‘I nicked the census man.’ ‘There’s a good boy.’
We’re starting to see some worry that anti-Washington sentiment may be hurting conservative states in the census. This from the Houston Chronicle:
As of Friday afternoon, only 27 percent of Texas households had filled in and returned their census forms — well below the national average of 34 percent — according to computer data from the U.S. Census Bureau….
Contrary to historical trends, some of the toughest challenges facing the agency responsible for measuring the nation’s population are not from counting the traditionally undercounted groups such as African-Americans and Latinos. Instead, a new and growing threat to an accurate national head count is coming from anti-government conservatives who may not fill out their forms to protest against “Big Brother” in Washington.
“There’s a general distrust of the federal government at every level, starting with Congress and the president, all the way down to executive branch agencies,” says Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Midland.
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wesleywhatwhat
March 29th, 2010
12:43 pm
that will show ‘em!
Ben
March 29th, 2010
12:46 pm
So the best way to show Washington what you think is to decrease your representation in it? Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Cutty
March 29th, 2010
12:49 pm
They should say no more about following the Constitution then, since a 10 year headcount is expressed there. Nice job guys!
GaBlue
March 29th, 2010
12:49 pm
Haha!
mike
March 29th, 2010
12:59 pm
It is good to see the idiot conservatives finally doing something right. Lets not fill out the census since it only hurts those populations who are eventually under counted and then under representative. What more can the rest of America ask for. They don’t appear to be to smart but I guess they have it all figured out.
Moderate
March 29th, 2010
1:17 pm
If some of you with predispositions would actually listen and read, few people are advocating boycotting the census (even though it’s arguable that Presbo’s highjacking of the census process is suspect). Rather the writer points to a real problem…i.e. that a significant part of the productive working population in this country has a new and deeper distrust of and animosity toward the current government.
Ben
March 29th, 2010
1:27 pm
Moderate: that’s not a new phenomenon. It’s just that now they have their very own 24-hour network.
Doug
March 29th, 2010
1:48 pm
@moderate How has the President highjacked the census process? Since the President is supposed to be an “empty suit” and reads from a teleprompter how is it that he that he has so many wingnuts giving him “credit” for changing so much in America in just 14 months?
TAC
March 29th, 2010
1:49 pm
Well, instead of giving them 15 (or whatever) Representatives, let’s give them the 3 that the Census says they should have. That seems to be what they want.
Old Hippie
March 29th, 2010
1:58 pm
It is pretty obvious that most of these tea baggers are not very bright. If they want to defy the Constitution and not be counted, and then end up being under-represented in Congress, the state legislatures, and local government, I’m all for it.
kitty
March 29th, 2010
2:16 pm
So much for actually following the Constitution as the right wing nuts keep spouting. I bet they haven’t even read the Constitution or the bright ones would know better. But that is great. There will now be fewer right wing loons in DC due to their own idiocy. Too funny. I love how they outsmarted themselves this time.
TK
March 29th, 2010
2:17 pm
Old Hippie I personally object to the constitution being thrown down as a mat every time some lib or conservative gets their butt in a wad. My form will go back in with exactly how many people live in the home. That’s all the information they need, and I believe it’s all that is required by the Constitution.
Bob
March 29th, 2010
2:19 pm
You screw ups! No one would complain if a “head count” was all that was being asked. What a bunch of freaking liberal lying hypocrite losers. You don’t give a damn about the Constitution, until it might possibly provide some justification for the commiefication of these United States.
Ben
March 29th, 2010
2:33 pm
Oddly enough, the Constitution does not simply provide for a headcount. It provides for an enumeration “such manner as they shall by Law direct.” We have, by law, directed the 10 questions to be answered by all persons. In fact, the very first census in 1790, overseen by the same folks who wrote the Constitution, had questions about race, gender, and economic position. So, no, the total number of people living in a household is not the only piece of information required by the Constitution to be returned, and I think you’d have to be either very paranoid or very self-important to think there is risk in answering the rest.
deegee
March 29th, 2010
2:34 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHA! I knew the minute I opened up that census form that the anti-government crowd would throw it in the trash! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Art Vandalay
March 29th, 2010
2:58 pm
Why are they so scared to fill out questions about race? Scared of too many “Brown people?” hate to break it to Texas but if they are scared of a foreign invasion threatning the American way of life Texas would be ground zero, is english even spoken there anymore, Census or not all you have to do is go there and look. The funniest part is they dont realize not turning in their forms distorts the numbers even more against them than they actually are.
Craig
March 29th, 2010
3:14 pm
I think Ben has access to my Facebook…he said almost word for word what I’ve said before….
kindergarden math
March 29th, 2010
3:31 pm
Jim : I appreciate the reference to Pete’s nephew in “O Brother, Where Art Thou ? ” in the title of your article. That is one of the funniest movies ever made.
The Snark
March 29th, 2010
3:41 pm
BEN:
Oddly enough, the Constitution most certainly does call for a census. As amended by the 14th Amendment, Article 1 Section 2 reads:
“Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.”
ATL
March 29th, 2010
4:03 pm
Of course the Constitution calls for a Census– geez the right-wing loonies can deny the sky is blue or the earth is round (or claim that the President is an alien communist)– still doesn’t make it so…
I say give ‘em an island in the Pacific– call it the Isle of Loon and watch them go extinct in their no tax, laissez faire, every man for himself kingdom, and be done with it…
Ben
March 29th, 2010
6:34 pm
The Snark:
Right. It very definitely calls for a census. But it is not only limited to a simple head count. The framers made very clear that it was up to the Congress to set the manner in which the census would be taken and what exactly would be asked. That was my point.
Ben
March 29th, 2010
6:38 pm
ATL:
I think there was a book written about that once…something about flies and lords or something…
This is Mrs. Norman Maine
March 29th, 2010
8:24 pm
lolololololololol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *deep breath* LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good ole Boy
March 29th, 2010
9:11 pm
Ain’t fillin’ no govment forms out, I want my racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted….Country back…sure ’nuff
Arlo
March 29th, 2010
9:20 pm
Where were these people when W was trying to sell our ports to Dubai, or when we went to war based on faulty intelligence, or when Cheney & Rove were outing CIA agent’s, or when the Bin Laden family was allowed to leave the U.S. on 911, or …….
Real Athens
March 29th, 2010
9:20 pm
What did you expect? It’s Texas.
KA
March 29th, 2010
9:22 pm
The Census form asks its questions prefaced by as of April 1, 2010… It’s not April 1, 2010, and I am not filling it out until then, maybe.
WindyOklahomaTexasSucks
March 29th, 2010
9:22 pm
Do these people not know that Ludacris might show up?
Wake Up Georgia!
March 29th, 2010
9:27 pm
Texas conservatives will not send back their Census forms and Georgians have a low percentage of people getting the H1N1 vaccine as a new wave of sickness hits. Wow! What smart people we are in the South?
GTJohn
March 29th, 2010
9:33 pm
When states start seceding from the union, maybe then all you liberal hypocrites will start noticing that everything is not free and that stealing from people who work to give to people who do not, have not and will not is totally unacceptable.
It’s the old ant and grasshopper tale only now it you Obama bots versus the working people in this country. I agree with Sarah, we are not going to just sit down and shut up.
Trey
March 29th, 2010
9:38 pm
Wake Up Georgia!, who cares about the H1N1 vaccine? Geez, you people act like H1N1 is going to be the end of the human population. There are worse things out there than H1N1, I only got mine because it was required where I was stationed.
Also, there is no real point to skip out on the census form.
KA
March 29th, 2010
9:39 pm
GTJohn, Amen, to your comments, but I can’t wait for secession, I am making plans to emigrate.
KA
March 29th, 2010
9:45 pm
To Wake Up Georgia! Really????!!! You think that returning the census form has anything to do with whether you will catch the H1N1 flu? Honey, keep your hands washed, cough and sneeze into your sleeve, and eat your veggies, and you will be OK.
Trey
March 29th, 2010
9:46 pm
GTJohn, the health care is a repeat of the past
violation of states rights. If the states secede from the health care and this, maybe the south could have a decent president 
Kev
March 29th, 2010
9:49 pm
“When states start seceding from the union, maybe then all you liberal hypocrites will start noticing that everything is not free and that stealing from people who work to give to people who do not, have not and will not is totally unacceptable.”
