YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE ... Big Brother asks: 'Do you have a flush toilet?' Mandatory Census survey inquires about citizens' difficulty undressing, bathing Posted: May 27, 2009 11:00 pm Eastern
The federal government is forcing 3 million Americans to disclose sensitive, personal information about finances, health and lifestyle in a 14-page survey – including questions about availability of household flush toilets and difficulty with undressing and bathing.
The 2009 American Community Survey, an annual supplement to the decennial Census, asks about residents' personal relationships and whether a home has hot and cold running water, a flush toilet, bathing facilities, appliances and phone services. It also asks how many rooms are in a home and what vehicles are used at each household.
The new questionnaire asks respondents what they pay for electricity, gas, water and sewer every month and whether residents receive food stamps.
Question 16 asks, "About how much do you think this house and lot, apartment, or mobile home would sell for if it were for sale?"
Respondents are required to disclose costs associated with rent or mortgage, annual real estate taxes on and fire, hazard and flood insurance expenses.
For each person in the household, the questionnaire asks for citizenship status, education level, whether that person attends private or public schools. It also features questions about health coverage, hearing and vision impairment and physical, mental or emotional conditions.
It asks if residents "have difficulty dressing or bathing" or "doing errands alone such as visiting a doctor's office or shopping" or whether they have difficulty making decisions. Respondents must indicate if they have served in the military, their current marital status and whether they have been married or given birth to children in the last 12 months. The Census Bureau claims its question is used as a "measure of fertility" and is used to "carry out various programs required by statute, including … conducting research for voluntary family planning programs."
The letter asks where residents worked last week and whether they drove a car, rode a bus, subway railroad, ferryboat, taxicab or bicycle to get there. It then asks what time they left for work and how long their commute lasted.
let me just say---WTF.....do we know why this will be easy.....everyone thinks it's okay to 'disclose' everything about themselves,,,,as if they are on a reality show and at any given moment a camera will be brought forward and Ashton Kutcher or Simon Cowell or the Rock of Love Bus will pull up.... or better yet while giving the info they can tweet to their friends about what they doing at this minute, because,,,,"I'm sooooooo narcistic"....they wont look up......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
I don't know about the rest of this country but I will refuse to answer any question that doesn't pertain to the census.
I'm with ya on this one, but we will have to start saving our $5,000 now to pay for the fine!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The more information I give them the less freedom I have! I will not answer those questions that I feel are an invasion of privacy. Big brother is to big already.
In regards to Food Stamps that is a federally run program you'd think they would already have a database of who uses them etc.
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