[Plantagenet]

It takes 1,200,000 people in 2010 under Obama to do the same job that 400,000 people did in 2000 under Clinton?

No wonder Clinton was able to balance the budget while Obama is producing the largest deficits in history!

[copious.abundance]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'A')nd while constitutionally required, some people think the census is being used to inflate the jobs numbers -- hiring too many people, firing and hiring them over and over, etc. If that's true, it's like a pseudo-stimulus.

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', ' ')Remember, we need something like 220k added per month just to keep up with population increase, and that wouldn't even make a dent in the millions currently unemployed.

[the48thronin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'W')here I'm working I certainly have not seen any one just sitting around. The computer system up until a few days ago has been very touchy and crash prone. As a result we are working of a large back log of NRFU (Non Response Follow UP) forms prepared by the counters.

My rough guesstimate is it costs about $50 to $70 extra to go out and get the info from every Household that did not bother to send in their original mailings. With a 70 percent response rate that adds up to well over a billion wasted tax dollars just become some idiot was to lazy to fill out his census form. Sometimes the counters end up going out six times just to get one count.

Bottom line, you are paying more taxes because others are lazy.

[careinke]

They had some serious computer problems. Two years ago they had to abandon the system they were planning to use. A whole new system had to be built in less than two years. I can tell you it is not very polished. Reports generate incorrectly, so a lot of manual reporting takes place. Inputing data could be greatly streamlined, but they just flat ran out of time. LOTS of effort is going into ensuring the data is accurate.

I actually received two census forms in the mail. I mailed my first one back right away and got a second one about two days later. A lot of my neighbors also got two forms. Which shows that something was weird about the mailings.

[IslandCrow]

All this sounds like it would be a good idea and save money to have id-cards

....Now running for a secure hid out from all the libertarians

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattS', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '
')To get back to a 5% unemployment rate, we would have to create 15 million jobs. At 450,000/month, about 3 1/2 years. If you take the best year in the last ten (2006), you get an average monthly growth of 232,000.

A bit short.

[Questionmark]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'I')t takes 1,200,000 people in 2010 under Obama to do the same job that 400,000 people did in 2000 under Clinton?

No wonder Clinton was able to balance the budget while Obama is producing the largest deficits in history!

[Questionmark]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'I') actually received two census forms in the mail. I mailed my first one back right away and got a second one about two days later. A lot of my neighbors also got two forms. Which shows that something was weird about the mailings.