And conservatives call liberals unpatriotic. Isn’t secession illegal and a form a treason?
Kev
March 29th, 2010
9:52 pm
“GTJohn, Amen, to your comments, but I can’t wait for secession, I am making plans to emigrate.”
To where? Unless you plan on living in a third-world country you’ll be moving to a country that has much more “socialism” than the US could ever have.
Where You Stay, Man?
March 29th, 2010
9:59 pm
The statist libs only care about the Constitution when convenient.
They pick and choose based on their cause du jour (a little French lingo for you Western European-style nanny government aficionados).
Don’t like the First Amendment? Why there’s the “Fairness Doctrine”.
Don’t like the Second Amendment? Just confiscate the firearms.
Want to require that people buy health insurance (or the product WE deem you should buy?), no problem–we’ll send a few of the IRS’s 16,000 new agents to ensure you make the right decision.
I’m still searching for the part where Census respondents are required to list their race, whether their home is owned “free and clear”, their phone number, etc.
blackbird13
March 29th, 2010
10:02 pm
I think part of the fear of the Census is that it is going to show in hard numbers what many of the tea-party types already sense: White people are closer to no longer being a majority than current projections indicate.
I don’t mean that to be a hostile statement. Fear is an instinct that has an evolutionary purpose and to condemn it is to condemn part of what makes us human. But this fear will not serve to advance the species; it is merely the paroxysms of a dying cohort (note the average age of the crowds at the tea party rallies).
David Hoffman
March 29th, 2010
10:10 pm
There is a real 2010 census problem that no one is talking about. The United States Postal Service and the Census people have failed to have enough forms delivered early enough so that citizens can fill them out on time. I live in Warner Robins, GA and if there is a 2010 Census going on, you would not know it by the few forms that have been delivered. The Census people and the USPS are glad most people are paying attention to those who are returning partially completed Census forms in protest of some imaginary evil. It means no one is asking where are all the census forms that should have been delivered by now.
bart
March 29th, 2010
10:12 pm
My God, we in the south are a bunch of ignorant rednecks. Why don’t all you jerks join your idol Limbaugh and go to Costa Rica? Then the IQ level of the South will go up considerably.
Sam Houston
March 29th, 2010
10:16 pm
The great Republic of Texas will not participate in the US Census…we have suceeded from the Union.
Reality
March 29th, 2010
10:23 pm
Love it! I hope that Texas ends up with the same number of representatives as Rhode Island. LOL!!!!
KA
March 29th, 2010
10:27 pm
To blackbird13, What exactly do you think is a Tea Party type? Tea Party members are no different than the anti war activists in the 60’s and 70’s, citizens who stood up and let their opinions be heard, and that’s the American Way. We should respect each others’ opinions, listen and learn from each other. Tea Partiers are just independent thinkers, responsible, working Americans. The Tea Party protests and the anti Census rhetoric has nothing to do with RACE as you want to portray it. Democrat members of Congress and the Senate and their leaders, Pelosi and Reid, are mostly White Folks in case you haven’t noticed. Open your eyes to the fact that the Democrat led federal government is hijacking our economy. I am decamping for an ex-pat job abroad in a developed nation. You can stay and pay more and get less. (and … ‘paroxysms of a dying cohort’, are you serious, or just seriously impressed with your thesaurus?)
Avery
March 29th, 2010
10:33 pm
If the “Red States” secede, they will be receiving foreign aid from the UN in a few years. Most “blue states” are net donors of federal aid, and most “red states” are net recipients. Whoops. So much for that evil government.
MBW
March 29th, 2010
10:36 pm
Of course, what will happen is that the right-wingers will end up being underrepresented by the census….and then they’ll have a whole new conspiracy to freak out about.
Lulu
March 29th, 2010
10:37 pm
There may be a correlation but it isn’t because of a desire to avoid sending in the form. As usual with such documents (I run into it often) the people making out the form don’t pay attention to what it says. They throw in these little quasi glitches and literate people read it and try to follow it. Then get called a “conservative” Backlash. NOTE: The census asks for the name of everyone staying in your house April 1. With a family as laarge and diverse as mine… I seriously won’t know that until April 1. So if you want the form mailed before April 2, don’t put that in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Billy Bob from cobb
March 29th, 2010
10:37 pm
Do you people even realize how much wealth is leaving the us? Rich people did’nt get that way from being stupid and lazy. Yes there are places one can go to get away from socialism. Obama hood winked this country and is now only trying steal as much as he can before he is voted out. I am starting to think the cool aid drinkers on this site are really acorn plants. Its hard to think this many people could be this stupid. there again a lot of people followed Jim jones too. The demo’s should get on there knees every night and thank god for government schools. They fatten these sheep for the slaughter
vuduchld
March 29th, 2010
10:42 pm
I sure hope they undercount themselves. I filled out my form one week after I received it and mailed it back the next day. Why should my federal tax dollars go to a state that doesn’t want to be part of our nation. I say we pull everything, all of our federal resources out of there and let them fend off the drug cartel themselves. We sure as heck don’t need them fools!!
Billy Bob from cobb
March 29th, 2010
10:48 pm
Sorry, I forgot that they don’t belive in god. I guess they can thank allah.
vuduchld
March 29th, 2010
10:50 pm
KA
I AM a responsible, tax paying, US citizen but I’m sure as hell ain’t no teabeggar. Why? Because you folks are full of bs with your right wing drivel. BTW, the KA’s I remember in school was the frat could never seem to get enough black polish on their faces. If you are one of them rich, penny loafer wearin, Jim Daniel drinkin KA Klanners, them we know you’re full of it!!!
Lulu
March 29th, 2010
10:53 pm
PS and if you think that an unfair accusation may I remind you I’ve already received a “threatening” form letter saying the law insists I respond. Or maybe everyone got such a letter. If so how much did that mail out cost the tax payers? Every US citizen knows that already.
upeoplernutz
March 29th, 2010
11:07 pm
Tea partiers and right wingnuts, don’t let the doorknob hit you in the backside on your way out. Try making it in any other country where tax rates are higher (because they help take care of their country) or the country is considered third world.
I find it fascinating that everyone wants decent roads, bridges, healthcare, education, etc. yet they are not willing to pay one dime for any of it. What do you think there is, a give-me-all-I-want-for-free fairy? Quit being so whiney and do your part. BTW, I’ve been fortunate to never have been unemployed in my life. I make a decent living and hold a masters degree. So don’t start with all the garbage about how the only people who agree with the U.S. government must be freeloaders. I pay more in taxes in a year than some of you make I’ll bet, and I’m happy to do it. By doing so I can work to keep my freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
upeoplernutz
March 29th, 2010
11:24 pm
I like pigs. I REALLY like pigs!
PeterPunkinEater
March 29th, 2010
11:48 pm
@blackbird13
You just struck at the very HEART of this uprising in angry White folk. The crux of the entire deal with Obama being President, health care and immigration is that the (racist and insecure) Whites have come to the realization that this country has changed demographically. They have a grave fear that they are actually in the minority when you stack the sheer numbers of non-White bodies to White bodies.. and it is F’g them up in the heads. They cannot take it. This is why they are losing their minds because their system of White supremacy is threatened.
