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Counting Is So Easy A Child Can Do It…..Right?

2010 Census Form

That’s the 2010 Census Form.  You know, the one you got in the mail that cost Heaven only knows how much to send out and for us to send back.  Not to mention the fancy posters and TV ads that INSISTED we send them back.....on pain of no hope..or something.

So my mom and I got our form..we answered the question about how many people live here and their ages..(no I’m not telling YOU that, sheesh) and sent it back, in its nifty SASE..that’s not supposed to cost us anything, but since it’s taxpayer money, that’s not really true now is it?

That was weeks and weeks ago. Today, a Census Worker comes to the door and tells my mom she has some questions. What follows is the conversation, word for word, between my lovely, kind, compassionate mother, and the Census Worker:

MOM: Um, I sent my form in already.
WORKER: Well, as you can imagine ma’am, with the thousands of forms that come in everyday, it is difficult to count them all. (yes, she really said that)
MOM: Well then, why send them at all?
WORKER: So people would send them back.
MOM: And that’s what I did
WORKER: But they might not get counted correctly ma’am (my mom hates being called ma’am by the way), so we are trying….
MOM: That is your problem, not mine.
WORKER: I will just put down that you refused. (Is that a threat? Threatening teh Mom..not a good idea)
MOM: That isn’t what I said. I said I sent my form back as requested and they can count me in Washington.
WORKER: Well…
MOM: I will tell you that 2 people live here.
WORKER: Oh, well that’s one of the things we need to know.
MOM: And that’s all you’re going to know. It’s all I put on the form too.
(Mom closes door)

So here are my questions for the super efficient Federal Government:

1. WTF is WRONG with you? I’m gonna guess at least a Billion dollars was spent between postage, printing, and advertising to send out the stupid forms only to spend another obscene amount of money to send rude random people to my house to ask me the same questions you asked me MONTHS ago and I was responsible enough to send the damn form back.

2. Does this seem sensible to you as stewards of the People’s money? Does this make rational sense, that you sent out millions of forms, demanded they be filled out and sent back, only to tell me that too many of them are being sent back and nobody understands how to count them?

3. Fraud has already been uncovered in the Census by James O’Keefe . And I am quite certain that doesn’t even begin to cover it. And so we’re just supposed to trust the results? As the kids say these days “Whateves”.

4. And with this..you are the people we are supposed to entrust our health care to? Pfffft and I don’t freakin’ think so.

I have an offer for you….if you’re really having the trouble that our Census Worker said you are counting the pieces of paper coming through the mail…I can send you my 5 year old nephew, he can count all the way to 1000 with no fingers or toes at all and he'll work for Skittles.

Dede

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