Are ya'll being nice to ....

So, MK, will you be leading them in the Census cheer...

"2, 4, 6, 8...

...Everyone Enumerate!"

 

So some of the census "data" is going to be based on asking neighbors the questions?

For real?

Questions about race?

Questions about relationship of household members?

Questions about mortgages and rent and who knows what else?

Shades of George Orwell.

And this is brought to us by the same people that are upset about Arizona asking illegal immigrants to show a drivers license. :laugh:

 

The census workers are profiling

 

Or at least McCarthyism.

I can just see it now: "Have your neighbors every expressed disagreement with the policies of the government? Do they belong to any organizations that express disagreements or unhappiness with government policies? What is you neighbor's opinion of Emperor Obama?"

Yep. Gotta love liberal hypocrisy, don't you?

They're also the same people who claim that the Constitution gives a woman the right to "privacy" when it comes to killing her baby, but not when it comes to choosing not to reveal information the government wants but has no business asking.

Liberals claim to love America, but they hate the individual liberties America was founded upon.

 

I think it's more like: "Two, Four, Six, Eight, liberty evaporate!"

 

My Life as a Fed, Part I

I decided to make a list of all of the crazy things that have happened to me as a Census employee:

- I had someone tell me that the Census is against the Constitution.

- I've never seen so much paperwork in my life. For one apartment complex where there was an error in the address list that listed the wrong house number, I had to fill out 33 EQs deleting the wrong addresses, and then fill out more paperwork to add the correct ones. And then I had to do a D-225 explaining why I did that.

- I had a shady apartment manager in the ghetto offer me a beer and he offered to hook me up with a hooker. Needless to say, I declined on both counts. He also told me to not go to one apartment and to not ask him about it. He also told me that he got a sexually transmitted disease from a Census employee when he was a teenager.

Other Census people- I'd like to hear your crazy experiences. Remember, don't post anyone's names, locations, or other PII or Title 13 information. Also, how does your crew handle bad neighborhoods? I tend to get a lot of assignments in those areas because I'm a guy. In one case, this lady had a binder with mostly decent houses with part of it in a bad area. For the ones in the bad area, my CL is having me accompany her because they aren't about to send a 5' 4" woman in her 70s into the ghetto by herself.

 

33 EQs ?

D-225 ?

PII ?

Title 13 ?

Dude, you have become quite the low level government bureaucrat !! :laugh:

I can see that you have a future career here.

Which is the more attractive feature to you ?

Being paid more than the job is worth ?

The feeling of petty power over complete strangers?

The chance to report complete strangers to government authorities on a whim?

 

Did they tell you that the idea of a census is against the Constitution, or did they point out that the census, in its current form, is Unconstitutional?

 

And of course, we know that not to be true. But I doubt our Founding Fathers envisioned the intrusiveness of what our censuses (Censii? Sen-sei?) have become over the last few years.

Ah, the world of government. And people wonder why it takes them a billion dollars to do anything. No wonder we're going broke as a country.

Let the record show that I did not make a joke here...although, believe me, the opportunity was there.

That does illustrate one issue: Census work ain't always the safest thing to do. Stay safe.

 

EQ= enumerator questionnaire
D-225= InfoComm, form we use to report things
PII= personally identifiable information
Title 13 Information= sealed under federal law

I'm getting fifteen bucks an hour, which is good pay, but I'm not exactly getting rich here.

We can't report anything to anyone except sworn Census Bureau employees with a need to know.

 

I don't question your integrity, paul, but it's that "need to know" caveat that is so indicative of why many of us distrust government.

 

How about, is the Census worker being nice to y'all?

This one asked some "extra" questions on his calls:
KVTV-5 News Video

Census burro-crat/spokewoman Sydnee Chatin-Reynolds said only:

 

You still haven't demonstrated that they have a need to know this information.

 

Yes, I have. You have ears and refuse to hear.

 

No you haven't. You haven't given one Constitutionally supported reason why the government "needs" this information.

I'm still waiting for you to explain why the government needs to know the details of a transaction between a private individual and his bank, or what provision in the Constitution gives the government the authority to snoop into these things.

 

The US government uses this information in order to know what to do. The government could choose to operate completely blind (not that we would be able to tell a huge difference at times), or it could just guess. Or our representatives could just wheel and deal for the best they can get for their districts no matter how few are in it or how low the needs actually are.

Instead of this the government uses the data collected by the Census to know all kinds of things. How many people live in an area. The general ages of an area. Whether a particular area is growing or shrinking in population. How many people are in a mortgage and owe money on their homes. The racial makeup of the population of an area which could be used to better gage the needs of these people. How many people are permanent residents and how many are transient. The general number of adopted and Foster children in an area. The number of single parent households in an area. The number of non-English speakers in an area.

None of this may matter much to you, and you have the right to refuse to answer anything asked of you, but something will be recorded in order to fulfill the mandate of the Constitution. While getting whatever information that can be gotten though other sources is not preferred, it will be gotten regardless. There is no malice involved in the mater... the Census is ordered to go and record, period.

Paul brought up some good points, though. As Census workers, all are sworn in just like a deputy or something. All information is to remain confidential. The only reason one would share information with another Census worker besides your crew leader would be to better inform someone who was going to visit a place you had already been or something along those lines. We may talk about our experiences, but we cannot divulge any PII (personally identifiable information) whatsoever. Anything that contains PII that is not an official and completed EQ must be shredded and destroyed according to government standards.

I had a real problem with the Census at first, but after going through the training and better understanding the process and reasons behind it I no longer have any problem with it at all. I know the information will be compiled into statistics and then used to better help the government do its job... even if I don't necessarily agree with the job it is doing or who is calling the shots for it.

 

I am currently on a "leave of absence" from my work because my first two paychecks were not correctly deposited into my account. I have spent the past 10 days or so trying to get this straightened out, but have been unsuccessful so far. :BangHead:

 

About what?

And how many of the things our representatives are "wheeling and dealing" for are actually supported under the Constitution?

Why does my representative need to know personal details about my family and my finances in order to "wheel and deal". What I find so hypocritical about this is that under any other circumstance, the government would have to get a subpoena to look at such information precisely because it's considered private and to keep the government from misusing it, but when it comes to the census, I'm just supposed to hand it over and be happy about doing it.

And why does the government need to know these things?

And what "needs" that you claim are based on race would those be?

And what business is any of this of the government's?

To do what with, exactly?

So, if there's no malice involved, why don't you explain your comments about about the government's alleged "need" for race-based information.

Well, as someone who loves and cherishes the Constitution, as well as being someone who remembers how precious liberty was, I do.

And what is their job? What does race have to do with the government's job?

I see. So then, you don't agree with it, but you're taking part in it anyway? I think they call that being a hypocrite.