An unexpected result for some census takers: the wrath of irate Americans

[RamboLiberal]

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So far, the Census Bureau has tallied 379 incidents involving assaults or threats on the nation's 635,000 census workers, more than double the 181 recorded during the 2000 census. Weapons were used or threatened in a third of the cases.

While most homeowners have received census takers graciously, some say they have been surprised at the degree of anger exhibited by Americans who consider them the embodiment of intrusive government.

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Among the more troubling were incidents that arose from residents' seething resentment that anyone from the government would seek their personal information.

While conducting follow-ups in an upscale Seattle neighborhood, Grover Ellis said he came across a woman who considered him an agent of Obama, not the U.S. government.

"The idea of the census just enraged her," said Ellis, 64, stressing that the overwhelming majority of people he met were welcoming and responsive. "The way she saw the census, she was required to help Obama. And she wasn't going to do anything to help out Obama."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/19/AR2010061901896_pf.html

[Hawkeye-X]

1. McDermott's district?

It's pretty safe....

[corpseratemedia]

2. the wrath of idiot Americans

spoon-fed teabagging myths

[muntrv]

3. What these teabaggers don't know is that if they don't fill out the census forms,

they won't have a teabagger representation in Congress, since they are considered non-existent.

[liskddksil]

5. or that if they had simply mailed them in the first place

then the government wouldn't have to spend the money to follow-up with census-takers.

[Codeine]

4. I wish for an endless stream of African-American women and men for POTUS,

just to watch the complete and total non-stop meltdown these teabagging fucks will experience. :evilgrin:

[MadMaddie]

6. But I thought they believed in the Constitution.....

well maybe not....