So... we just got back from the mail kiosk a few minutes ago... and here's what we found in today's mail:
We've been absolutely inundated with this crap for at least three weeks now, or ever since about a week before our birthday. Which makes us wonder why everyone is SO upset about filling out the census form. Hell, everybody and their Mom already knows most everything there is to know about us anyway, as you can plainly see. Privacy? There ain't none such.
Which makes us wonder why everyone is SO upset about filling out the census form...
ReplyDeleteIt is a constitutionally required process to enumerate the citizenry for purposes of representation in Congress.
If you're a member of this group, they'll "outreach" to you. You can't hide from them. If you're a member of that group over there, then eh whatever. Ugh, a white guy. Ugh, a Republican.
Our governmental structure presumes that the power flows ONE way...from the people, to the elected officials. Once it goes the opposite direction, and the officials start deciding who gets to vote, we're playing Josef Stalin's favorite game and you might as well just shut the whole thing down.
All those questions about race, it's just insulting. We're supposed to be blind to this crap. We might as well face the facts right here & now: The only reason it isn't a migraine-inducing problem explaining this bizarre custom of ours to the kids, is because the kids aren't curious about it. If they were, there'd be no way you could make sense of it. Are we color-blind or aren't we?
Don't throw 'em away, shred 'em. You never know who might be going through your trash...
ReplyDeleteI was getting stuff like that after I retired from active service in 93!
ReplyDeleteYeah -- there's little "good" mail anymore. Bills and junk from the strangest folks.
ReplyDeleteI just don't want to think about the census debacle anymore -- and I wish they'd stop running those darn commercials! They make me want to hurt someone. "Send in your census form so you can 'get yours'." "Don't miss out on the federal funds." Who cares about Congressional apportionment?
AAAGGGHHH!!!!!!!
Morgan: The race question is ridiculous. There's absolutely no need for the gub'mint to use that info. None.
ReplyDeleteChristina: Yup. Shred EVERYTHING!
Glenn: I don't remember getting this sort of stuff when I left active duty. That may be because Christ was a corporal back then.
Moogie: Yup.. reapportionment is ALL that matters with the census. The ads piss me off, too... for exactly the same reasons, i.e., inculcating the dependency culture.
Yeah, ok. So enumerate us. BTW, here's the definition: e·nu·mer·ate /ɪˈnuməˌreɪt, ɪˈnyu-/ Show Spelled[ih-noo-muh-reyt, ih-nyoo-] Show IPA
ReplyDelete–verb (used with object),-at·ed, -at·ing.
1.to mention separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list: Let me enumerate the many flaws in your hypothesis.
2.to ascertain the number of; count.
Says nothing about our mailing address nor any other information, like race, religion nor the last time we had a good pee.
So much for the slippery slide of big gov rules.