Mari
2009-02-14 07:32:23
This is being cast as a battle between agencies when that is not the issue. What is dangerous about the census is the information it gathers, not who controls it. I don’t want George Bush’s administration to have that information, either. Have you seen it? It’s 14 pages long.
They want to know how many bathrooms you have and what you majored in in college. Change the census back to only the barest essentials. Mandate that it count how many people are in your home at that moment, period. Then you’ve de-clawed the whole thing. The lawsuit has to be about the citizen’s right to privacy. Not which department gets to run it. This step would go a long way towards shrinking government, as well.
