What does Beck think is a "Constitutionally acceptable" question?
I filled out my 2010 Census and didn't feel that my privacy, my rights, had been infringed upon. I even filled out the part telling the Census Bureau I was "white" ( GASP! )
So what happens when a person, regardless of political stripe, doesn't completely fill out their Census form? A Census taker is likely to come to your house to ask you the remaining questions. And guess what, that costs money - taxpayer money. Glenn Beck isn't the only one who's causing this money to be spent.
Congressman Paul Broun is in on the action as well.
The congressman refused to answer questions about the sex and age of occupants, ancestry, or whether he lives in a rental or owns. “That’s none of their business,” Broun said in a recent phone interview.
“The Constitution requires the federal government to count the number of people in this country every 10 years,” the congressman said. “It doesn’t require them to ask a lot of personal information. People are very concerned about an invasion of privacy, and I have those same concerns.”
The outrage and paranoia from people like Broun and Beck doesn't seem to be resonating with their base like they had hoped.
Reps. Michele Bachmann (MN) and Ron Paul (TX) have also said that they would be answering only how many people live in their household. Luckily, it doesn’t seem that many people are taking the conservatives’ advice so far. Census director Robert Groves said that so far, he hasn’t seen any evidence of a large-scale boycott of the Census; just “1 or 2 percent of the 10-question forms returned so far have been incomplete.”
We all should know by now that not completely filling out your Census or ignoring it all together is not only illegal, but detrimental to receiving Federal funding for a vast array of needs your state/district/city may have. There could even be loss of Congressional seats.
So not that Beck and company have only partially filled out their Census, and will likely have a Census take come to their home, I wonder what they are going to say once they have been paid a visit. I don't think Beck would go so far as to shoot at somebody, but he'll likely fabricate some elaborate conspiracy that this person was doing "surveillance" of his home. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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They're such idiots. I am really wondering how their Mom's feel about them...I would be so shamed if they were my son.
I'm fairly confident that if he did indeed fail to fill out his form (questionable), he'll be fully compliant when the census worker comes around.
I'm also fully confident that the tale he'll tell on his show will be a lot different from the reality.
He's just playing the suckers for all he can, and doesn't much care what the consequences are.
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