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EXCLUSIVE: Minn. lawmaker vows not to complete Census

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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Outspoken Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann says she's so worried that information from next year's national census will be abused that she will refuse to fill out anything more than the number of people in her household.
In an interview Wednesday morning with The Washington Times "America's Morning News," Mrs. Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, said the questions have become "very intricate, very personal" and she also fears ACORN, the community organizing group that came under fire for its voter registration efforts last year, will be part of the Census Bureau's door-to-door information collection efforts.
"I know for my family the only question we will be answering is how many people are in our home," she said. "We won't be answering any information beyond that, because the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that."
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Awesome, every citizen should do the same.
 
I was young when the last census happened so I don't know what's on the form. What information is on there that could be abused?
 
See, children, this nice lady is proof that ANY flake can get elected to office...:roll:
 
1. Michele Bachmann has been a known idiot for quite some time
2. Very few people actually care about this whole census bull****
 
Outspoken Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann says she's so worried that information from next year's national census will be abused that she will refuse to fill out anything more than the number of people in her household.
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http://www.debatepolitics.com/polls/50534-census-census.html

Scarecrow Akhbar said:
So, who will fill out the "whole" census, and who will fill out the part the Constitution actually requires, the head count?

I don't see that the federal government, or anyone else, needs to know how many TV's I have, how many refrigerators, how many shoes, how many condoms, and all that other snooping bs.

Nope, the government needs to know that there's three Americans and one foreign national (legal) living in my house, and that's it.

How about you? Are you going to feed Uncle Messiah's demand for unlimited access to your personal information?

(BTW, it says THE CONGRESS shall conduct the census, not the White House.)

And there's no point in hiring ACORN to participate in collecting the census. They'll have to send a second team of honest people along behind them to count again, anyway.
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Scarecrow is really Michele Bachmann! I should have guessed!
 
American said:
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Awesome, every citizen should do the same.
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Michele Bachmann is a hot, dumb ass.

With that said I don't support anyone giving their information to the government considering anything more than a head count is unconstitutional.
The only reason they collect that additional information is for wealth redistribution schemes.
 
So the solution of many posters to a government that doesn't fulfill its job well enough for them is to deny it information that could help it do some of its jobs? What "wealth redistribution schemes", Harry?

It isn't in our government's interest to know the country's per capita income? How many citizens have a college education? How many are veterans? How many don't have access to television for, say, emergency broadcasts? Or the Internet? Of all the things in our government to complain about, a nosy census falls pretty damn far down the list in my view.
 
Edify_Always_In_All_Ways said:
So the solution of many posters to a government that doesn't fulfill its job well enough for them is to deny it information that could help it do some of its jobs? What "wealth redistribution schemes", Harry?

It isn't in our government's interest to know the country's per capita income? How many citizens have a college education? How many are veterans? How many don't have access to television for, say, emergency broadcasts? Or the Internet? Of all the things in our government to complain about, a nosy census falls pretty damn far down the list in my view.
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With all those things listed, what would they do once they found out the information?

For instance lets say that one part of the country has way less college graduates than the other, what would they do to remedy it?
Most likely subsidize education to the next level.

If they were not going to use that information for those purposes, what's the point of knowing it?
 
American said:
Sorry, Obama beat her to it.
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well, after Bushie, ALL the flakes knew they had a pretty good chance at getting the top job...I mean, if the nation will elect, and then re-elect GWB, anybody can win....:2razz:
 
American said:
Sorry, Obama beat her to it.
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well, after Bushie, ALL the flakes knew they had a pretty good chance at getting the top job...I mean, if the nation will elect, and then re-elect GWB, anybody can win....:2razz:
 
computer glitch, can someone delete the extra post?
 
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