The Census Consensus

The Census Consensus

The consensus on the census is that it’s getting all screwed up.

You had to know something would go awry when the White House wanted the decennial head count to be headquartered in the executive mansion where Rahm Emanuel would have his sticky fingers all over the results.

Now, with months to go before it’s completed, reports are flowing in about how botched up the process is and how it’s become a phony boondoggle for many involved in tallying the number–and race–of people residing in our massive nation.

Reflecting how desperate the honchos at the Census Bureau are, George W. Bush’s “architect,” Karl Rove has been hired to do television spots urging Americans, and non-Americans, to cooperate and fill out the census form.

Our Constitution mandates it be done every ten years so there’s no debating the issue. What can be debated is how the enumeration is conducted, how fair the count is, and, especially, how accurate it is.

However, some people just don’t like filling out forms, even forms with 10 simple questions. Others forget to do it despite the billion dollar advertising effort to remind them of their consititutional duty. Still others are afraid to complete the form, principally those who shouldn’t be here in the first place and are afraid agents of the INS and ICE will break down their doors right after the census taker leaves.

No such luck.

With hundreds of billions of dollars in federal largesse at stake, not to mention the number of congressional districts a state is awarded, as Joe Biden would say, the census is a big f*****g deal but a deal already rife with corruption and evidence of mismanagement and mis-counting. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1617)