Anybody Else Thinking of Not Filling Out Whole Census Form?

[Anonymous]

I'm not thrilled about selecting AA, Black or Negro what idiot approved this question, but I'll fill it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:21:19 I simply wrote son and/ or daughter were applicable on the side of the paper and refused to check adopted or biological. If they want to throw it out, so be it. We don't differentiate in our home.

A census taker might stop by your home if the form is incomplete.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not thrilled about selecting AA, Black or Negro what idiot approved this question, but I'll fill it out.

They added Negro after a large number of respondents in the 2000 census self-identified that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not thrilled about selecting AA, Black or Negro what idiot approved this question, but I'll fill it out.

They added Negro after a large number of respondents in the 2000 census self-identified that way.

There is a gentleman who owns a theater in our neighborhood (a historic structure he wants to tear down, but that's a different story). In at least two public meetings he has emphatically pointed out that he is not Black -- he points at his skin and says "I am Colored." He is in his eighties and predates Negro, Black, Afro-American, and African American!

[Anonymous]

hmmm. I returned mine, but I only even saw the questions on age, race, gender..... did I miss the detailed questions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not thrilled about selecting AA, Black or Negro what idiot approved this question, but I'll fill it out.

They added Negro after a large number of respondents in the 2000 census self-identified that way.

Well a larger population didn't like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not thrilled about selecting AA, Black or Negro what idiot approved this question, but I'll fill it out.

They added Negro after a large number of respondents in the 2000 census self-identified that way.

Well a larger population didn't like it.

Yes but they want to be able to count everybody and how you self-identify is important to that end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Come on, folks! The questions were minimal, much less compared to censuses in history (I frankly was a little disappionted). Results about individuals are sealed for 72 years. It's a great tool for future historians and genealogists, say in 100 years, to be able to look us up and find out a little about us. As a genealogist, I LOVE looking back at all the rich details of my ancestors and their neighbors in the 1800s. Depending on the year, some censuses asked about literacy, birth countries of both parents, occupations and how many months unemployed in a given year, how many months attended schools in that year, whether or not a person is a veteran, what home is worth, how many years one had been married, how many children one has had and how many are living, etc.

The data gathered today is only able to be researched in aggregates for the next 72 years (i.e. no info. about individuals), so say for statistical research by sociologists. Of course the whole purpose is for congressional allocations. Beyond that, the info. is SO rich for learning about our society today, percentage of families with an adopted child (like mine!), nationalities, etc.

I filled mine out and sent it in the same day I got it! I find it very exciting to be able to do it, knowing how much fun I've had doing research on censuses of the past. Go onto ancestry.com or walk into the National Archives downtown and take a look at some 1860 census microfilm. Better yet, go find your family in the early census, and you'll see why it's so great to have this snapshot of a family in time. You can see addresses your great-great grandparents lived at, where they moved over time, who may have shared a home with them at various times, their occupations, etc.

I agree with ya and I enjoyed every minute of it...i should get a life I guess!

[Anonymous]

Still curious about the nefarious gov't uses OP mentioned. What are people really afraid of? Have you ever worked at Dept of Comm? Trust me. You're safe.

[Anonymous]

I decided weeks ago not to complete the census. It's an ill-timed reminder of Government's intrusion into my home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Still curious about the nefarious gov't uses OP mentioned. What are people really afraid of? Have you ever worked at Dept of Comm? Trust me. You're safe.

Seriously. The IRS knows more about you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I decided weeks ago not to complete the census. It's an ill-timed reminder of Government's intrusion into my home.

Not filling it out cuts the federal money to your jurisdiction. If you live in DC, your decision is hurting me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I decided weeks ago not to complete the census. It's an ill-timed reminder of Government's intrusion into my home.

So for the last eight years the government has been rolling back restrictions on domestic surveillance, all our financial transactions are tracked and reported back, credit bureaus know just about everything we drive, own, rent or buy along with details about all of our family members -- and sell it to random people over the Internet, where you routinely divulge just about anything as long as someone is your "friend", you give much more detail about your life in every tax return, and THIS obligation that dates back to the signing of the constitution itself is what you are worried about?

Sorry, in this world saying I'm a Korean-american with two adopted children is hardly an invasion of privacy. It is probably just a peek at the photo album you sent to fifty people and posted on Facebook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I decided weeks ago not to complete the census. It's an ill-timed reminder of Government's intrusion into my home.

So for the last eight years the government has been rolling back restrictions on domestic surveillance, all our financial transactions are tracked and reported back, credit bureaus know just about everything we drive, own, rent or buy along with details about all of our family members -- and sell it to random people over the Internet, where you routinely divulge just about anything as long as someone is your "friend", you give much more detail about your life in every tax return, and THIS obligation that dates back to the signing of the constitution itself is what you are worried about?

Sorry, in this world saying I'm a Korean-american with two adopted children is hardly an invasion of privacy. It is probably just a peek at the photo album you sent to fifty people and posted on Facebook.

I like this.

[Anonymous]

PP, I don't have any debt, I don't use Facebook, and I only report what I have to on my tax return because I have to (the Supreme Court has said that we have to pay income taxes). The "nefarious" purposes for which the government wants the additional information required on the census form plainly include GERRYMANDERING to benefit favored political interest groups, and that's not right ... not to mention unconstitutional, if it's based on race, and divvying up my hard-earned tax dollars to distribute to other people. I've had enough. The harder I can make it for them, the better. If it's not consitutonally required (and nobody has proved on this forum or elsewhere that it is) to answer anything beyond how many people live in your house, then I am not happy answering. But I will probably answer anyway because we are already slouching inexorably towards socialism.