Jeff Duncan: “the Census Bureau is proving that it is another arrogant Federal agency with a power-mad, public-be-damned attitude.…”

“the Census Bureau is proving that it is another arrogant Federal agency with a power-mad, public-be-damned attitude. Despite the huge public outcry against the personal, intrusive questions on the Census long form, the Bureau wants to keep prying with the same or similar personal questions on the form called the American Community Survey to be sent to 250 homes each month. The lame defense of questions on the long form was that these questions had been approved by Congress and that they had been asked before. Well, Congress never had a vote on the specific questions and no Member saw those questions beforehand except possibly a few on the Subcommittee on the Census. Also, if these nosy, personal questions were asked in the past, it was before the Federal Government got as big and out of control as it is today and before the age of the Internet. I guess with the computer-controlled society we have today, true privacy is a thing of the past. But the Congress should offer at least a little resistance and not allow the Census Bureau to keep butting its nose into areas that should be none of our Federal Big Brother's business.”