If you’re like me, you long ago wearied of the Census Bureau’s nagging as well as that from the corporate media to assist the Bureau in its robbery:
As Dallas prepares for the 2020 census, organizers are trying to reach people … to make sure that every person is counted. Money and political power are at stake.
If the population of Texas is undercounted by just 1 percent, Texas could miss out on $300 million annually in federal funding for services like the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program…
How offensive! As if implying that we’ll cooperate with thieves as they divvy up the loot doesn’t insult us:
The federal government allocates more than $675 billion each year to states and cities, based on their census responses. States get about $3,000 for each person who responds.
Indeed, many articles make it sound as if the enumeration’s sole purpose is dividing the Feds’ plunder:
Why Filling Out the Census Matters
Filling out the census helps determine how much federal money is allocated to local communities, according to experts. …
Census and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams, a former Georgia lawmaker who ran for governor there in 2018, …[said] this summer that ″if you believe that we need to change and need to make progress, the money and the political will is determined by the census.″
″It is the source of economic power and political power, particularly for those who are on the margin or who are the least likely to have power,″ [said] Abrams …
Almost as infuriating as the assumption that we’re all crooks are the appeals to the Constitution:
The U.S. Constitution empowers the Congress to carry out the census in “such manner as they shall by Law direct” (Article I, Section 2). The Founders of our fledgling nation had a bold and ambitious plan to empower the people over their new government. The plan was to count every person living in the newly created United States of America, and to use that count to determine representation in the Congress.
Enshrining this invention in our Constitution marked a turning point in world history.
As if these hypocrites give a rotten fig for the Constitution.
Supposedly, the counting ceased two days ago, unless a lawsuit succeeds in reviving it. Quick: somebody drive a stake through the Census’ heart.
12:49 pm on October 7, 2020
