2010 Census

Pepe Silvia

inmytree wrote:

Pepe Silvia wrote:

what were people freaking out about? i hadn't received any chain emails about it or maybe i have, i generally ignore things that say FWD

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/0 ... 24175.html

Crazy M. Bachmann is fanning the flames...much like moths, the teabaggers moved toward the fire light...

part of me wants to say i hope she gets voted out but the other half knows she'd just end up on fox news, maybe her and palin could have a show

Cosmo

prfctlefts wrote:

can't you get fined for not filling it out and returning it ?

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So, what happens if I don't fill it out?
Men in black suits will appear at your door and take you away, kicking and screaming. Kidding. But, actually, the real answer isn't all that much more appealing. Again, according to census.gov, you could be subject to a monster $5,000 fine. Fortunately, the government views this as a "last resort." Rather than having citizens respond out of a fear of fines, the government is hoping people will "mail it back" to help their community.

ref. http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93534?fp=1

KDH12

I was a census taker in 2000 and you would be surprised how many people don't fill them out

how many people slam doors in your face

and how many people yell and scream at you

in extreme cases they said that they would send supervisor out with police or us marshals

not sure if it ever came to that

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Cosmo wrote:

prfctlefts wrote:

can't you get fined for not filling it out and returning it ?

...
So, what happens if I don't fill it out?
Men in black suits will appear at your door and take you away, kicking and screaming. Kidding. But, actually, the real answer isn't all that much more appealing. Again, according to census.gov, you could be subject to a monster $5,000 fine. Fortunately, the government views this as a "last resort." Rather than having citizens respond out of a fear of fines, the government is hoping people will "mail it back" to help their community.

ref. http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93534?fp=1

If you don't fill it out, they have to pay someone like KDH12 to go to your house and get you to fill it out in person. So anyone who is TRULY concerned about government spending should mail in their census form to save us all that money.

Starfall

Some facts:

I was sent an email warning me not to provide any information to census takers other than the number of people living in my home. Is that the only question I need to answer on the census?

No. Each of the 10 questions on the census form are mandatory and required by law, so please answer all of them. To learn more about the questions on the form and why they are asked, click here: http://2010.census.gov/2010census/how/i ... e-form.php.

If you don’t mail back your completed form in a timely manner, a census taker will come to your door to record your answers to the questions on the form. All census takers carry a badge with a Department of Commerce watermark and expiration date. Some census workers might carry a U.S. Census Bureau bag as well. The census taker will provide you with supervisor contact information and/or the Local Census Office phone number for verification, if asked.

Please also be aware that the e-mail you received about the 2010 Census, which falsely claimed to be from the Better Business Bureau, is inaccurate and the Census Bureau, in partnership with the BBB, is advising the public to get the facts. For more information about the phony e-mail, please visit: http://www.bbb.org/us/article/phony-bbb ... acts-14542.


And:

What is the cost per household to conduct the census, and how much is the Census Bureau spending per household on advertising on TV, radio, etc.?

To ensure that the public is aware of importance of mailing back the 2010 Census questionnaire when they receive it, and the millions of dollars in taxpayers’ money saved by doing so, the Census Bureau is spending about $1 per person on our combined promotion and outreach efforts. It costs just $.42 cents to mail back the census form in a postage paid envelop. It costs taxpayers $25 per person to send a census taker door-to-door to collect the same information if they didn’t mail it back. Promotional and outreach efforts are heavily focused on increasing the number of households to mail back their form when they receive it this March. For every one percentage point increase in the national participation rate by mail, taxpayers can help the Census Bureau save about $85 million in operational costs.”