You can say what you want, that IS what it is. And people need to start being honest about it. But I wouldn’t expect anything different. Honest discourse is not one of the United States’ strong suits.
slick
March 29th, 2010
11:51 pm
this is hilarious. i don’t believe the houston chronicle. the only fact is that 7% less forms than “expected” have been returned in Texas up to this point. Texas is huge. i filled my census out the day i got it to get it over with and so i wouldn’t misplace it. do you really think that the 7% are white conservatives? it’s 1 bit pure speculation and 2 bits wishful thinking. now if there is national data that can prove this, show me. but to think that Texas conservatives would be less likely to fill out the census than georgia, new york, or any other state conservatives just doesn’t jive? truth is i remember the when the numbers didn’t meet expectations, so guesstimation was allowed. i’d bet that 90% of the 7% are illegal aliens of which Texas has the second largest number next to California. i’ll also bet that by the time this winds down that the gov’t party line will be, the census does not reflect an accurate count because minorities and illegals feel threatened to fill it out. so we have to guesstimate their numbers for accuracy and proper representation. this is a fact. no matter your political viewpoint, to think a mail in census will yield a proper headcount is naive. i do know this fact. part of the census is contrived to inflate Post Office mail numbers. i rec’d a letter telling me the census would be mailed, then the census arrived less than a week later, then another letter telling me my census had been mailed, then i mailed the census back. i’m now waiting on the letter either to remind me to return the census or the one thanking me. so we have 2.50$ just on me that’s been spent so far just in postage. hope these same people run healthcare.
alienmindtrick
March 29th, 2010
11:59 pm
I agree wholeheartedly with upeoplernutz. I have an MA, I’m self-employed, spent 13 years in the US Army, have never been unemployed, have never been on the dole, I pay my taxes and I pay a lot more than most of the tea partiers make in a year. I’m trying to figure out who these people are. Have they never been abroad and seen what paying a bit more in taxes gets you? Decent roads and infrastructure, healthcare, education (as upeoplernutz states) and when you go to a public office such as DMV, they can actually do bureaucratic math: 6 tellers for 6 windows, no (or very little) waiting. The inefficiencies the tea partiers and other right wing nuts talk about are nothing compared to the time we waste having to wait in line at understaffed government offices as well as the money we waste getting alignments and replacing tires and shocks worn out on our cars from potholes in our highways. Our national parks are crumbling and they talk about user fees to cover them and I say fine as long as I get my part back from their wildlife management fees and the salaries of game wardens. When you start slicing the budget that fine, you’re always going to find waste, but you try t o minimize it and move on, not react by slashing budgets and spiting your own self.
Frank O
March 30th, 2010
1:05 am
My guess is that very few of the Right Wingers have even read the Constitution, much less understand it fully. I spent 20 years of my life in the military service (the majority of it overseas) defending it and your rights under its provisions.
Judging by all the False political emails being sent by Right Wingers, I cannot see how they have a truthful grasp on how life in this world operates. We buy them books and send them to school, but they are just too hard-headed to learn.
The really sad thing is that they are allowed to vote.
The bright light is that perhaps they will not mail in their COMPLETED census form and lose their voting right (their Representative in our Republic).
sleestak
March 30th, 2010
6:05 am
As of Friday afternoon, only 27 percent of Texas households had filled in and returned their census forms — well below the national average of 34 percent
so, that means you idiots that in most blue states 66% didn’t return their form either.
But, when a D.F liberal/totalitarians see the word texas the just lose all comprehension.
Used to be Disgusted
March 30th, 2010
9:15 am
It’s amazing to read how much republicans hate America. Instead of acting for “country first,” they spew venom and, frankly, sound traitorous. Why do right-wingers hate America?
slick
March 30th, 2010
9:34 am
go to chron.com. they have a map with return percentages. they even try to lie about the results. highest return rate is from upscale neighborhoods and suburbs with the lowest being high concentration low income apartment areas. the most consistent rate of return is from areas where the concentration of home ownership is the highest regardless of race. the results are way to premature. they have the city broken down into such small areas that a handful of new forms will make the % move quickly. just like the New York Times best seller list.
Flora Bunda
March 30th, 2010
9:49 am
Unfortunately our government has sold our Personal Identifying Information (PII) obtained from the census to private data brokers such a Acxiom., Lexis/Nexis, Choicepoint, etc.These government contractors are supposed to keep the PII confidential,l and only use if for their database connections to law enforcement and homeland security. These same businesses, ironically, also have direct marketing services and ties to data brokers who sell your PII to anyone that wants it. This has been going on for years.
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
March 30th, 2010
10:10 am
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of trogledyte ghouls.
Oh and please do Succeed from the union. This time, when the south leaves, we’ll apply BUSH rules of warfare rather than the Geneva convention and ship every rebel to work farms in Guantanamo to live in Tent Cities.
No more southern senators saying, “Get your hand out of my pocket!”
This time there will be no mercy.
DT
March 30th, 2010
12:16 pm
So SAD…..
ieee
March 30th, 2010
12:18 pm
As a person listed on one of our country’s glorious, panacea SEX OFFENDER REGISTRIES, I will not be completing the census. No one wants me around, F them if they think I’ll contribute to anything. The retroactive punishment and harassment of the SEX OFFENDER laws is illegal, immoral, counterproductive, anti-factual, idiotic, anti-religious, and as un-American as you can get. F anyone who supports the un-American laws.
Ron
March 30th, 2010
12:20 pm
I answered the number of people in our house, the names of the people and for race I checked “other”, I am an American, damn proud of it. If we are going to get past skin color as race then by golly we have to get past race. What does it matter my race? Does one or the other get different representation? I also took the liberty to not answer whether I lived in a mobile home, house or apartment. What does that matter?
C-King Truth
March 30th, 2010
12:22 pm
The right also believed Bush was a great president. Go uncounted and unrepresented. Meanwhile Texas will be the Brownest state in the Union. Ha ha.
Chris
March 30th, 2010
12:22 pm
queerthecensus.org gays have no representation on the census as gay marriage is not recognized by the govt and if you live in a multirace home please be sure # 1 person is the minority or they will not be counted if person # 1 is white that cancels the minority listed as # 2
Why do the really want my phone number? Why do they need to know if I own or rent? Really … is not all that they need to know is how many of what color and sex live at an address most of the time.
G.
March 30th, 2010
12:22 pm
Republicans and Tea Baggers shopping in Walmart buying communist products made in CHINA pricelest…..
Cletus Dooley Earnhardt SR.
March 30th, 2010
12:25 pm
Im glad the gre8t Americaan Glenn Beck told me to tear up my Cennsis form beecuze I did not kno how to say my wife and my sisster are the same person!
Hey brown peeeple, stop asking for haaandouts and triiying to steeel my wealth!!!
Go Dawgs!
OLD CONSERATIVE HERE
March 30th, 2010
12:25 pm
Ok ok. I have done three of these. It has not changed one bit. Fill the form out so you have the correct representation in the house and senate. There is nothing on those forms that have not been on the forms in the past. In fact they are very similar. Fill the things out and then go use your vote to make the difference. The census however is how its always been. People who dont fill them out are only hurting your state. MAIL THE FORM.
shaggy
March 30th, 2010
12:26 pm
I am VERY sick and tired of the Lib/Con crap. I am going to work to vote both of you out, and keep you out. Both parties are corrupt, broken shadows of what they were founded for in the first place. None of them care anything about you, the citizen. All they care about is getting reelected, so they can culture their power and line their pockets. Go Libertarian and NEVER look back.
Ron
March 30th, 2010
12:28 pm
Why in the world does the census need to know race?
Logical Dude
March 30th, 2010
12:30 pm
I know! I know! Convervatives are not filling it out because they ALREADY got a “census” form from the Republican National Committee. After sending in money for that, they now won’t fill out another one because they found out the money went to swanky hotels and questionable entertainment.
bc
March 30th, 2010
12:31 pm
I would be happy to fill it out if the Morons would send it to me.
bufordmom
March 30th, 2010
12:31 pm
On the census, I filled out how many people live in our house, our names, and ages. I didn’t check our ethnicity. As far as I’m concerned, I’m an American. What else is there to know? As for the “American Community Survey”, yeah, that sucker got tossed in the trash.
Die Hard Dem
March 30th, 2010
12:31 pm
These morons. I can see it now:
Conservastiffs refused to fill out their forms or answer door-to-door calls. Then when it’s time for them to actually receive the funding, they don’t. There will be even more frothing mouths, even more venom, even more hatred and nothing short of wild, rabid animals taking to the streets, rioting and causing mayhem.
At this point, I’m ready to give them a state in our country that they can try to govern for themselves. How about Alaska? There’s plenty of land up there and it’s the home state of their beauty queen idol. Then once they’ve become over-populated from teaching only abstinence and banning abortions, have a high suicide rate from self-hating homosexuals who are treated like diseases, have destroyed the environment because they have no standards to prevent that imaginary global warming thing-y and have run out of land from building too many churches, maybe then they’ll see how great they really had it here.
Morons. They have finally shown their true colors, and I say we vote every last one of the Repukes out of office.
flagboy?
