Months ago we filled out our 2010 Census form. My family included only the Constitutionally mandated information on the enumeration of persons living at our Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania residence. We did not hear a peep from the Census about our audacity to not submit to their demands for senseless data. That was, until just about two weeks ago.
It was then, with the Census winding down, that we received a visit from a lady claiming to represent the federal government looking for data. I told her that we already participated as we stood next to my Toomey for Senate and FairTax yard signs. She said that the Census had us marked down as not having returned our form. I told her again that we had already participated, given the information required of us and added that the federal government’s inability to keep track of paperwork is not my concern. I went inside and shut the door on her.
The next day there was a hand written note from the lady begging us to give her a few minutes to answer questions. We threw it in the trash.
Last week we got our first phone call from some man whose voice was so garbled that it was hard to make out what he wanted but again, after some straining to understand his words, he was from the Census. We ignored him.
And we plan to continue defying the Census workers trying to call on us. Just FYI.
But here is something I have discovered from talking to other people who, like my family, refused to answer all sorts of intrusive questions the government has no real need of answers to. It seems that if you only answered the question of enumeration that your Census form becomes “lost” by the government at a staggering rate. Out of 32 people (my own family included) who I have talked to and who answered only the enumeration question, 27 of us have been visited by Census workers claiming our forms were not returned. That’s just a tick shy of 85%.
To get the numbers on the other side, and to see if this is a general trend where incompetent government loses forms regardless of how many questions were answered at the same rate, I have talked to 56 people who actually filled out all the data on the Census form. The number of these people who got a knock on their door from Census workers claiming that their returned form was lost was a staggering … wait for it … one. That is right. Just one person out of this group has been contacted thus far with the same excuse. That is just a hair short of 2%.
Do you see the same thing as I do here? The same thing that causes me to think that, like usual, the federal government is lying to us?
And you people in Washington wonder why we out here in America don’t trust you? You are so willing to lie to us just to try and trick us into doing something we don’t want to do (give you more info about our households than you need to do your jobs) that it is pathetic.
Keep sending the Census workers. I’ll keep turning them away.
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