I'm proud of my wife! Another "Census" Story

[setxn]

Vonfatman-I was referring to post #3 not your#13.

 

[Bullet Bob]

Way to go, show those temporary citizen-workers who are just trying to be nice and do a simple job what we think of them! That'll teach the goobermint!

 

[n4zov]

Still don't get what is wrong with the census?

The census is clearly a plot to gain personal information for some devious governmental purpose. The plot was cooked up by the "Founding Fathers" and first implemented in 1790. Besides it's a good opportunity to be rude to some poor slob who needed a job and couldn't find anything else.

 

[djohns6]

All of this nonsense about " I'll only tell them what the Constitution requires " is wrong , and the census as it is today has been upheld by the Supreme Court . If they want to ask you how many telephones you have etc. , they can do so . It is not unconstitutional and the courts have said so . If you don't want to answer , that's your business , but don't try to justify your position with misinformation .

 

[RiverCity.45]

Re: Census Story

Immediately thought of the old song...anyone remember it? "Paranoia could destroy ya...."

This is how we get the reputation of being tinfoil hat wearin' conspiracy freaks.

 

[VonFatman]

Lots of good dialog...as always we can agree not to agree without getting crazy. My perspective is different from many here and that's just fine. I appreciate the follow-up posts.

setxn,
Gotcha. It's sometimes hard to follow the thread at times.

Bob

 

[dacoontz]

The census is clearly a plot to gain personal information for some devious governmental purpose. The plot was cooked up by the "Founding Fathers" and first implemented in 1790. Besides it's a good opportunity to be rude to some poor slob who needed a job and couldn't find anything else.

So I guess my retired naval officer and former mail carrier father is a poor slob that needed a job? Wow, that's quite a statement there sir.

 

[Vulcan Bob]

I had a nice lady stop by to get our info, we both had a lot of fun with it. Only gave her that there was two of us here, our gender's and age's no birthdate's or such. I told her that if the fed wanted more info they can always pull last year's tax return! We both laughed and I did apologize to her for being so reluctant and she said I was one of the nice one's. Jeez, I dont think I would want that job.

 

[tom turner]

It is a lousy job indeed. I know a good fella locally who was doing it, but he quit recently.

The three reasons?

1. Incredible disorganization and incompetence of the supervision.
2. Lax employees who weren't being held accountable to put in an honest day's work.

The stray that broke the camel's back was number three. It made him realize what HIS priorities were . . .

3. Being sent into a very dangerous situation and facing a very dangerous PERSON.

He realized that collecting data for a crappy, poorly done census . . . with results that absolutely can NOT be accurate . . . and with those numbers controlled by a government with an agenda? Well, he concluded that the job IS NOT worth dying for!

T.

 

[dacoontz]

I think my dad thought about some of that stuff, but his area was southwest Montana. Everyone there is fairly freindly and he got to ride his four wheeler around from ranch to ranch. I don't think people were too reluctant with him as long as he was on his 4 wheeler or in his F-150, both with Montana license plates. Plus he's 6'4, 220 and still wears his aviator ray bans. People aren't too inclined to bother him much.

 

[windrunner50]

Way to go Karli!

 

[Gutpile Charlie]

That Christopher Walken bit is priceless!

 

[dacoontz]

That Christopher Walken bit is priceless!

I gotta get me some more cowbell!!!