March 30th, 2010
12:33 pm
“Instead, a new and growing threat to an accurate national head count is coming from anti-government conservatives who may not fill out their forms to protest against “Big Brother” in Washington.”
_________________________________
So, is this a story or not? Is there a push by conservatives to not fill out forms OR is this all speculation? The phrase “who may not fill out forms” really leaves a lot to be desired on the journalism side of this story/nonstory.
You people don't get it...
March 30th, 2010
12:34 pm
I kind of think the under representation is a GOOD thing. Less morons in Washington trying to tell me what I should and should not be doing. And judging by some of the commenters on this forum, this country is in serious trouble anyway. And Democrats and Republicans are both scum bags. Quit blaming the other group, you both suck equally.
abc
March 30th, 2010
12:35 pm
Ron and you other tards: We are just trying to count and enumerate a few things about our country. Is it a problem if our country has a good, accurate count of the various races within it, who lives in what type of housing, or anything else? You got something against knowledge? I fully expect plenty of useful, meaningful things can be done with that knowledge. Quit whining.
Katie
March 30th, 2010
12:35 pm
This trend is very sad as well as disturbing. There is an entire segment of our population that is so un-informed (or should I say ill-informed?) they have reached an absurd level of paranoia. Actions like these show how narcissistic people on the far right are – they care only about themselves, their values and their money and could give one crap about the rest of their fellow citizens.
Great to be in ATL
March 30th, 2010
12:38 pm
Anyone else here wish the comments weren’t full of racist closed mindedness?
Try making a post that doesn’t directly insult a group or other post and it might garner some attention.
Otherwise it will look like you grew up in College Park. (See what I did there?)
Right-winger
March 30th, 2010
12:38 pm
You people have a lot of nerve talking about conservatives ignoring the Constitution when your own president (notice I said “your”…not “my” president) has totally ignored it and wants to do away with it totally. He has refused to show that he is even in the country legally, and his minions and high priced lawyers are helping him hide anything that might prove who/what he REALLY is.
Ron Mexico
March 30th, 2010
12:39 pm
Well said Shaggy and You people don’t get it! Good god, its like watching little kids argue over who gets to play with the ball. Republicans and Democrats are all worthless lying pieces of trash. WAKE UP!
yeah c'mone
March 30th, 2010
12:39 pm
For all you H1N1 NUTS, please google SQUALENE!
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
March 30th, 2010
12:40 pm
Texas is their own country.
US CITIZEN
March 30th, 2010
12:40 pm
WOW! CAN YOU IMAGINE THOSE ANTI GOVT. IDIOTS BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR… LETS SAY 10 CONGRESSIONAL SEATS, A HUGE DECREASE (PROBABLY NEEDED ANYWAY)IN HIGHWAY FUNDING, FORRESTRY FUNDING, PARKS AND RECREATION FUNDING THAT TEXAS NOW RECEIVE FRO BIG BROTHER.ON TOP OF THAT, FARM AND OIL SUBSIDIES HALTED I WOULD SAY A LARGE PART OF THE TEXAS ECONOMY. WHO WILL THAT EXTREME RIGHT WING BLAME THEN? ” BIG BROTHER”?
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
March 30th, 2010
12:41 pm
We don’t need no stinkin H1N1 thingy!
ButlerDawg
March 30th, 2010
12:44 pm
There you go, blackbird13. Go ahead and make this a racial issue. You can’t have an intelligent conversation so you have to pull “the card.”
Patrick
March 30th, 2010
12:45 pm
@Slick
Be careful. Soon your considered and thoughtful use of your brain will be rationed.
I readily admit I’m conservative, but I do desire less hateful dialogue. There is plenty of prejudice on both sides of the aisle. Anyone who readily digests the rhetoric of either extreme be it leftist or rightist will necessarily forego any serious thought of their own.
If someone spews hateful, slanted opinions, call them on it whether you in general agree with them or not. Please rise above the vulgar masses and be considerate of your fellow citizens. Be the better man or woman.
good grief
March 30th, 2010
12:45 pm
Katie the exact same thing can be said about the far left.
US CITIZEN
March 30th, 2010
12:45 pm
RIGHT WINGER… YOU SHOW US ALL WHO HE REALLY IS, OR CAN YOU? THE LAST TIME I CHECKED THE BURDEN OF PROOF IS ON THE PROSECUTION. SO SHUT YOUR PIE TRAP UP OR PUT YOUR CARDS ON THE TABLE. BELIEVE ME IF THOSE ANTI GOVT. ZEALOUTS HAD PROOF HE WAS NOT A US CITIZEN, DONT YOU THINK IT WOULD BE KNOWN BY NOW.. YOUR SUCH A NARROW MINDED IDIOT. BE A LEADER AND NOT A FOLLOWER…. SHOW US REAL PROOF OR JUST SHUT UP!
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
March 30th, 2010
12:46 pm
Under the race question 9, their ain’t no box to mark for TEXAN. I am sick of these people!
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
March 30th, 2010
12:48 pm
Right Winger, Obama has obeyed the constitution.
“Who he really is” means you’re a birther.
Which probably also means you want the south to leave the US.
That’s awesome.
Only this time the North has Nukes. We can leave it a cratering cinder of radioactivity.
atl12345
March 30th, 2010
12:48 pm
The US Census Bureau is 100% pure government waste!
Please tell me why we need a census in the first place??
Yes, the constitution requires a count of people every 10 years. Why could they simply not use your tax refund and welfare roles to count people? The US government already has ALL OF THE DATA that the US Census is trying to capture, yet, they have created yet another wasteful government entity. Unbelievable!
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
March 30th, 2010
12:49 pm
What is Flipino mean?
US CITIZEN
March 30th, 2010
12:49 pm
@ GREAT TO BE.. YOU’RE RIGHT. PEOPLE ARE SO FULL OF HATE AND LOW OR NO SELF ESTEEM I SAY TO THEM LOOK IN THE MIRROR, THATS WHERE THEIR PROBLEMS LIE. ALWAYS A BLAME GAME FOR THEM.
Wake up Liberals
March 30th, 2010
12:49 pm
PeterPunkinEater: You are an idiot! You sound like a racist yourself. So it’s all about Black minority power now? Give me a break.
You liberals better wake up but your too stupid to realize what’s going on in America. Now that we have a black President, anyone who diagrees with his socialist ways is automatically a racist. It just amazes me of the double standard in this world. I have nothing against any minority period but when race is used over and over again, it deminishes it’s valid merritt. Anyone who is for America loosing its freedom and being controlled by the government, they are a racist. What a joke!
Why did it take so long to get healthcare passsed? because back room deals and arm twisting were needed to get it done. I feel sorry for the younger generation. Because America is being torn apart by lies, lies and more lies.
tim
March 30th, 2010
12:49 pm
The “traditional undercounted groups” all look alike anyway so just count them as 2.
bad gov't
March 30th, 2010
12:50 pm
Texas can remove itself from the union and be sovereign according to its original charter into statehood. I say all normal people who hate this current regime move there. Let’s start a new country.
When did the census become about entitlements to minorities? It is about representation. Their interest groups are making up statistics and groups like ACORN are cashing in(and don’t come back with that ACORN is no longer; It is-just under a new name).
t
March 30th, 2010
12:51 pm
The census became a joke when the one of the first actions taken by the President was to have the White House’s hand involved in the census. The census is supposed to be a count of the people by a non-partisan entity. So by hiring ACORN workers to help with the census, and for them to have control over the census, they are essentially trying to set up themselves to never lose another election again. That is why people are against, not because of some paranoia, or stupidity. The pure stupidity comes from all of you who don’t understand what is going. Half of you probably voted for Obama because it was “the cool thing to do”. The other half probably did because you thought he would give you a car. This Congress and White House are doing everything that they possibly can to destroy our nation for one simple reason, they don’t like it. All they like is power and by controlling the census, they are attempting to ensure power for years to come.
