Bachmann gets GOP blowback from census stand

Posted at 2:50 PM on July 1, 2009 by Tim Pugmire (2 Comments)

Roll Call reports that three House Republicans are asking Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., to rethink her decision to boycott the 2010 Census.

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When I had a small acreage and got invasive questionnaires from the USDA, I'd just make up stuff, claiming I produced tons of strawberries. That was the way I told the bean (and other commodity) counters at the Ag Dept. that it was "none of your blankity blank business what I do with my land." The Census bureau and other agencies have gone far, far beyond the "enumeration" mandate of the Constitution, and if you think the government will keep its promise to collect the information only for statistical purposes, or whatever, and will not allow your private information to be connected to you, then I suggest you talk to the thousands of Veterans whose very private information got loose last year. This is the government that also can't keep track of billions of dollars it's tossed around in Iraq. (Feel free to come up with your own examples of government incompetence when it comes to managing information, money, ANYthing.)

Federal and state bureaucrats like to boast of how the detailed census information is needed, to better disperse federal moneys. That they don't see the problem with such statements illustrates how far this nation has plummeted from the plans of the founders. Federal money is NOT "free;" it comes from US--"we the people"--with strings, interest, and all manner of consequences attached. So we ought run from anyone who says they want information from us, just to better "help us." Adolf Hitler first collected information on gun ownership to "help" people. Then he used those lists to "help" them surrender those guns to the Reich, all for their "own good," of course. And those who weren't excited about giving up their guns, he "helped" onto the trains to the death camps.

Well, we're not a Reich, yet, but we are far more like 1930's Germany, than we are unlike it. Cheers to Michele Bachmann for having the backbone, and other "B" parts, to stand up to the info-Gestapo, and a pox on the three Republican males, lacking those same parts, who are trying to call her off. These are: Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia, and John Mica of Florida. Too bad that first one's name has the "Mc" in it, else the irony would be too much. "Give me liberty or . . . hey, forget liberty. Give my district lots of government goodies, and I'll do whatever Washington asks." Maybe Patrick McHenry has consumed too many Big Macs to remember the courage of his almost-namesake; a courage that most in Congress today have forgotten--Republicans and Democrats alike. There are things on which I will disagree with Rep. Bachmann, but on this, I say, "count me in," or "count me out" or . . . well, you get the point.

Posted by L. Amelio | July 2, 2009 6:28 PM

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GO Michelle! Don't give those spineless traitor RINOs an INCH. You SHAME them with your courage. All that is required by the Constitution is to tell how many people reside at the address. Period.

I received one of those "American Community Survey" mailings, last year, and I didn't answer it, right away. The calls and the "visits" started coming. Finally, under name (Last name, first), I put "Resident, Current," and then TWO (the number of people in the household), and nothing more. I mailed it in and haven't heard anything, since. I'd LOVE for them to come after me, legally. Then we could put this thing to rest once and for all.

That's all they'll get from me, each and every time! It's all the Constitution requires.

Posted by Gregory K. Sloat | July 6, 2009 1:55 AM

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