Comments on: Census Day http://www.elifespaces.com/blog/2010/04/01/census-day/ eLifespaces Official Blog Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TigerMan http://www.elifespaces.com/blog/2010/04/01/census-day/comment-page-1/#comment-149 TigerMan Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:24:41 +0000 http://elifespaces.com/blog/?p=536#comment-149 summer jobs for us college students! summer jobs for us college students!

]]> By: Patrick Clise http://www.elifespaces.com/blog/2010/04/01/census-day/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Patrick Clise Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:58:05 +0000 http://elifespaces.com/blog/?p=536#comment-148 Big brother is watching and it only cost $48.55 to be counted... Oh I love our bloated bureaucracy. Big brother is watching and it only cost $48.55 to be counted…

Oh I love our bloated bureaucracy.

]]> By: FFabian http://www.elifespaces.com/blog/2010/04/01/census-day/comment-page-1/#comment-147 FFabian Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:59:42 +0000 http://elifespaces.com/blog/?p=536#comment-147 I am not sure I agree... Being a subscriber to the "great conspiracy" theories I like the old fashion way > U.S. Mail. No hacker (or corporation) will get my info other than the folks that should have it. Speaking on which... when preparing your taxes with Quicken (and others), besides the IRS, do you think these companies sell that data to credit card companies, credit bureaus, marketers, and others? When agreeing to use their software, you may have agreed to allow them to do this. Have you ever read the “small print?” Even if they did this without attaching our names > it sure is scary! :-o I am not sure I agree… Being a subscriber to the “great conspiracy” theories I like the old fashion way > U.S. Mail. No hacker (or corporation) will get my info other than the folks that should have it. Speaking on which… when preparing your taxes with Quicken (and others), besides the IRS, do you think these companies sell that data to credit card companies, credit bureaus, marketers, and others? When agreeing to use their software, you may have agreed to allow them to do this. Have you ever read the “small print?” Even if they did this without attaching our names > it sure is scary! :-o

]]> By: edopson http://www.elifespaces.com/blog/2010/04/01/census-day/comment-page-1/#comment-146 edopson Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:15:58 +0000 http://elifespaces.com/blog/?p=536#comment-146 I don’t understand why the government spends so much time and money on printing and mailing census forms when it would be so much more convenient and far cheaper in my opinion to let people just fill out census forms online. If you can file taxes online, why can’t you fill out a census form online? If nothing else, they could at least give people the opportunity to do it online first, then they could send out the mailings (which would be far less in number since most people would probably have already filled out the online form) and finally, they could send out the army of census takers to the few people that did not fill out either the online or mail in forms. All I hear these days is how green we need to be, so lets be green and save some trees! I don’t understand why the government spends so much time and money on printing and mailing census forms when it would be so much more convenient and far cheaper in my opinion to let people just fill out census forms online. If you can file taxes online, why can’t you fill out a census form online?

If nothing else, they could at least give people the opportunity to do it online first, then they could send out the mailings (which would be far less in number since most people would probably have already filled out the online form) and finally, they could send out the army of census takers to the few people that did not fill out either the online or mail in forms.

All I hear these days is how green we need to be, so lets be green and save some trees!

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