Hey, US Government?

[agilebrit]

I get that it's Very Very Important that I fill the census thing out and send it back to you.

In fact, I did it the day the thing arrived in the mail.

However, I'm quite miffed that you're spending my hard-earned tax dollars that could be better spent elsewhere to send me not ONE, but TWO letters letting me know, first of all, that the cursed

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[paulasj]

It's not only the numerous letters that I'm getting, but the tv ads for available jobs as a 2010 census worker.

In regards to the questionnaire itself, I got mind a few days ago. Then I read questions 1 and 2. I'm still scratching my head.

[agilebrit]

I...don't remember what those questions were. I just filled the damb thing out and sent it back like a Good Little Drone. I was sorely tempted, however, to check "Other" under "race" and put "American."

[fenchurche]

That's what I did. I'm of mixed heritage and sure, I could have "checked all that applied" but honestly? I don't see why they need to know that information in order to determine apportionment for elections.

[agilebrit]

Exactly. Why does it matter, exactly?

[hitchhiker_42]

Here in the South at least, they want that info so they can draw districts such that they have people of all one race in them, insofar as possible. They say that down here, people are represented better by congresscritters that look like them, but that doesn't apply in the more enlightened North, so they get square districts, or broken down by party, like would make sense.

Thus saith my gov't professor, though perhaps not quite as sarcastically as I have related here.

[zilly14]

I was tempted to put "human."

[agilebrit]

Hee, that too.

[foxybrownsgc]

That is EXACTLY what I did. Of course, after laughing hysterically at the 'Black, African-American, Negro' line.

Even further, I didn't provide my phone number. And if some Census worker comes to my house, I will tactfully tell them (unless they piss me off) that since I used to work for 'Fujikawa', and held a security clearance, I'm one their retired 'courtesans' so the US Govt knows all they need to know about me.

[paulasj]

Question #1: How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment, or mobile home on April 1, 2010?

Questions #2: Were there any additional people staying here April 1, 2010 that you did not include in Question 1?

I answered "refer back to question 1".