MathMan
March 30th, 2010
12:51 pm
Hey GT John,
In response to you comments about “stealing from people who work to give to people who don’t, is totally unacceptable”! Are you speaking about the folks who sipped mint juleps while others toiled their fields? Or are you talking about government officials and large corporations who “perpetrate” war to (and I know you hate this term) shift wealth form your pockets to those whose pockets are already bulging? Do yourself a favor and read THE PEOPLES HISTORY OF THE U.S. FROM 1492-PRESENT. You’ll get a clearer picture of how the bulging pockets since the founding of the U.S. have manipulated small minds like yours for their own benefit. Or read WAR IS A RACKET by decorated veteran soldier GEN. Smedley Butler to see how the rip off of taxpayers money didn’t start with your friend Dick Cheney when he got no bid contracts for his buddies at Haliburton. By the way, I didn’t hear your outrage when that started “Good Buddy”! Fact, the U.S. is $12T in debt, the U.S. has spent $12T on the military in the last decade and we ain’t any safer from a “terrorist” than we were ten years ago. If you weren’t so clueless it’d be laughable!!!
Farsider
March 30th, 2010
12:51 pm
Right wingers are following their leaders right over a cliff. But what do you expect of a crowd that does not respect our country’s institutions. They want to start everything from scratch!
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
March 30th, 2010
12:51 pm
Emma Isa sposed to count the goats and chickens that live in the house too?
ZULU
March 30th, 2010
12:53 pm
I know it won’t happen but I would love to see all of the Defense Dept. money spent in states like Texas. Since they hate the Federal government so much. Someone needs to tell the racist conservatives that the Confederates lost the Civil War. Either learn to get along with others or get gone.
US CITIZEN
March 30th, 2010
12:54 pm
WOW.. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WORD COMPROMISE. I HAVE A SOLUTION… STOP LISTENING TO LEFT AND RIGHT WING RADIO “ENTERTAINERS” PULL YOUR CONSTITUTION OUT AND READ IT FOR YOURSELVES (IF YOU HAVE NOT YET).. YOU MIGHT JUST BE SURPRISED AT WHAT IT ACTUALLY SAYS.
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
March 30th, 2010
12:54 pm
Pump, pump the JAM… my friends.
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
March 30th, 2010
12:55 pm
I wipe my but with the sentsus.
Patrick
March 30th, 2010
12:57 pm
@Zulu
Most of my friends are conservative and are not racist believe it or not.
DMB
March 30th, 2010
12:57 pm
I’m surprised this hasn’t caught on here. Dumb A$$es.
David S
March 30th, 2010
12:57 pm
Answer the first question and be done with it. You are counted, the constitutional requirement is fulfilled and the big-government theives are without information to help them buy votes from their favored constituencies.
Taxpayer
March 30th, 2010
12:59 pm
Maybe now we will get minority stautus, and the protections and benefits that go along with that status.
JF McNamara
March 30th, 2010
1:00 pm
Shaggy,
I agree with you in principle, but there is one recent counter example. The libs just passed the health care legislation even though they knew they would probably lose out on votes in November. They actually passed something they think it best for America while putting their self interest (somewhat) behind them.
I’m not sure that the bill will be positive or negative, and I could give a rats bottom about either side. The Dems, however, did just sacrifice votes for something they believed would be helpful to individuals.
MAE
March 30th, 2010
1:01 pm
Moderate, what does “Presbo” mean? It doesn’t sound postive, so why would you use it? Sounds disrespectful and mean spirited. Why????
Dave R.
March 30th, 2010
1:01 pm
Actually, to clear up Ben’s misrepresentation of the Constitution yesterday, the Constitution says that a count shall be made every ten years to determine “Representatives and direct taxes”. That is the reason for the census.
The “manner as they shall by law direct” that Ben tried to use as justification for any and all questions on the form goes to how the Congress determines how to go about counting people.
Why do you perform a census? To determine the split of representation across states.
How do you perform a census? Any way that Congress deems appropriate.
Constitutionally, all you have to answer is the number of human beings in your household – and nothing else.
And under race, I checked “Other” and wrote in “Human”.
100% with them
March 30th, 2010
1:01 pm
100% with those who oppose and totally distrust our government. No need to be counted…my vote does not matter to this group in Washington…remember 80% polled were opposed to the healthcare bill…they did what they wanted anyway. Only a revolution will change my hope for this country.
More government waste
March 30th, 2010
1:02 pm
Suggestion to the US government, why don’t you just add one page to our tax returns every year you would like to collect some kind of census? A few months ago, I came home to find that some one was at my house, and they left some census paper on my door. This occurred twice. I then received a letter telling me the census was coming and they wanted me to fill it out. I then got the census, and filled it out. Then a week or so later, I got a postcard saying I should fill the census out. I have lost count of how many internet and tv ads I have seen about the census. All the people, the ads, and postage has to cost multi millions of dollars. Attach it to the tax returns every 10 years, and hire some temps to sort them from the returns, and ease up on all the ad time. But knowing our country, this money saving idea is going to be flushed down some $200,000 golden toilet that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosli use.
Kevin S
March 30th, 2010
1:06 pm
Not getting counted is a really dumb thing. I filled mine out by answering question 1, How many people live in your house? Sent it back in. They don’t need to know race, age, birthday, etc. Unless they plan on distributing money based on race or age…
Drinking COFFEE from now on.
March 30th, 2010
1:07 pm
“You people have a lot of nerve talking about conservatives ignoring the Constitution when your own president (notice I said “your”…not “my” president) has totally ignored it and wants to do away with it totally. He has refused to show that he is even in the country legally, and his minions and high priced lawyers are helping him hide anything that might prove who/what he REALLY is.”
This statement pretty much epitomizes the rank stupidity that defines the Tea Party people and the average right-winger in general. Ignorance, completely unfounded accusations, an astounding lack of logic and reason and a healthy dose of rampant paranoia. And he says MINIONS! LOL!
Wow, the right is full of insane, paranoid, uneducated morons.
Patrick
March 30th, 2010
1:08 pm
@MathMan
While I agree that corporate America is greatly flawed (and I’m being generous), I would take great exception with saying we are no safer and supposition that our budget woes would all disappear if we just disbanded our military. That is beyond naive. I apologize for stooping to the pejorative, but if you really think the US should not have participated in WWII, you lose all credibility.
Are you Libertarian? If you are a liberal Democrat, then don’t throw stones at the military for gross mismanagement of federal funding. The reality is that bureaucracy is wasteful as an institution almost by design.
Steak Shapiro's Gouty Toe
March 30th, 2010
1:09 pm
Steak, I am begging you…no more alfredo, no more pastrami, no more bagels and cream cheese, no more Kevin Rathbun Ny Strips, please….the pain….the torture……self control Steak…Self control!!!!
bee
March 30th, 2010
1:10 pm
Only honest people will fill out census. crooks won’t
Jim
March 30th, 2010
1:11 pm
I cant stand all of you liberals on this sight.
Palin
March 30th, 2010
1:11 pm
I am a conservative in TX and I agree with not being counted!!!
Anything I can do to be an obstructionist is my calling!
bobcatlga
March 30th, 2010
1:12 pm
The Constitution says we are to be counted every 10 years. We should all send the census forms back with just that, a count. There are no race requirements. It was determining each states representation in Washington DC, nothing else.
Brad
March 30th, 2010
1:13 pm
Idiocy is entertaining.
Karl Rover
March 30th, 2010
1:15 pm
it’s collie pawk. not College Park
A Hopeful Voice of Reason
March 30th, 2010
1:15 pm
@Doug “How has the President highjacked the census process? Since the President is supposed to be an “empty suit” and reads from a teleprompter how is it that he that he has so many wingnuts giving him “credit” for changing so much in America in just 14 months?”
I seem to recall the previous administration’s “empty suit reading a teleprompter’ being blamed with everything from causing 9/11 to actually letting the levees in New orleans break.
Anyway, the biggest problem with the census, as I see it, is that the census form I received was more than two questions. The census should be fairly straightforward.
#1: How many people live at this address?
#2: Is everyone that lives at this address a US Citizen?
The End.
Shane
March 30th, 2010
1:17 pm
If the “Red States” secede, they will be receiving foreign aid from the UN in a few years. Most “blue states” are net donors of federal aid, and most “red states” are net recipients. Whoops. So much for that evil government.
Couldn’t have sad it better. The red states are mostly poor states that don’t really contribute much anyway. The blue states make all the money and are what makes America go.
