Comments on: Census Officials to Americans: You Are Stupid and You Will Die Without Us

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:27:07 +0000

The author of this headline article may wish to edit the second paragraph to read “flawed document though it is,” rather than “thought it is.”

By: Unhappy American

Unhappy American — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:34:16 +0000

I didn’t fill it out at all…i’m leaving this sad country anyway.
My mom filled it out (for some untold and obviously sad reason, so I told her better you than me. The way I see it…there is no hope left for us as an American and it goes without saying that I’ll hopefully NOT be American soon.

By: Speedmaster

Speedmaster — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:18:02 +0000

When it comes to getting federal or even state funding I see only three scenarios:

1. Your community receives more in state/federal funding than it paid in taxes. In this scenario, you are stealing from people elsewhere.
2. You community receives less in state/federal funding than it paid in taxes. In this scenario, people elsewhere are stealing from you.
3. Your community receives exactly the same amount in in state/federal funding as it paid in taxes. In this scenario, wait for it, what’s the point? And this doesn’t even get into waste, patronage, and dead-weight losses.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:17:58 +0000

The whole census thing is a fraud. It’s supposed to count people for our representation in Congress, but no where does it ask if the people are citizens of the US (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/census-reaches-hispanics-illegal-immigrants/story?id=9761158). I got mine and I’m thinking about participating in the uprising; only filling out the first question.

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:55:15 +0000

Today I got mine, and Linda told me not to be a smartass by checking the “other” race box and filling in “human.”

I also resisted telling them I had an extra fifteen people living here, even though it seemed like that when my sister-in-law visited us over Christmas.

There was another question that was temporary baffiling: do you live anywhere else?

I doubt they want to cross-reference the New York/ West Palm beach voters, but I wonder about what they were asking.Do you mean I live in a hotel most of the time, and does that qualify me for one vote per state hotel night stay? Are those votes cumulative, and retroactive, like capital gains loss carryforewards?
I will remember my words as I look for a Scrabble bingo against my expert daughter.

By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:55:34 +0000

Yeah, I wretched when I got the same notice.

But Wintercow, the census determines not just the presents Nancy Pelosi sends you, but also congressional apportionment. You can bet Acorn will be double or triple counting everyone the run into under all bridges and overpasses from sea to shining sea. Please be counted, assuming you are a person and not a Holstein, though if you have a sire summary of +1800, you deserve to be double counted by Acorn. Remember, you and Mrs. Wintercow might make a difference in the makeup of the New York delegation to the House of Representatives.

Last night we watched Star Trek on TV, and I swear I saw an alien who looked just like Henry Waxman.