Comments on: Dem oppo-research firm fills in Bachmann’s U.S. Census form for her

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:14:27 +0000

The reason why it’s so hard for Michele to complete her census form is because she’s actually a 300 year old vampire.

By: Mill

Mill — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:05:07 +0000

As others have noted, your credit card company – who seeks profits, not your enhanced general welfare and is not responsive to you through the ballot box – probably has more private and potentially harmful information about you than the government. And it’s use of that information is not as tightly restricted as access to census data is.

It’s a bit late to freak out about loss of privacy through census data collection. It’s like – when carrying a shipping trunk, saying the burden is too great when a fly lands on the trunk as you struggle along. The census fly is hardly the problem in my view

By: Glynis

Glynis — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:57:16 +0000

Why are they perpetuating the myth about the census questions? On the census website it says: “The 2010 Census will be a short-form only census and will count all residents living in the United States as well as ask for name, sex, age, date of birth, race, ethnicity, relationship and housing tenure – taking just minutes to complete. “

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:56:53 +0000

I worked the 2000 Census following up on people who did not return their form on time. In 2000, a small percentage of people received the “long form” which is what the pdf shows (I don’t remember the exact percentage so I won’t throw out a guess). Most people got the “short form” which had far fewer questions. The short form is a breeze.

The long form is a pain in the butt, for the person unlucky enough to get it and for the Census worker having to follow up. If Bachmann wanted to argue that the form was a burden to complete because of its length, I might find myself agreeing with her for the first time in history. No, she’d rather “do the wacky” than be rational.