I can expect Obama's jack-booted thugs any day now.
I mailed in my census papers and they still came to my house to ask the same questions.
That being said, I guess I don`t understand all the hate for the census. I`m not telling them anything they don`t already know and the door knockers are just peeps tryin to do their crappy job.
I agree, just answer and send them on their way. And why are we answering the door heavily armed when we know its the unarmed cencus worker doing their job.
I know whos at the door before they ever see me, I dont answer it with penis compensation.
Perhaps they haven't paused to consider the fact that the "unarmed" person they are trying to intimidate may be neither intimidated, nor unarmed?
I wonder if those who are being visited are the same ones who were so proud of sending in incomplete information!
I have a very good friend who is a retired mental health worker. He did the census thing just to get out of the house and make a few extra bucks for a while. When he went to the training he found out most of the people there were unemployed and just looking for work. Sure, some of them might get a little pushy since they are now "G-men" but then it seems some folks here are the same way because a G-man or G-woman came to their door. As for trying to intimidate you.............Geez. You must be easily intimidated if a person just trying to do a job sets you on edge!
I pity the Girl Scout cookie seller who may knock on your door!
Or the brown shirts coming to take your guns, or an individual who is demanding information that is none of their business? Just because they can? Sorry.... or maybe is't just those poor folks selling whatever they're selling. It's not my fault that someone doesn't have a job, looks like many folks all of a sudden don't care all that much for the "change" that they voted for.
Who comes to my door without a warrant or invitation is my business.... period... Deal with it.
The guys who dropped the Zyklon-B tabs into the showers at Auschwitz were just doing their jobs, and they were looking for work when they took that gig too.
You really consider doing a Constitutional duty to be comparable to being a Nazi? I cannot imagine the kind of hatred for the Constitution as written that would prompt a person to say such a thing.
You're high. To do anything other than "enumerate" IS unconstitutional.
The Constitution leaves it to Congress, not you, to determine how the Census will be conducted. That means they get to decide what is asked. Your claim that the Census is being conducted in an un-Constitutional manner is untrue, as is your completely unfounded and deliberately malicious allegation that I am a drug user.
You really consider doing a Constitutional duty to be comparable to being a Nazi? I cannot imagine the kind of hatred for the Constitution as written that would prompt a person to say such a thing.
I had the same thing happen to me. I was out working in the yard and a census taker came over to ask questions about a neighbor. I did the Sgt. Schultz "I know nothing" and he left.I had a census lady come and ask me questions about my neighbors. It wasn't a good interaction. First, I was weed-eating the drive way and didn't hear her until I saw her shadow. Because she spooked me, I then turned the weed-eater in her direction while it was running and almost into her face. I think she was going to tap me on the shoulder while it was running. Second, I then said, "what in the hell were you doing, you don't sneak up on a person working like that." She said she was sorry and I said no problem. She then asked if I knew anything about my neighbors. I replied no, restarted the weed eater and went back to work. She may have continued to ask questions, but I couldn't hear her over the weed eater.
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Just because the census was designed to be a tool of freedom for the citizen back int the 1700's doesn't mean it can't be/hasn't been twisted into (at worst) a tool of oppression.
oh, your back
your always sticking up for the government, like you think its unfathomable that they could do wrong against the people.
you will eventualy see I guess. I hope your ready when they come down on us without fear of repercusions
I stick up for the Constitution. You claim to have served, so you've taken the same oath I have. I am wondering, though, why you would take such an oath given your feelings about the government you were working for. You repeatedly tell us how evil it is, yet you willingly chose to go work for them... and kill for them, if what you say is true. Why would you choose to kill for a group of people you feel to be so evil?
I stick up for the Constitution. You claim to have served, so you've taken the same oath I have. I am wondering, though, why you would take such an oath given your feelings about the government you were working for.
Oppression? Oh dear, that sounds serious. In what way are you being repressed by the current Census? Which of those ten questions is keeping you down?
I stick up for the Constitution.
Why would you choose to kill for a group of people you feel to be so evil?
Specifically the questions that accuse me of lying on a federal form(2), racially driven questions(8&9), the age and sex discriminating questions(6&7) and the questions that attempt to ascertain my personal holdings(3&10).
In other words I take offense to questions 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.