Senseless Bureau

Thursday, November 17th, 2005 | Uncategorized

So I was over at a friends house tonight. We were playing a new videogame I had just bought (yes I said bought…. I do occasionally spend money on those things). My friend warned me that “some annoying, sexist old lady” was coming over to ask him a ton of questions again. I probed as to what for and he said it was a Census Bureau survey.

Now he said she had already been over once and was asking him all sorts of ridiculous questions. Well luckily his wife showed up before the annoying old lady and we were able to keep playing videogames, but I would occasionally hear the questions this lady was asking, and DAMN, what a crock of shit!

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t the purpose of the Census to tell what the population is??? Well this lady was asking how much music they download off the internet, how much they spent on a vacation, and how much on gas and meals for that vacation. She asked how much they spend a month on alcohol and the type of alcohol they spent it on.

Now there was a lot more, this lady was there for over an hour, and this was her second time coming over to probe into their personal life. Now my friend believed that this was required by law to complete, which it’s not or he probably wouldn’t have done it. I mean there is a “short form” that only asks like 5 questions or so, that they give people who don’t want to spend the time talking to them, and then most people don’t actually mail those in.

I just have to throw my 2 cents in, if they can go around and talk to total strangers and get the kind of information out of people that they were asking then I believe it to be an ultimate power job. If I were a robber, or an assassin, or a private investigator, irs agent etc… I would simply go to people’s door (or hire somebody else to do it) and say I am with the Census Bureau. I would just get a copy of their bullshit sheets and would then have pretty much every detail about their life.

Hell If I had money I could simply “make friends” with somebody inside the Bureau and get them to provide me with that information.

I am not paranoid by nature (though technically I should be by nurture….), but listening to that lady ask questions that I wouldn’t ask my own family without damn good reason, I became that way. I guess I believe that I am entitled to SOME privacy, and don’t feel that anybody has a right to know some things about the way I choose to live my life and spend my time and money.

Remember kids, just say no to people who ask you probing questions that they have no need to know.

               

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