So are you saying that those questions postedby S. Lndsey are false? Are they part of the survey or not? And if they are really part, what is the constitutional authority for their presence? Just asking.

First why is there even a long form.. The Constitutional requirement is a count of persons in a household and that's IT..

Here are some of the questions on the long form...

Question 8 demands that you pigeonhole yourself into one of 15 "official" racial categories: White; Black; African American or Negro; American Indian or Alaskan Native; Asian Indian; Chinese; Filipino; Other Asian; Japanese; Korean; Vietnamese; Native Hawaiian; Guamanian or Chamorro; Samoan; Other Pacific Islander.

Question 17a asks if anyone in your home has any trouble "learning, remembering or concentrating."

Question 17b asks whether you have trouble "dressing, bathing or getting around in the home."

Question 24b asks how long it takes you to get to work, and Question 23a wants to know how you get there -- and there are an astounding 11 choices, including streetcar, bus, railroad, ferryboat, or taxicab!

Presumably the government will use this information to justify squandering billions of dollars on all sorts of boondoggles. In fact, a January 10 press release issued by the Census bureau says the data will be used to "allocate states' shares of more than $200 billion a year" in funding. Much of the data is also used by private companies to make marketing decisions, and is therefore a form of taxpayer-funded corporate welfare.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. ~~Patrick Henry
"Illegitimus non Corborundum"

If you can figure a way to pull it off you should post that on youtube.

I don't like the census either. I think they can get a good enough count from tax returns, and save a ton of money. I was actually counted twice one year. I moved on census day, and both census takers insisted on counting me. (Who would think that people actually move on the first day of any month.)

I hope you will reconsider taking it out on the census taker. The only good thing about it is the jobs that are created, however temporary they are. Besides, you are assuming the census taker is male. And look up what the fines are. Can you afford to take this stand? I'm all for people standing up to this invasion of privacy, but you should know the repercussions ahead of time.

They want to push it further fine by me.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. ~~Patrick Henry
"Illegitimus non Corborundum"