If you believe the near constant - and expensive - hectoring from the Census Bureau over the airwaves for last 7 months in order to get you to fill out the 2010 census, then you have to believe your local government is incompetent. Your local government may in fact be as incompetent as a Three Stooges painting crew, but does anyone seriously believe that the central planners in Washington D.C. have a better handle on local issues?
As the ads go, if you don't fill out the census form and return it, we won't have enough buses, teachers, traffic lights, roads, and will never know exactly how may licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop. If the central planners in Washington D.C. are taking care of everything, why do we need to pay the salaries of mayors, city planners, high way departments, school superintendents, and 1,000s of other state and local bureaucrats?
The ad tell us it's not about an onerous and incompetent federal government usurping state and local control, it's about the distribution - redistribution if you will - of federal funds. Well why are we sending our tax dollars to Washington D.C. for the central planners to redistribute in the first place? Why not just keep our money at home rather than let 534 clowns in D.C. decide who gets what? I know. I'm one clown short. You can decide who the one non-clownish clown is.
The purpose of the census is not to decide how many buses a community needs. By the words in our constitution, it is an enumeration to determine how many seats each state will have in the House of Representative. It should not be used as a tool for D.C. bean counters to redistribute wealth.
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Gov forms all tell us "By Penalty of Law". This week, the IRS, "By Penalty of Law, the state of Ohio tax form, "By Penalty of Law", my village tax, "BP of L", my fishing license, drivers license, auto tags, parking signs, Healthcare coming, etc,"BP of L". The BP of L is used to threathen us so we will comply. In the census the gov really wants illegal immigrants to count themselves and their families. From what I can tell there is no," By Penalty of Law" for illegals to fill it out or not fill it out. The gov says we don't want to intiminate them. If we did that they may not fill out the form. If you are a citizen," Freeze slime ball, hands up, give me your wallet!, BP of L".
Thr Griffin.
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