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How quick the far-rightie teabaggers run from the constitution when it's not convenient... (or they just haven't read it all)
Aunt Spiker, Maggie... Do you know why we take a census every 10 years?
Yep . . . today I had to discuss the neighbor's house with a census worker because my neighbors didn't fill it out/turn it in and they haven't been answering the door.
I was thoroughly annoyed.
On top of that - they wanted to know *when* the home became occupied because it was listed as being vacant.
I had no clue.
Yep - I don't know at what point the house became "occupied" because for the last year they've had people over there working on it almost every day . . . :shrug: . . I've never even met my new neighbors and I don't know at which point they really moved in - I never saw a moving truck.
How quick the far-rightie teabaggers run from the constitution when it's not convenient... (or they just haven't read it all)
Aunt Spiker, Maggie... Do you know why we take a census every 10 years?
Blame the people who did not respond to the census as is their constitutional duty.
Yes, I know why we have the census.
I filled out mine and sent it in immediately after I received it - like a good citizen should do. Unlike my neighbors who decided they wanted to dodge it, eventually leaving it up to me to deal with it *for* them.
<--- Does not like it when people dodge their responsibilities.
I actually posted this because a month or so ago someone posted "what would they do if I don't fill out the census" . . . and here, he has an answer - someone, at some point, will have to answer *for you*
The only thing they Constitutionally need to know is how many people live in the house.
The problem is they ASK far far and away more on those damn forms.
Why did you bother talking to the Census taker? It isn't your problem. You could have just shrugged and shut the door and not been bothered.
Because when people stop off out in the middle of no where, here, they usual are just asking for directions to the innerstate and I'm not a rude prat to people I don't know in a face-to-face situation.
:shrug:
No need to be rude. I would have said something like "Sorry, can't help you... bye now." and gone about my business. To my mind that is being very polite to someone who wants to ask me nosy questions about my neighbor on behalf of the goobermint. :mrgreen:
LOL
I'll keep that in mind in 10 years
If you agree with Goshin that theGoobermint only has the authorization to ask about number of people, You could instead say "I only have the time and inclination to answer one question for you: the number of people that live there. It is ____. Now, good day to you."
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