Bursaw
March 30th, 2010
1:18 pm
As of Friday afternoon, only 27 percent of Texas households had filled in and returned their census forms — well below the national average of 34 percent — according to computer data from the U.S. Census Bureau
Since it’s reported as fact that they know they are down from 34% to 27% tells me they already know how many people there are. So why all the uproar. Is it just so bloggers have something to call each other names about???
Just Wondering...
March 30th, 2010
1:19 pm
… why ANYONE has sent in the Census form. Mine asks how many people lived in my house on April 1. Unless I missed something, that’s this coming THURSDAY. Seems to me like a lot people will be counted who died between the time their form was sent in and the April 1 target date.
Melissa
March 30th, 2010
1:21 pm
commenting on oldhippie statement…I read his/hers and no other blogs today – thinking because I too am an old hippie – I could related. Not true as the blog was insulting. Takes all kinds … true statement. I’m quite educated, extremely wise and extremely tired of government at all levels – so if not conforming to a census is someone’s way of protesting – go for it. We have very little voice left oldhippie – we have very little of anything left in the way of freedom of anything – so I’m in the corner with anyone who says “enough is enough”. This country is on the brink of something – and based on the anger, protests, and ram down your throat government – I’d say the something is not very good. What happened last week in Washington set us back as a country 45 years. We aren’t united – in fact we are more divided than we were during civil rights. We can’t debate each other in this country because the leader doesn’t want debate – he wants what he wants and he will damn anyone who gets in his way. My vote in 2008 did not give him the right to steal my freedom, nor did it give him a right to take what I earn and give it to someone else. This is not my ancestors country anymore…and I am a sad oldhippie because of it.
boots
March 30th, 2010
1:22 pm
I just wrote all over mine that the government is out of control and is taking over too much of our personal lives. I also declined to answer certain questions. They know how many live in my home, their names and ages, but that is it. Screw the government.
smk
March 30th, 2010
1:23 pm
I’m with Shaggy. You are totally disillusioned if you think the Democrats or Republicans are any different at the core. The vast majority are corrupt, care only about re-election, and worry about what will get them votes (Pork). So I say, vote out all incumbents, and keep doing it until they get it and start acting like a government and not an elite club. And grow up and quit calling people at names. That just shows you don’t have the ability to actually make a point.
LTD
March 30th, 2010
1:24 pm
PeterPunkinEater & @blackbird13
Talk about sounding racist, that is exactly how you sound! I would be happy if things even out. Maybe then whites would have the same benefits as other people. BTW, if the whites become a minority in the US does that mean white children will have the same, or possibly more, College Scolarships as everyone else? Right now it’s next to impossible for a white to get a College Scolarship…most of them are only available to “minorities”…even if they get better grades and do better in school. Like I said, I would be happy to see things even out and this racist crap stop. It should not matter what color you are…just who you are on the inside.
Meet in the middle
March 30th, 2010
1:25 pm
Texas and the tea baggers voted for Bush in 2004. Why pay them ANY attention? He was a perfect leader and representative for them and so is Sarah Palin…slow, incompetent, and hypocritical. Tea baggers aren’t an independent bunch. They’re Republican retards. I’m an Independent and detest both parties. Democrats are really dumb, but Republicans are much much dumber.
“Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!” I’m willing to bet with America divided down the middle politically, that stupider half are Republican and Tea baggers.
boots
March 30th, 2010
1:26 pm
Shane, you are an idiot. You have no idea what you are talking about. The red states contribute a net positive. Depends on what you call a red state, but if you look to the average of the past four federal elections, those red states pay in 27% more than the blue states. California alone is a drain. Meanwhile, the red states have most of the military sites, Alaskan oil and the majority of the east coast and gulf ports. We would also control the natural gas and food producing regions. The major loss would be west coast access points along with financial institutions in NYC.
Todd
March 30th, 2010
1:28 pm
Anti-Washington sentiment may be hurt the state
Shane
March 30th, 2010
1:30 pm
Alaskan oil and the majority of the east coast and gulf ports
Alska provides 4 % of the US oil. Wouldnt be missed. The blue states would get along just fine. The red states would be teaching creationism in 2 years. Universites would fall apart and so would the red states economy within 5. Meanwhile the blue states would get along nicely without the red states drag. The proverbial weight would be lifted.
Most people in red states are on welfare. There are far more white people on welfare than black. Those are facts.
Patrick
March 30th, 2010
1:31 pm
@Melissa
Amen.
Nunya
March 30th, 2010
1:31 pm
Why do we still need a census anyway? Big Brother knows everything about us already by our taxes. The census is a big fat waste of tax payer money when much more important things need to be focused on.
SonnyFab
March 30th, 2010
1:31 pm
I’m glad so many uninformed people think that because Houston is in Texas, this must be a tea-party related issue. Houston is 38 percent Latino, which is the most traditionally under-counted group. Maybe it isn’t a tea-party thing, but the standard issue of getting immigrant populations to report to the Census. Just a thought…
xgirl451
March 30th, 2010
1:32 pm
In an earlier census, I received the long form which I found to be incredibly intrusive. The form had questions asking how much I paid per month for gas, electricity, water, rent/mortgage, car payments,etc.
I refused to answer those questions.
My understanding is that for this census that there are no long forms being mailed.
Bob
March 30th, 2010
1:34 pm
you mean conservatives are not standing in line for federal funds ? Maybe they are being consistant and figure that since the census is now just a way to dole out free money, they don’t want to be included. I would laughing at that whose lives are so pathetic that they think a census is a path to money. And since Pelosi and Reid have this ship running so smoothly, why even comment on conservatives. Texas is far better off as a state than most any governed by dems other than maybe New Hampshire, laugh at them while you wait for Obo to make your house payment.
Jeff
March 30th, 2010
1:35 pm
Blackbird13, Peter the Pumpkin eater, I welcome the news that there is a real fear that caucasians are assuming minority status. Does that mean that caucasians will also realize that they only have to support a minority of the population now. Certainly the newfound majority can take care of themselves without their help. Not……..
jrzshore
March 30th, 2010
1:38 pm
According to article, only 34% returned. Amazing that they want this info but NO INFO OR PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP TO VOTE. What a JOKE!
CAR77
March 30th, 2010
1:39 pm
Great. Less resources and infrastructure will be spent on the areas where these ignorant punks live. Enjoy your cookie cutter suburbs, hopefully they will cut off all taxpayer funded things in those areas- no street lights, no police, no schools.
ATL
March 30th, 2010
1:40 pm
80% against Healthcare!(?)… only in this lonely soul’s mind… Last I looked it was 49% for– 40% against and changing towards the for… hmm– its not easy being in the (looney) minority is it?– as right-wingers are finding out every day now…
phoenix falcon
March 30th, 2010
1:40 pm
atl12345
everybody does not do their taxes, and not everybody is on the system.
some of you people sound as if you have something to hide, do you only want to live by SOME of the things the constitution says or all of it?
in fact i’m urging all black people to tell them you have 15 or 20 kids, lol, i did mine, and i told them i have 32 kids and trips on the way
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
March 30th, 2010
1:41 pm
The Dallas Cowboys are America’s team.
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
March 30th, 2010
1:43 pm
Galveston was devastated by a hurricane some years ago.
phoenix falcon
March 30th, 2010
1:46 pm
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
and Texas City was destroyed by a large explosion some years before that, what is your friggin point?
Mr. Mike
March 30th, 2010
1:46 pm
Folks, not filling out the census forms is not the answer. FYI: When a state’s population increases significantly, electoral votes for that state can increase giving that state more leverage in the presidential elections. For example, as a result of the 2000 census the state of Ga picked up 2 more electoral votes moving us from 13 to 15. The way to change things is vote the wrong people out of office and put the right one’s in. And let me say one one thing while I am at it. When any nation turns from God and starts putting immorality about its own pleasures above what is right then that nation is in trouble. Remember all the fornication, homosexuality, abortions, removing prayer out of schools, removing the 10 Commandments out of public places and court rooms and the list goes on: America was a great nation, once, when it honored God.
Fire Frank Wren
March 30th, 2010
1:47 pm
Let them do it. They are only hurting themselves.
Hey, It's Enrico Pallazzo!
