2010 Census Questions

[James B]

I hope that the Republicans continue to vote against all the bho BS, Thats what I hired them to do. Nothing can save our country faster than a complete failure of bho liberal crap egenda.

[nodog]

Originally Posted by James B

I hope that the Republicans continue to vote against all the bho BS, Thats what I hired them to do. Nothing can save our country faster than a complete failure of bho liberal crap egenda.

That just doesn't work in real life. Think about your own job, should you be paid for doing something similar? Nothing productive, just getting in the way?

I work for people, they want me to fix problems and I'm known for doing it. One thing they've said they like about me is I say "I can do that". They trust me to make things better, not keep them the same.

Worked for a doctor the other day that told me why he called me back to do more. I'd seen him on a Sunday and asked how the job I'd did for him on his roof was turning out. He said "it only leaks a little". When he got home that day he heard a noise on his roof, stepped outside and saw me there.

I've never spent penny one on traditional advertising and for almost twenty years have been 2 years behind in work. That's how it's done and I expect nothing less from the people I hire, even politicians. If I tell them there's a leak I don't want to hear how bad the situation is and it remain that way, I want it fixed and they are paid well to do it.

[C. Davis]

Originally Posted by nodog

That just doesn't work in real life. Think about your own job, should you be paid for doing something similar? Nothing productive, just getting in the way?

I work for people, they want me to fix problems and I'm known for doing it. One thing they've said they like about me is I say "I can do that". They trust me to make things better, not keep them the same.

Just curious nodog, since the Republicans are in no power whatsoever to control any agenda, just what "bho bs" are you hoping the Republicans vote yes on?

C. Davis

[Champlain Islander]

A census person just came and it took about 10 minutes to answer all the questions. Nothing on the form that caused me any alarm. I did have to give my name and DOB but that is all other than race.

[Knightia]

I may have to object on the form to the term white for me.( i like blue)

And the day the goverment stops using race & color based laws( hate crime laws) racial quotas, for defineng voting districts?, to hand out public moneys etc etc.Maybe the day i celebrate the MLK holiday.

Thought this was ( part of )a somewhat intresting story.
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http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010032...questions.html

The Race Question on the 2010 Census Raises Serious Questions
Written by John W. Whitehead - The Rutherford Institute
Saturday, 20 March 2010 00:32

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."--Martin Luther King Jr.


As for how the government defines race, it considers race to be "a self-identification data item in which respondents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify." In other words, according to the government, you are the race you choose to belong to. Such a subjective determination surely renders the race question useless until you get to what may be the Bureau's primary reason for keeping it in the questionnaire: "State governments use the data to determine congressional, state and local voting districts."
As if gerrymandering was not already bad enough, will 2010 Census data be used to carve out future congressional districts? Will African-American communities be matched with sitting African-American congressmen? Will nearby Hispanic neighborhoods not currently in the same district be lumped together in hopes of increasing Hispanic representation in Congress? If the information is being used toward drawing district boundaries, then obviously some race-related parameter or objective must be in play when drawing those district lines.
Lastly, other concerns have been raised about how the information collected by the government could be used. Specifically, concerns that Census answers might be used for racial profiling should not be lightly dismissed. Current law prohibits the release of Census Bureau data on individuals. However, that could easily change.
We have already witnessed a drastic erosion in protections for personal and private information as foreign and domestic security threats have grown over the past decade. Thus, what is to say that five years from now, the government won't present an equally compelling (in their eyes) argument for obtaining an individual's answers to the Census? Furthermore, even if other agencies of the government never gain access to an individual's specific answers, the data released by the Census Bureau can easily be used for community-based racial profiling, resulting in both programs and law enforcement efforts being targeted at certain racial populations. For those who suggest that this could not happen in America, one has only to study the history books. In 1943, the Census Bureau released the names and other information on ***anese-Americans to the War Department, which helped the government round up these Americans citizens and place them in internment camps. Many were imprisoned for the duration of World War II.
For a nation trying to step away from any lasting remnants of racism, asking people to classify themselves in terms of race and then using those answers to define boundaries for representation is a very strange way to go about reaching that goal. In fact, at a time when the nation is split along so many different lines--from politics to race to economics, should the government really continue to sow seeds of discord and segregation? As Martin Luther King Jr. urged more than 40 years ago, isn't it time to stop judging us by the color of our skin?
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Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute.

[Wub]

Here's an interesting read; it highlights several past privacy violations by the Census bureau:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/...s-stay-private