Census 2020: Why You Shouldn't Jump When the Government Barks
Article 1, Section 2 of the
Constitution is clear. Every ten years
Congress is to count how many people there are in each state for the purpose of
determining how many representatives in Congress each state should have.
Question 1 of the 2020 census asks the question to meet this
goal. Quite simply, the government
wants to know how many people live in the home.
How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment, or mobile home on April 1, 2020?They even explain, satisfactorily, how this question meets the constitutional requirement of counting how many people live in the state.
Why we ask this question: This helps us count the entire U.S. population and ensures that we count people where they live most of the time as of Census Day (April 1, 2020).Question 2 is a catchall question to ensure no one is missed in the counting.
Were there any additional people staying here on April 1, 2020, that you did not include in Question 1?And they have an equally good explanation for this question.
The goal of the 2020 Census is to count everyone just once and in the right place. We want to ensure that everyone in your home who should be counted is counted—including newborns, roommates, and those who may be staying with you temporarily.I have no problem answering the first two questions. It's the questions that follow I balk at answering.
For everyone you count in the first two questions, the
government wants to know their name, gender, and age. For some reason, the government needs this information to count the number of people in your household. I reckon the government wants names so that
they can properly fill out arrest warrants, tax notices, and deportation
orders. Men count twice as much as
women because...well, that's just the way things have always been since Adam
and Eve. Women are worth half as much,
less if they aren't making dinner for their man and kids. And young people count the most for
representation purposes because they are the driving force of the economy. They have
a couple of decades to go spending their money carelessly before wizening up
and saving instead of spending. The
elderly don't count for anything at all.
Their kids put them on the nursing home doorstep where Grandma and
Grandpa can live out their golden years in obscurity and largely forgotten.
Another question wants to know the type of housing you live
in - house, apartment, or mobile home (the politically correct term for
trailer). It's not coincidental our
government listed the housing choices in descending order of highest
socio-economic standing to lowest.
Their explanation is that housing indicates the strength of our economy
and "help(s) with administering housing programs, planning, and
decision-making." That's
government speak for "helps with deciding where the tax revenue is and
where to spend the money to keep the poor people separate from the tax revenue."
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| The government needs to end labeling people based on color of their skin. Don't complicate the definition. Just stop it. |
Another question wants to know relationships in the
household. Gathering such information
combined with the other questions makes it easy for the government to track the
possible queers, illegal immigrants, and criminal element. Can you hear the radio chatter? DEA: "We have three Black males and two
Black women, all unrelated, living in a trailer on the south side. Keep an eye on them to see if there's anything we can arrest them for."
ICE: "A family of ten siblings and cousins are living in a one bedroom apartment on the bus route to the food processing plant. Follow them to work and find out if they are
here legally or not." PD: "A
gay male couple moved into a house less than a mile from the elementary
school. Keep an eye on what's going on
in that house to ensure our children are safe."
The government even asks for your phone number, ostensibly
to contact you if they have any questions about your form, "if
needed." Nope, not getting my
phone number. I don't want to talk to
the government through the census form.
I'll be danged if I'm going to talk to them on the phone.
The government, of course, claims all this information is needed to ensure money is properly spent on social programs in the communities that need them. A rogue president, however, has shown how the information can be used for nefarious reasons despite all the alleged safeguards to protect the information. Fear is a powerful motivating force to suspend the Constitution and ignore basic civil rights. You might not know what that suspicious looking family down the street is up to, but you can rest easier at night if you know the government is watching them. What happens when you learn the family the government is watching is you?
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