March 30th, 2010
1:48 pm
The census is needed for determining how each state is represented in the House of Representatives. The census asks about age and race to help determine how federal money is distributed to the states for various federal programs. If Texans want to burden their state with higher taxes to make up the shortfall of those federal dollars, then they can do that. End the end they will do as we saw Sonny do recently with the Race to the Top; he went begging for federal money.
Michael
March 30th, 2010
1:48 pm
Cool. I’m proud to be a Texan.
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
March 30th, 2010
1:49 pm
Fort Worth is home to the “Stockyards”.
@ phoenix falcon – do you need some more fiber in your diet?
Michael
March 30th, 2010
1:49 pm
Any little thing helps I guess.
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
March 30th, 2010
1:50 pm
Texas does not have a state income tax.
phoenix falcon
March 30th, 2010
1:52 pm
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
yes, yes i believe i do
Chris D'
March 30th, 2010
1:52 pm
In other census statistical news skewed to this stupid articles twist on the facts. The liberal bastion of South Carolina currently has a return rate of %48 while the conservative state of New York has a return rate of %41. Those right wing fanaticals in New York City need to get a grip. Yah, I am talking to you Bill Clinton and your tea party rallies at the Apollo.
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
March 30th, 2010
1:54 pm
My expansive ranch is fenced and heavily secured. If a census worker comes a callin, I will leave them at the gate in the 100 degree heat and tell them that I will be there in a minute.
cmurphyga
March 30th, 2010
1:55 pm
Wow! It’s offical, the stupid get stupider…
Are u serious?
March 30th, 2010
1:55 pm
Just when I thought this country was ready to bury the old days….we go right back to it. For a nation full of riches, we make some of the most azzbackward choices. Fill out the form and shut up.
The time you spend protesting could be used looking for a job. I see why people leave the United States and never come back.
Michelle
March 30th, 2010
1:58 pm
Good. Then maybe they will receive even fewer federal dollars. MORE for the rest of us!
Gooooooo Texas!
phoenix falcon
March 30th, 2010
1:58 pm
this country is going st8 to hell, and it’s all thanks to the racist republicans, that’s a fact.
jm
March 30th, 2010
2:00 pm
If you’re a conservative, this isn’t as non-sensical as you may think. The census drives funding mostly for things conservatives are against. Furthermore, if the census was widely known as inaccurate, it would (in theory) lead to the conclusion that more management and authority be distributed to the states.
Makala
March 30th, 2010
2:00 pm
@ Ben-I agree with you. So the best way to show Washington what you think is to decrease your representation in it? Yeah, that makes PERFECT sense. SMH
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
March 30th, 2010
2:02 pm
Texas is doing quite well thank you.
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
March 30th, 2010
2:03 pm
Austin has a great music scene.
Jay 1941
March 30th, 2010
2:04 pm
Why is President in lowercase? The world has me really frightened right now. Our ingnorance is really beginning to show.
Jeffrey
March 30th, 2010
2:07 pm
Where were all these right-wing nut jobs when “W” gave us the Patriot Act? Two wars without funding it? Medicare prescription without funding it? Supporting amending the Constitution they so love to prevent same-sex marriage (yes, that is an intrusion of government into our personal lives)? Yeah, I didn’t think so. They are extremely selective about who they raise their voices against, and that just happens to be liberals. When conservatives tread on their soil, they don’t say a effing peep! Get over it! If you don’t like it, move to Haiti, Yemen or the Sudan if you want to live in a country where government has no control over its people’s lives.
ZJ
March 30th, 2010
2:10 pm
This only PROVES that those self-righteous right-wingers have no idea HOW the government (e.g. Congress) actually works. No surprise, and amusing, all at the same time!
Jeff in ATL
March 30th, 2010
2:10 pm
“When states start seceding from the union, maybe then all you liberal hypocrites will start noticing that everything is not free and that stealing from people who work to give to people who do not, have not and will not is totally unacceptable.”
Interestingly enough the states that are more likely to secede are in the south; the states which receive more money from Washington DC than they send.
Minnesota, Massachusetts (well, all of New England), etc. — those dirty blue states — all receive less money than they send to DC every year. Maybe those blue, liberal, wealthy states should secede and let the south fend for itself. I’ll gladly move back north if that happens.
mta56
March 30th, 2010
2:12 pm
Since I don’t speak spanish or ebonics there is no reason to fill out my census form. It will not aid my kind in any way – only steal my money to support minorities!
Conservative for freedom
March 30th, 2010
2:13 pm
I don’t trust anyone in Washington. However, Republicans are not pushing this country toward Marxism/Communism/Socialism. They are all the same. I filled out my census but this time I was more reluctant to do so.
Everything is Bigger and Better in Tejas.
March 30th, 2010
2:13 pm
You fools underestimate Texans. We don’t need or want government control or money. Now take your ball and run on back to Obammy… err I mean Mommy.
Ignorance at it's best
March 30th, 2010
2:13 pm
Not surprised by Texans…They did produce ‘W” knumbskulls.
Ga transplant
March 30th, 2010
2:15 pm
Wow, really surprised at the responses here. For the deep, conservative, south, quite a few progressive responses and comments here. Maybe Georgia isn’t a lost cause after all. By the way, for all those people who think this is a “big brother” tactic or some other liberal plot, consider this. The NSA can and does know, for the most part, who you are, where you live, every internet site you visit, and all your financial information. The census is for the people that leave virtually no paper trail. I would echo that by not filling out the census, you only hurt yourselves. Your congressional representation goes down as well as federal funds for virtually everything.
what about it
March 30th, 2010
2:15 pm
once the white is no longer the majority does that mean whites start getting all the breaks, affirmative action, college scholarships for being a minority, etc. currently afforded to minorities. Maybe my sons can get some help with college through grants instead of taking out loans to cover what I can’t pay for….
Jeffrey
March 30th, 2010
2:16 pm
There’s a reason most southern states lag behind the rest of the country in personal wealth, good health, education and other important quality of life statistics. It due to lack of effective and active government. Oh, the weather may be milder, the tea sweeter, but where does that get you?
The True REALIST
March 30th, 2010
2:16 pm
Just another case of Stupidity rearing it’s ugly head. If they dont want to be counted….forget them. Each day, consercatives are proving to be even more lost.
Jeffrey
March 30th, 2010
2:23 pm
what about it–Are you inferring you would like government assistance? What cracks me up on the health care debate is that conversatives are so up in arms about it when it is about the only legislation that has come out of Washington, DC over the past several years that is actually good for its citizens instead of being good for big business. I just don’t get it. Why are conservatives okay with spending unbudgeted and unpaid-for wars in the Middle East costing us well over $2,000,000,000,000 (yes that’s 2 trillion–twice the amount of the healthcare bill) to date with many more trillions to come during the course of the wars and the associated healthcare costs for our brave men and women who have been permanently injured–both physically and emotionally? Why were you not screaming then about fiscal responsibility? You all are just a bunch of yahoo hypocrites.
RT
March 30th, 2010
2:27 pm
So, you protest the gov’t by not participating? Strange how these idiots don’t want to tell the gov’t anything about themselves, but they want the gov’t to tell women that they can’t have an abortion. They can’t have it both ways…
ButlerDawg
March 30th, 2010
2:28 pm
I cringe knowing all of these 20-somethings (some out of college, some still in) are moving into the corporate environment. Already brain-washed with anti-capitalism, anti-conservative, anti-white hatred. And I’m not that much older than you twits!
Jimmy
March 30th, 2010
2:28 pm
As of Friday afternoon, only 27 percent of Texas households had filled in and returned their census forms — well below the national average of 34 percent
so, that means you idiots that in most blue states 66% didn’t return their form either.
But, when a D.F liberal/totalitarians see the word texas the just lose all comprehension.
mta56
March 30th, 2010
2:28 pm
Guess the butt kissers at the ajc removed my non politically correct comment! Sissy cowards!
