Census At Risk

[The Prof]

CNSNews.com - IT Problems Put Accuracy of Census at Risk, Say Government Auditors

Information Technology (IT) problems at the U.S. Census Bureau could cause inaccuracies in this year's constitutionally mandated decennial tabulation of the U.S. population, according to government auditors.

“IT problems place the efficiency and accuracy of Non-Response Follow-Up at risk and final decennial costs remain uncertain,” testified Judith Gordon, the principal assistant inspector general for Audit and Evaluation at the Department of Commerce, which runs the Census Bureau.

The NRFU is the census’ largest operation and involves personally interviewing millions of people nationwide who did not respond to the mailed Census questionnaire.

Robert Goldenkoff, the director of strategic issues for the Government Accountability Office (GAO), told CNSNews.com that “an estimated 50 million housing units out of a mail-out universe of about 120 million” will be non-respondents that will require an in-person follow-up to count.

Last Thursday, the Government Accountability Office released a report authored by Goldenkoff on the Census Bureau’s IT problems entitled, “Data Collection is Under Way, But Reliability of Key Information Technology Systems Remains a Risk.” The report indicated that the government has known about the problem for some time.

The report said that last February, the GAO had testified that “key IT systems -- most notably an automated system used to manage field data collection known as the Paper-Based Operations Control System (PBOCS) and a personnel and payroll processing system called the Decennial Applicant Personnel and Payroll System (DAPPS) -- were experiencing significant performance issues.” The report documents Goldenkoff's testimony before the House subcommittee.

The Bureau has been in the process of hiring an estimated 600,000 people to conduct the NRFU operation from May through July 2010 -- the interviewers will be trained in April.

During the hearing, Goldenkoff warned that “little time is left” to correct the IT problems that affect NRFU.

The IT component used to “manage Non-Response Follow-Up, the largest Census field operation, is still being tested and it’s scheduled to be released in mid-April,” explained Goldenkoff.

1. They've known since last February the IT wasn't performing.

2. The keystone klutzes can't do anything right.

3. The STIMULUS was sposed to cap unemployment at 8%.

4. They can't even begin to account for where the 862B went, all the phantom districts and jobs---no one has any idea how many jobs were "created or saved" by these keystone accountants.

5. CLUNKERS couldn't pay it's bills on time.

6. Dealers in New York and elsewhere eventually ran away from CLUNKERS.

NY Dealers Bow Out of Cash for Clunkers Program | NBC New York

7. The Home Affordable Modification Program was deemed a dud by AP and a "miserable failure" by Congresswoman Speiers.

Obama's HAMP program 'failed miserably' at preventing foreclosures | OregonLive.com

8. HAMP was a lot like CLUNKERS in that the paperwork was just too difficult---of the 1.1 million people who applied, only 170,000 got any "help."

9. And HALF OF THOSE went on to re-default.

Half of U.S. Home Loan Modifications Default Again (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

10. Did you see what soon to be defunct WaPo said about the H1N1 vaccines our keystone pharmacologists produced at a cost of 1.6B?

11. A full HALF are going to have to be discarded.

washingtonpost.com

12. Yet, when the nation needed medication most, 1000's were being turned away.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/health/policy/18flu.html

Hundreds Turned Away From Swine Flu Clinic - News Story - WSOC Charlotte

13. Then there were the AIG bailouts and bonuses, so obscene, obviously, Tax Cheat in Chief Geithner, as head of the NY Fed, ordered the bailed out bunglers to keep the sweetheart details of their dealings SECRET from the SEC.

Geithner's New York Fed Pushed AIG To Keep Sweetheart Deals Secret (READ THE AIG EMAILS)

14. There was the mirandizing of Mutallab, the moving of KSM into Manhattan, then out of Manhattan.

15. There was the complete bypassing of SECURITY on these matters.

Intelligence chief says FBI was too hasty in handling of attempted bombing - washingtonpost.com

16. Indeed, HIG, the High-Value Interrogation Group, wasn't even up and running, testified Mr Blair, Director of National Intelligence, before Mr Lieberman's Homeland Security.

National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair concedes errors in Christmas bomb case | Deseret News

17. There was the laughably amateurish testimony from AG Holder before Lindsey Graham that became a rather famous youtube moment.

http://dailyradar.com/beltwayblips/video/lindsey-graham-destroys-eric-holder/

18. There was the voting down by NINETY SENATORS of the bid to close Gitmo, again, because our amateur AG couldn't answer a single how, when, where...

Senate blocks funds for Gitmo closure - Washington Times

19. That's quite a record of INCOMPETENCE, don't you think?

20. And now the keystone head counters are gonna screw up the census.

The Prof

 

[Geo Patric]

i wouldn't take anything from CNS as News if my life depended on it.

geo.

 

[Redress]

It's amazing. The OP is off topic. Now that takes talent.

 

[The Prof]

i wouldn't take anything from CNS as News if my life depended on it.

LOL!

tell it to nbc new york, ap, bloomberg, wapo, business week, the ny times, wsoctv in charlotte, huffpo, wapo again, ap again, youtube (LOL!) and the washington times which is owned by the moonies

they all cover the most incompetent collection of keystone klutzes america has ever conceived

 

[Geo Patric]

yeah, uh huh.

geo.

 

[Deuce]

It's amazing. The OP is off topic. Now that takes talent.

Ok, I've got to briefly take him off ignore to see what this is about...

edit: Holy crap you weren't kidding.

 

[The Prof]

Ok, I've got to briefly take him off ignore

you do that a lot, it seems

LOL!

keep checking in!

obama is the most incompetent politician at the national level america has ever produced

he can't even run a census

remember when he wanted to involve ACORN in the counting, his parental organization?

Acorn loses Census; Fox and Beck win

that was funny, too

thanks!