Anti-Immigrant Republicans Would Run Up Cost Of Census
Republican Senators David Vitter (right) of Louisiana and Bob Bennett of Utah are offering an amendment to a spending bill that would bar funds from being used for the Census unless there is a question about a person’s citizenship status. Maybe they feel this will prevent someone slipping into the country from Kenya who could one day run for president.
If successful, the change would force the Census Bureau to reprint more than 425 million questionnaires, as it had already started printing the forms in order to have them ready for distribution in early 2010. It would require software revisions, new training materials and revised promotional campaigns. And it could fuel a boycott of the Census supported by some Latino leaders as a way to protest U.S. immigration policy.
Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz of Utah is introducing a similar measure in the house.
Nah Alan, they are just creating more unneccessary jobs by running up deficits spending taxpayers’ money on redundant expansion of federal government obligations. We’re all Keynesians now, doncha know.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:44 am
+You liberals would do just about anything to undermine our republic.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:48 am
You both must be smoking the same brain-numbing crap Jared’s got in his crack pipe.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:52 am
I don’t understand where asking about a person’s citizenship is a problem. I think the taxpayers wanna know. I know I do.
Budda Reply:
October 19th, 2009 at 10:58 am
I think you are assuming you will get an honest answer to that question.
October 19th, 2009 at 9:29 am
that question has always been on the census. In 2000 it was question #13. Why was it taken off for 2010?
average james Reply:
October 19th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Much ado about nothing ?
I think I remember that question on the last one.
ok4now, I think you’re right.
October 19th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
I think Vitter should be devoting all his time and energy to investigating the ACORN prostitution scandal. I mean, if anybody knows anything about prostitution (and wearing diapers), it would be Vitter.
average james Reply:
October 19th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Indeed TDRO, indeed.
October 19th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCesaJ479Vw&feature=player_embedded
average james Reply:
October 19th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
He he he he
October 19th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
“Maybe they feel this will prevent someone slipping into the country from Kenya who could one day run for president.”
Haha, nice one, Alan.
But, really, why not ask that question? What’s wrong with it? And who cares about costs? Just pretend it’s another bailout!
October 19th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
They ‘had started’ printing the forms and there are already 425 million? How many are they printing in total? Why do they need over 425 million questionaires?
That’s already enough for every man woman and child in the US. Who else needs one?
October 19th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Look, I am about as pro-immigration as you can get. But why in the world would a count of US Citizens not ask if a person is a US Citizen?
Jeepers.
flap Reply:
October 19th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
“But why in the world would a count of US Citizens not ask if a person is a US Citizen?”
Pretty crazy, right? You’re an anti-Hispanic racist if you want to ask that question, I guess.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:04 pm