the same name as yours.

Privacy died a long time ago.
true, privacy isn't what we think it is, but it's one thing when a corp uses info it got it's hands on, and another when I write it down and mail it in and provide  . it should be how many in your household, ages and that's it.

Just from a purely genealogical standpoint, please fill out your census forms and mail them back in.  Someday your ancestors will thank you.   :)


Yeah!  I have been able to trace more of my ancestry and found out alot through the census. Some census are more revealing than others, this one is way more basic than ones in the past.

Yeah!  I have been able to trace more of my ancestry and found out alot through the census. Some census are more revealing than others, this one is way more basic than ones in the past.


Yeah, I thought so too.  I had filled out my family's census from 2000.  Weird how much has changed in my situation since then.  In 2000 I was living at home in Ohio with my husband, mom, dad and brother.  Just ten years later I have a different husband and am living in a different state and have no idea (nor care really) where my ex-husband is.  My ancestors would just love me.  lol

Yeah, I thought so too.  I had filled out my family's census from 2000.  Weird how much has changed in my situation since then.  In 2000 I was living at home in Ohio with my husband, mom, dad and brother.  Just ten years later I have a different husband and am living in a different state and have no idea (nor care really) where my ex-husband is.  My ancestors would just love me.  lol


I'm the "whatever happened to that guy?" guy!
;D