A real eye opener

Frankly, I really don't understand the paranoia. After all, how many millions of people already post their personal lives and details on the internet (via Facebook or other social networking sites) and post updates to their daily lives (Twitter)? And they do it voluntarily! Now they're going to freak out over the census?! Puh-leeze!

What did you do the last time they took the census, in 2000? This is nothing new, it's been done every ten years for over 200 years! What happened in the forties following World War II was horrible and indefensible, one of our country's most shameful moments, but that's over, nothing like that has ever happened since. There IS a reason for the questions and if people don't fill them out properly and send them back it will hurt them, not the government. For one, it will cost that much more for them to go door-to-door if people don't fill them out and mail them back like they're supposed to. They need to know how many children and of what ages live in a community as well as how many elderly people. The question about race has to do with programs they have aimed at particular groups. I don't consider it an invasion of privacy, they already know what they need to know about me because of my Social security Number of tax returns. This article sounds like Michele Bachmann did several months ago until she realized it could actually cost her her job if her district got eliminated due to the census results! Annie

This is why I do not trust government. There has to be a reason why the government wants this kind of information, and history says it is not for a good reason. They can tell me all day that the information will be kept private, but how private was the information that those 100,000 Japanese-American and all Arab-American? What can be done about this, do away with the census. As we have already discussed the Commerce department could create a software program that keeps up with population grow and decrease.

wow that really is disturbing. This is not the intended use for the census. This just goes to show that political corruption is not new and something that citizens MUST be vigilant in watching and stopping.

So I got the census and I filled it out and sent it in. I did not find it intrusive at all. Name addy and if they where male or female. Nothing personal. Nothing they can not collect from the post office or the town hall. I really do not understand what the big deal was about all of this. without the names dont you think that people can claim to live somewhere they do not and recieve services for that community that they do not deserve? It doesnt ask for social security or anything else. Where is the invasion of privacy that people are feeling? The census has been going on forever and a day and never have I heard such a big uproar as it has been in this election. The information that is given can be verified through taxes. It means alot to every community. So if you put down that ten people live in your household your word should be gospel? Prove it for crying out out loud. Now if they asked for your social or personal info that might be different.