-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! CONGRESS ACTION: March 26, 2000 ================= NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS: "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers.. 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." -- United States Constitution, Article I, Section 2. We have arrived at the decennial Constitutional requirement that the government conduct a census. As specified, it is for the sole purpose of apportioning representatives and direct taxes. Period. Yet what does the government want to know about us? Well, there is a short form, and a long form. Which households get which form is a mystery. Both are accompanied by an official cover letter, carrying the signature of the Director of the Bureau of the Census stating: "This is your official form for the United States Census 2000. It is used to count every person living in this house or apartment -- people of all ages, citizens and non-citizens. Your answers are important. First, the number of representatives each state has in Congress depends on the number of people living in the state. The second reason may be more important to you and your community. The amount of government money your neighborhood receives depends on your answers. That money gets used for schools, employment services, housing assistance, roads, services for children and the elderly, and many other local needs." Wrong. The first stated reason is indeed the Constitutionally permissible purpose for the census. But the second? To decide the amount of "government money" your neighborhood receives? There is no such thing as "government money". Every dime that the government has is your money that the government has taken from you in taxes. Not only has the government taken more of your money than it needs (the very definition of the "budget surplus" that everyone in Washington proudly proclaims), but the government also demands that you help the welfare state bureaucrats to redistribute your money! The redistribution of wealth is what welfare state bureaucrats and leftist politicians live for, to be sure that everyone develops the mindset that only big brother in Washington can properly take care of you, your family, and your community. But as bad as that is, that's not all that's wrong with this year's politically motivated and noxious census. Let's see what else the meddling bureaucrats in Washington want to know. After the initial question about your name, telephone number, sex, and date of birth, it gets to the really pernicious questions -- accompanied by a special note: "Please answer BOTH questions." (emphasis in original): Is this person Spanish/Hispanic/Latino? What is this person's race? For what possible permissible Constitutional purpose does the census require that information? It continues: What is this person's marital status? What is the highest degree or level of school this person has completed? What is this person's ancestry or ethnic origin? Does this person speak a language other than English at home? (What possible justification does the government have for asking us what language we speak in our own homes?) How well does this person speak English? Where was this person born? Does this person have any of the following long lasting conditions: blindness, deafness, severe vision or hearing impairment, (and right out of the Americans with Disabilities Act) a condition that substantially limits one or more basic physical activities.? (The government is now everyone's doctor.) Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition.does this person have any difficulty doing any of the following activities: learning, remembering (an apt question to be directed at the prodigious number of Clinton administration officials who answered "I don't recall" in response to congressional inquiries into alleged illegal activities), dressing, bathing, etc, etc. Then follows a series of questions about grandchildren and who cares for them, service in the armed forces; then another series of questions about when, where, and how long we worked, and how we got to work, how many people rode with us to work, what time we left for work, and how long it took us to get to work (all of the last no doubt to give Al Gore ammunition in his battle against "urban sprawl" and his war on the internal combustion engine). Then questions about layoffs, recalls from a layoff, job searches, what company we work for and what industry we work in, what type of work we do and whether we are employed by government, a private company, or are self-employed (so that when OSHA reintroduces its home office worker mandates, it will know exactly whose door to knock on). How many weeks did we work and how many hours a week, and what was our income? And then detailed information about the sources and amounts of our income, including earned income, dividend income, Social Security Disability or welfare income (the Census Bureau is now an adjunct of the Internal Revenue Service). Then questions about what kind of home we live in, when it was built, when we moved in, how many rooms in our home, the type of plumbing, kitchen facilities, telephone service, what fuel we use to heat our homes and the annual cost of that fuel, the amount of our utility bills, our rental or mortgage payments, the type of insurance we carry on our home and how much we pay for that insurance, the value of our home, the property taxes on our home, and how many autos we have. Ten full pages of data is demanded -- 54 questions. And that's just for "Person 1"! We get to repeat the same exercise for Person 2, 3, and on up through Person 6. In all, thirty-eight pages of government demanded information! Followed by the unctuous "Thank you for completing your official U.S. Census form. If there are more than six people at this address, the Census Bureau may contact you for the same information about these people." No doubt. In 1997, Russia ended a practice that had dated back to Czarist Russia and had been carried through (and put to various not so innocent purposes) by the communists in the Soviet Union. That practice was to identify the ethnicity of their citizens on the internal passports that all citizens were required to carry. It was necessary for those citizens to display those internal passports when they traveled within the country, when they applied for an apartment or a job, or when they saw a doctor. Of course the United States doesn't have internal passports (yet -- recall the serious talk from this administration about a bar-coded or genetically coded National Identity Card). In the Soviet Union, that ethnic data was carried on what was called the "fifth line" of the internal passport. The Year 2000 United States census has a full ten questions demanding details of gender, race, ethnicity, language, and place of origin of the residents of the United States. When discussing why Russia had decided to drop the ethnic classification, one Russian official explained that a person's "ethnic affiliation is a personal matter." In Russia, that may be true. But that is decidedly not true to the social -- and socialist -- engineers in the government that runs America today. So people across the country, having received their inquisition from the government, are angry and confused. The Census Bureau's telephone help lines are approaching meltdown. The Census Bureau promises to hire 6000 more telephone operators, but even 60,000 more would not be nearly enough. What will people do? Many people, angered at the government's intrusions, and many more people, simply confused or overwhelmed, will answer only part of the form, or simply throw the whole thing away. And the Census Bureau will be shocked and dismayed that they aren't getting the vital information that they need. The November elections will be fast approaching, and the necessary information for the congressional apportionment will be missing. It will be -- a CRISIS! What is to be done? Ever at the ready to exploit any crisis, even one of his own making -- especially one of his own making -- the Official National Crisis-Solver will step to the fore: Bill Clinton to the rescue! Since there simply isn't enough time, or money budgeted, to print and mail out a whole new set of census forms, he will announce, we'll just have to do the best we can with what we have (for the children, of course); we'll just have to do.statistical sampling. Recall the confrontation between Clinton and Congress two years ago, when statistical sampling was first proposed by the administration. Oh no you don't, warned the Congress. The Constitution mandates an "actual Enumeration", that is, an actual count. Statistical sampling -- educated guessing -- besides being inaccurate, is just too subject to political manipulation. The Congress wasn't about to let the Master Manipulator manipulate an election by sampling the census, thus apportionment, congressional districts, and quite probably, which party would win the majority in Congress in the election. The Supreme Court agreed with the Congress, although not on Constitutional grounds. In a case decided January, 1999, Department of Commerce v. United States House, the Supreme Court held that "The Census Act prohibits the proposed uses of statistical sampling to determine the population for congressional apportionment purposes." But in all the years of experience this nation has now had with the methods and techniques of this administration, when have we ever known them to respect the law when political power and political advantage hang in the balance? The plain words of the Census Act, the Supreme Court, even the Constitution itself, mean absolutely nothing. Remember, when the Senate refused to hold Bill Clinton accountable to the Constitution and the Rule of Law following his impeachment, those Senators in effect told him that from then on, he could not be held accountable for his actions, that he was above the law and above the Constitution. What a scheme! Simply make the census form itself so onerous that nobody will answer it, and then, faced with the prospect of not being able to reapportion congressional districts for the election, insist that sampling is the only way to obtain the vital information. This writer received five separate communications from the Census Bureau. Four of the five contained various different errors in the addresses, an 80% error rate. Hardly a sparkling display of competence, to be borne in mind when they assure us about the reliability of statistical sampling. 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