by Bob McCarty
Despite reports last fall that the Census Bureau had severed ties with community-organizing group known as ACORN, Americans might want to think twice before opening their doors to canvassers for the 2010 Census after reading what I discovered this morning.
According to a report issued by the Government Accountability Office Oct. 7, approximately 785 employees with disqualifying criminal records could still end up working for the Census Bureau this year. Excerpts (below) show the exact wording of the agency’s frightening information about the people who go door to door conducting interviews and collecting information for the 2010 Census:
The Bureau’s efforts to fingerprint employees, which was required as part of a criminal background check, did not proceed smoothly, in part because of training issues. As a result, over 35,000 temporary census workers — over a fifth of the address canvassing workforce — were hired despite the fact that their fingerprints could not be processed and they were not fully screened for employment eligibility.
…of the prints that could be processed, fingerprint results identified 1,800 temporary workers (1.1 percent of total hires) with criminal records that name check alone failed to identify. Of the 1,800 workers with criminal records, approximately 750 (42 percent) were terminated or were further reviewed because the Bureau determined their criminal records — which included crimes such as rape, manslaughter, and child abuse — disqualified them from census employment.
…we estimate that approximately 785 employees with unclassifiable prints could have disqualifying criminal records but still end up working for the Bureau
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7 comments:
And they want us to give them information, yeah right.
I really do not get this "anti-Census" deal that the right is all in a blather about. Are you so
anti-Government that you will believe everything they do is designed to be against you? Have you had these feelings all of your life, or did these only develop after November 4, 2008? Do you boycott the Postal Service? All Laws and Regulations, or just the ones you disagree with?
I can't figure out where the patriotism ends and the hypocrisy begins.
anonymous 11:20, I wouldn't say everything but I would say most everything.
Are you so blind you can't see what's happening to this country?
Now I'm not at all saying it's all Obama. I will point fingers at all presidents.
However, Congress is out of control with their lies and pork.
Remember, most poloiticians go into office middle class. They reture some of the wealthiest people at least in this country, if not on earth.
Yeah, I'm real paranoid. No, it's more like, I'm not going to take any more of their crap. In the mean time there will still be many people like you that will go to work, send your wife off to work, rent rooms in your home and over your garage just to make ends meet. You'll stand side by side with Idiots like Jim Rapp and post signs to kill the local geese population because they poop too much. Did he forget to tell you he used to put 150 pounds of duck chow into feeders on the river that attracted the geese to not only come around every day but to stick around all winter too.
There's always something behind their carasmatic BS, you just have to be smart enough like me to find out what it is.
Why not just fill it out when you get it in the mail? Then they do not have to come to your house.
A local Census "boss" came into WAWA last month boasting about $13/hr jobs and stating that 4 million would be hired. The prospective employee has to attend 4 days of training, then take a 28 question test. THE TRAINEE NEEDS ONLY TO GET 10 OUT OF 28 CORRECT! Really?
I agree with Joe. We all need to be paranoid and stand up for our constitutional rights. We have been lied to many times; enough is enough. The old saying goes: just because you are paranoid does not mean you are not being followed. slf
The ONLY information I will give the census is how many people live in my home and their names and ages.
They do not need anything else.
If you've ever pulled up a census report for doing genealogical research, you'll see how much information they need. They don't need to know where you work, they don't need to know how much money you make or anything else.
I will give them what they need to be counted so that my state has the opportunity to request X number of funds from the federal government based on population.
That's it!
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