Posted by
Gene on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 2:47:58 AM
With all the controversy over Obama’s devious stimulus/porkulous, why get bogged down in another controversy over the national census. Who cares? 
Well, anyone in his right mind should care!
First of all, it is mandated in our Constitution that once a decade there should be a headcount to determine just how many people are residing in the United States since it’s rather important to know. The actual constitutional language reads, “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.” In compliance thereof, every ten years since 1790 said count has been tallied.
(For those keeping a population score, and someone should so inform Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as of February 10th, 2009, some 305,785,763 bodies and souls reside and live on our shores, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That number represents a semi-educated guess, an estimate, based on projections since the next national census isn’t due until 2010. It may in fact be a wild estimate due to the nation’s apparent lack of interest in how many illegal aliens have moved in.)
Secondly, for almost 220 years now, that census has been taken some 21 times by our government but by a semi-autonomous arm of our government. The U.S. Census Bureau, an agency of the the Department of Commerce, has been tasked with that responsibility since 1903.
Third, the “decennial census,” a term adopted by the government has, like all things governmental, ballooned in its scope. Rather than a mere headcount comparable to counting how many people board a plane, the Census Bureau is now charged with such disparate responsibilities such as determining data on which to base allocation of about $300 billion for state and local public initiatives–and boondoggles.
Three hundred billion dollars is a relative pittance nowadays in a multi-trillion dollar federal budget but it’s not chump change either.
Finally, and as Hamlet observed, “Ay, there’s the rub.” That justifiably-disturbed Dane was contemplating ethical obstacles to his offing himself in his consternation over family problems. America’s “rub,” hopefully, isn’t suicidal but the Barack Obama/Rahm Emanuel conspiracy does border on homicidal. 
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