Dear Wingnuts, Teabaggers, and Militias: Please Resist Census Oppression!

You've got this all wrong. It costs the Census about a buck or so to process your form when you mail it in. But if you don't, and they have to send someone to your door, it costs $56, on average (I've read). So the trick is for everybody to do their part to stimulate the economy by NOT sending in their form! If even half the people of Ohio did this, think of the money that would flow to our beloved state as an army of census workers invade every city, town, and hamlet! Millions and millions. Better yet, tell the nice government worker that you're busy and could they please come back tomorrow. Two trips! $112! Woot!

Eric, I'm sympathetic to the basic idea behind the Tea Party Movement (smaller government and maximum liberty – but I'm not a member), although I'm a little less forgiving than you if, for instance, a person collecting Social Security advocates for the abolition of Social Security. They have no choice but to participate, and since they've paid the money in, they ought to get it out. I liken it to an autoworker for GM admitting that the cars they build are junk, as long as that person isn't actively trying to build crappy cars. That's like the Tea Party member agitating for smaller government, but, as you've pointed out, “Keep your government hands off my Medicare!”.

With the census stuff, you realize of course I'm busting the chops of those (in both parties) who want the government to spend borrowed money to stimulate the economy, right? Anybody who supported the stimulus bill last year ought to see the righteous logic of my comment.

And if you're wondering, I'm not answering the census, since I don't support the circle-jerk system of taxation and lobbyist-based redistribution of people's wealth to benefit the rent-seeking corporate fascists who have captured the regulatory state.