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Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:11 am
Kgbsucka
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Location: Gig Harbor Joined: Fri Mar 18, 2011 Posts: 1829
Real Name: Nick
I didn't have much that raised my hackles when completing the census. The insistence of declaring my ancestry kind of pissed me off. As far back as we can trace, our ancestry is primarily Scottish, but there's some English and French in the mix due to marriages. I'm not a fan of the use of hyphenated-Americans when describing people. You either are an American, or you have allegiances elsewhere.
Since they wouldn't let me leave it blank, I just entered "American", and they accepted it.
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I wish technology solved people issues. It seems to just reveal them.
The citizenship question was struck down by courts.
Don't care about the activist judges. Fuck 'em.
'Murican!
_________________ “Finding ‘common ground’ with the thinking of evil men is a fool’s errand” ~ Herschel Smith
"The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." ~ Samuel Adams
“A return to First Principles in a Republic is sometimes caused by simple virtues of a single man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. Before all else, be armed!” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:58 am
Caveman Jim
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Since they wouldn't let me leave it blank, I just entered "American", and they accepted it.
Same here.
I didn't give a response to those. Just keep clicking next. Gave one initial for wife and kid, birth year only. They only have authorization to count, that's all they get.
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Fri Mar 27, 2020 4:08 pm
Traut
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_________________ I always thought growing old would take a lot longer.....
So, when does that "Old enough to know better" shit kick in??? I've learned that pleasing everyone is impossible, but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
Fri Mar 27, 2020 5:09 pm
Selador
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Location: Index Joined: Thu Aug 23, 2012 Posts: 12963
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I think this year's census is going to be wildly off.
Today, for the third time, a census worker was here wanting to ask questions.
I told him, two others had already been here.
He still wanted to come up and 'ask some questions'.
I told him I have already done the census, and to go away.
I'm thinking each one of those people are going to get paid for having 'questioned me'. And wondering if each has done something just a bit different to the form, to make it look like a unique census questioning. (Again, to be sure they get paid.)...
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Thu Aug 27, 2020 1:42 pm
AR15L
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No, the door knockers get paid by the hour, not by the head. I think the problem is this time they gave the door knockers iPhones instead of laptops to do their jobs. Last year I used a laptop along with others and not one time was their a problem.
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Thu Aug 27, 2020 2:27 pm
MadPick
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Location: Renton, WA Joined: Sun Mar 13, 2011 Posts: 51919
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Today, for the third time, a census worker was here wanting to ask questions.
Damn, they're serious about this! Going to the ends of the earth, way beyond civilization's borders!
It isn't that they'r serious. It's that they're disorganized as fuck. My mother is one of the folks going door to door this year, and, unfortunately, she's the type of person that wants to actually do her job well, which makes working for the census rather difficult.
I think this year's census is going to be wildly off.
Today, for the third time, a census worker was here wanting to ask questions.
I told him, two others had already been here.
He still wanted to come up and 'ask some questions'.
I told him I have already done the census, and to go away.
I'm thinking each one of those people are going to get paid for having 'questioned me'. And wondering if each has done something just a bit different to the form, to make it look like a unique census questioning. (Again, to be sure they get paid.)...
If three people came up, you didn't get counted three times, it just means your address was still listed as an "open case," so it got assigned to somebody.
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