STFU
March 30th, 2010
2:30 pm
Wow the left and the right just cannot play nice. You’re all ignorant morons, Democrats and Republicans. If one of you doesn’t like something the other does they are obviously racist or trying to give away “your money”. Get a new argument BOTH of you. Its like the verizon and AT&T commercials, I really don’t give a sh*t which one of you is better, I would like you both to shut up!
bugman
March 30th, 2010
2:31 pm
Umm, Ben, in case you haven’t noticed lately, you don’t really have representation in DC. Big busines on the other hand…
jj
March 30th, 2010
2:31 pm
Really Sad! Instead of doing what everyone yelled and screamed and name called about during the Bush administration they have just increased the name calling in a much more abusive and hateful mannor. The way I see it anyone that can’t rise above calling names really is just showing their ignorance to the rest of the world. There are plenty of problems and even more solutions if we and washington would work together but until the party in power realized that it doesn’t get 100% of the say because of who or what they are then we will never have real change. Never has there been such partianship and no one can deny that.
Cletus Dooley Earnhardt SR.
March 30th, 2010
2:34 pm
I hate the govvernmeant. The censis peeple came to my trailor just last niighht. I was enjoiying a nice cold Pabsst Blu Ribbbon and watcchin the UGA vs Auburn VHS viddeo forr the 543 tyme, and theyy ticced me off bad!! Dey wooldnt lett me coint my roooosters or my wife/sister as seeperate peeple!! Isss this how theyy chose to run the govvernmeant? Arree these how they speend the 60 dollars or taaaxes I pay outtta my wealth? Whoo in the naame of Daavid Green do theyy thenk they arree?
GO UGA!!!
Sigh...
March 30th, 2010
2:35 pm
“What cracks me up on the health care debate is that conversatives are so up in arms about it when it is about the only legislation that has come out of Washington, DC over the past several years that is actually good for its citizens instead of being good for big business.”
It is only good for the insurance companies… but you keep on believing that forcing 300 million people to buy health care is gonna be awesome, cause it won’t be. Do you realize that our healthcare system is already stretched thin as it is. All its going to do is make insurers more money and make it ten times harder for any of us to get treated.
Taylor Wooten
March 30th, 2010
2:35 pm
Does anyone really believe for one second….that the Census matters?
What a crock. Its just Washington BS.
GA Native
March 30th, 2010
2:36 pm
The higher propensity of “progressive” is a direct reflection of the entitment crowd that does not work and if they do they are probably in a government job that they just get paid to show up and put the phones on hold at. The conservatives have less time to spend dialoging with stupidity – they have to work to pay for the entitlements that allow the idoits to prove that the are idiots.
ButlerDawg
March 30th, 2010
2:39 pm
Agree with “GA Native” 100%!!!
Patrick
March 30th, 2010
2:43 pm
@Jeffrey
Please don’t spout off when you don’t know your facts. This only damages your credibility. The numbers are bad enough without you inflating them. I also won’t bother correcting you on the gross misrepresentation of what universal health coverage will cost. No estimate is as low as $2 trillion.
I would direct you to a website whose soul aim is the disclosure of federal spending on the armed conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan:
http://www.costofwar.com/
And I quote…
All Counters
The numbers indicate all of the approved funding for the wars to date. These appropriations do not include funds to support the “surge” of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan announced by the Obama administration on December 1, 2009. Conservative estimates suggest the surge will cost approximately $30 billion and we anticipate supplemental appropriations for this later in the year. When additional FY2010 war-related amounts are approved, we will adjust the counter so that it reaches the new total at the end of FY2010.
If you should compare the amount displayed on the Cost of War counters with the numbers available in our information sheets, please note that the information sheets include all war spending to date, the same number that the counters will reach at the end of the 2010 fiscal year.
Total War Funding since 2001
To date, $1.05 trillion dollars have been allocated to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This counter is designed so that on September 30, 2010, the end of the federal government’s 2010 fiscal year, the counter will reach that total number. Likewise, counters found here for states and towns will also reach their portion of this number at the end of FY2010. Please note, due to lower 2010 appropriations for Iraq the total estimated cost of war decreased since our last update.
Also, if you think this is published by conservatives, you are woefully mistaken.
Cletus Dooley Earnhardt SR.
March 30th, 2010
2:45 pm
GA nateve you musst be a stankin liberral wiht all thosse faancy worrds. Goo back up Norrth with alll of thatt Prroggressivess andd entttitlements worrds. Youu Liberalls arre always ussing biggg words on uss harrdworking connservatives. I gett madd whne you calll uss bad wordds like “prrogressivess”. Wee arre prrogressive justt becasue we are Reppublicans and Lovve this darn’ countrry?
Cletus Dooley Earnhardt SR.
March 30th, 2010
2:45 pm
I forrgot to add onee thing Johnn F Kennedy Jrr AKA GA nattive:
GO UGA!
Sigh...
March 30th, 2010
2:52 pm
And Cletus, shut up.
Cletus Dooley Earnhardt SR.
March 30th, 2010
2:55 pm
Isntt Sigh a Indiaan Name?? Go bacck to India commmie!
GO UGA!
RADLY
March 30th, 2010
2:56 pm
Yeah Galloway….let’s make it a Right Wing/Conservative Conspiracy..you and that AJC!!!!
In case you haven’t noticed….this country and its citizens…those with any moral and fiscal responsibility are hopping mad about the way Washington’s Elitist politicians are thumbing their collective noses at their constituincies. Ok…….see ya in November idiots!! You’ll listen then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sigh...
March 30th, 2010
3:01 pm
Obvious Tech fan there or gator, but nothing valid to bring to the argument either. Your not funny.
sam
March 30th, 2010
3:01 pm
What difference does race make in the census? Why should monies be distributed based on this? Why isn’t there an option for “smorgasbord”, “mutt” or “part of the melting pot” because that is what most of us are anyway. The race issue just stinks of political correctness!!!
pone
March 30th, 2010
3:02 pm
The census man can warsh mah balls with a warm wet rag!!
GA Native
March 30th, 2010
3:08 pm
Thanks Sigh!
It appears that “Cletus” being the liberal that he is does not understand that if he wants to be seen as anything but the idiot he appears to be he should stay away from such juvenile post. Now, I am off my lunch break and have to go back to work and pay for Cletus’ ripple or Mad Dog – whichever he prefers.
t
March 30th, 2010
3:39 pm
A guy on here asked “Why is President in lower case letters?”. Aren’t you the same people who insisted on calling President George W. Bush, “Mr. Bush” and not “President Bush”? I believe he was President and deserve the same respect. Just more proof that no one can say anything bad about liberals. More proof that liberals can only dish out criticism and not take it any criticism to any of their ideas or actions.
Ignorance at it's best
March 30th, 2010
4:06 pm
GA Native you suck! Crawl back into your griswall station wagon and head back to your real home town of Tubalow Ms!
ieee
March 30th, 2010
4:27 pm
As a person listed on one of our country’s glorious, panacea SEX OFFENDER REGISTRIES, I will not be completing the census. No one wants me around, F them if they think I’ll contribute to anything. The retroactive punishment and harassment of the SEX OFFENDER laws is illegal, immoral, counterproductive, anti-factual, idiotic, anti-religious, and as un-American as you can get. F anyone who supports the un-American laws.
WOW
March 30th, 2010
4:37 pm
It’s is very telling when you look at the content of the coments – by more than a 2 to 1 margin Liberals have more non-fact based name calling than the Conservatives. Conservatives have about 1/2 of the irrelevant nasty comments. It appears that the Indepents show true class with only a few rogue name callers. Hummmm I think I’ll vote independent in November – seem to be the better choice, if no indepent on the ballot then I’ll go to the lesser of two evils.
mike hall
March 30th, 2010
7:41 pm
I can’t wait for secession! I will move down South immediately to escape these high taxes. Long live Dixie!
PalmettoPatriot
March 31st, 2010
11:39 am
The requirement in the Constitution for a headcount has been greatly exaggerated by this new census which asks all sorts of personal questions. I don’t want the government knowing the sorts of things they ask. Must they know how many people live in my house? Ok, fine. But nothing else. This government is doing all sorts of evil things on a daily basis (like bombing innocent people in Afghanistan, stripping away our rights at home, taxing the devil out of us, etc). I really don’t trust them or want their so-called “services”. I’d be a lot better off if somehow Washington, DC would just slide into the Potomac River. That evil city is a constant menace to our prosperity, liberty and security no matter which party is in power.