CENSUS QUESTIONS

Watch this and decide what answers you will expect from them and what they have no right to ask.

Laus Deo
overbore

 

No partial or mutilated forms allowed. No staples. Put a copy of the Constitution addressing the census questions in the envelope with it, with info the Constitution requires. Mail it back return receipt. You shouldn't hear from them, but you'll be on a list.

 

If those are the questions my answers will be;
1. 1
2. redundent question
3. see US Constitution
4. see 3. above
5. will print my full name
6. male
7. my D.O.B.
8. no
9. white
10. no

 

<Q></Q> Feb 16 2010
Fines can be Imposed
While it is the last thing they want to do, the U.S. Census Bureau can impose fines for failing to answer the 2010 Census questions or for intentionally providing false information.

According to Title 13, Section 221 (Census, Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers) of the United States Code, persons who fail or refuse to respond to the mail-back census form, or refuse to respond to a follow-up census taker can be fined up to $100. Persons who knowingly provide false information to the census can be fined up to $500.

So far the Census Bureau has offered no indication that it actually intends to charge violators or impose these fines, but if you fail to complete and return your 2010 Census questionnaire, a census-taker will be paying you a visit.

Personal Follow-up Visits
From April through July 2010, some 1.4 million census takers will make door-to-door visits to all households that failed to respond to the mail-back Census 2010 questionnaires. The Census worker will assist a member of the household -- who must be at least 15-years old -- in completing the Census 2010 survey form. Census workers can be identified by a badge and Census 2010 bag.

Privacy of Census Responses
Under federal law, all employees and officials of the Census Bureau are prohibited from sharing a person's personal information with anyone else, including welfare agencies, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Internal Revenue Service, courts, police and the military. Violation of this law carries penalties of $5,000 in fines and up to five years in prison.
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Let me see if I get this correct:
"IF" anyone refuses to answer the 2010 census they can be fined up to a whopping $100....?
But, if the census takers "release" any of the information they collect they can be fined and/or imprisoned...?
That being the case, what happens to all the illegals that refuse to answer the census...since there is NO real proof they are even here, or where they live from day to day...?
Yeah, ok it's working!
Say what?
My answers to the Census questionnaire:

1) Just the 5 of us: me, myself, and I, and 2 cats
2) my paranoid twin
3) It's a rent-a-tent!
4) I don't have/own one....
5) Tiger, Sundance, and me, or myself, or I
6) Not since my last divorce
7) 3 years, 2 1/2 years , and 58 years ("we" don't date!)
8) Not unless you count tabby, or german/cherokee mixes
9) Due to health issues, none of us are able to race....
10) Depends on if the cats have a night out or not!

 

ill probably just answer all of them, but #2 and #10 really call out to my inner smartass.

 

Last time around, I only answered the first question and sent the form in - never heard back from them.

Time before that I tossed it into the trash - never heard back from them then either.

This time, I will answer question 1 - that's all they need to know.

 

They feed the homeless twice a week here in McKenzie Park....They've had Census workers down there every time for over a month now...
They want all the information to make sure the City & County gets the proper funding based on people....They've even had a "call" out to the homeless via the local TV channels asking them to please seek out and talk to the Census workers...

Funny thing is...a lot of these people are running from warrants in other cities/states....and they damn sure don't want their name going on a form that they reside here...

 

I got a shock this afternoon....
Census takers hired from the nearest town from my land: 12 1/2 miles to the south, and with No roads, No street signs, No markers at all, and they showed up on my land! ( I thought I was isolated!) They followed his tire tracks right in!
They threatend to "arrest" my caretaker if he refused to fill out the form ???
Huh? ( I may NOT be gtiing the whole story there!)
Someone explain that one to me, PLEASE!
"ARREST"?
For not filing out a form, about living out in the middle of nowhere, and he still has california plates on his RV!
I don't know what to think....
Here on the north end of Phoenix, we have NOT seen anyone come through.

 

As you said, there may be alot more to the story than you know. Your caretaker is not me or you. You are getting this second hand. I would have asked for ID. I suspect these people were not Census takers at all, but maybe someone casing the place, and surprised to run into anyone, and that their bluster and threats was just so much smoke and mirrors for them. Just a thought...

 

Yep, don't sound like normal Census Drones. I'd be checking this out carefully!
Census drones don't have arrest powers - I'd be packing on the property, and letting the local cops know there are questionable people 'interested' in the property.

 

I had some fun with the census workers that came to my place last fall. I need to set the stage for this to make sense.

My family and 2 other families live 200 yards off of the main road. The main road is lined with ranch style houses on heavily wooded 2 acre lots, so you can't see our houses from the main road.

We share a gravel driveway that is in between two houses. Our driveway looks like a little road to get to the back of one of the houses. We're also in one of the black holes for cell service, you have to go up to the main road to get any signal at all.

I came home from work one afternoon and someone is walking up and down the road with what looks like one of those price check things from wal mart punching buttons on it. I pull down to my house walk back up and ask her if she's lost.

She says she's from the census and is trying to figure out who lives back here since we're not on any maps. I tell her we're not supposed to be on the map. She says no, you're here, I just can't get a good enough signal to get you to show up on the map. I tell her, you don't understand, we're not supposed to show up on your map. She says no I just can't get a good signal.

I tell her very slowly. We are not supposed to be on your map, we were placed here specifically because we wouldn't show up on any maps and winked at her. She said but if I could just get a, ohhh, ahh I understand. She punched a few buttons and left.

A couple of weeks later I came home from work and another guy was doing the same thing, walking up and down the road punching buttons on his price check thingy.

I pull down to my house and walk back up and ask him if he's lost. He says no he's a supervisor for the upcoming census and trying to figure out why the worker assigned to our area couldn't get us to show up on the map. I go through the same conversation I did with the previous worker. He says I still don't see why you wouldn't show up on the map.

I tell him obviously his security clearance isn't high enough and I'm not authorized to share anything else with him, turn around and start walking back down the drive. He calls after me and says well uhh what do I tell my supervisor. I tell him that I'm not authorized to answer that question and walk down to the house.

Haven't heard from or seen anyone since. I gotta figure I'm either being watched like a hawk or completely left alone.