I am reposting this because of my own personal experience with the census bureau…
Firstly I would like to say that each and every one of my neighbors who came to census us were very polite [we knew most of them]…and were also very easy to talk to…
I had already decided that I didn’t want to answer anything except for how many people live here…Some people like my son would question “why”?… He loves to argue with me, lol.. being a fully fleged 20 yr old, and so is a good sounding board.
On this one he said…”Hey!…What if I want to know how many Mormans live in the United States?” or etc…blah blah blah… His point being…”Why didn’t I just answer the “damn” questions and be done with it!!…My answer was.. “Because I have the Constitutional right to decide whether I want to answer the questions or not….[see George Carlin's video on rights here[ George Carlin on America ] …it’s a Hoot!!… Seriously]…So watch the video so you kinda get the grasp of what are called “Rights” or “God given Rights”…
Being the oldest of five and raised by a lifer Lt.Cornel in the AF [dad was a pilot and Nam vet] and my mom who was the principal of a Catholic school…well you can see I was bred to question everything and test all boundries…Do I know that the government already has all this info about me?…OMG…If you are reading this and on the internet than you must know they do…and if you don’t well…better wise up but it’s too late…The point being I had the so called “right” to say no~
On to the census… I had not one, not two, but five people come down my driveway marked “Private” and come to my door to ask me questions…The first time, someone else answered the door, when I heard who it was I said…”Ohh, came on in and have a seat.”…They started on the spiel by saying do you live at such and such address to which I replied…well…the county hasn’t decided [which they haven't] we have one platt number and a different address….Then I just interrupted and said I will answer one question and one question only and that is how many people live in this house, that is my constitutional right….and BTW when someone asks that………. Since *when* did anyone have to have a constitution or even a “God” to give us rights…Aren’t we born with them?” …They did always said they understood my rights…well till the last guy…But anyway after the first one came a supervisor came to make sure that we were asked everything correctly and proceeded to re-ask every such and such question….or try anyway…I interrupted with the same answer… no problem…and again…till the last who said, “I totally understand, but DO YOU understand that it’s illegal to not answer these questions?…and gave me a piece of government paper..to which I duly noted and read that the government did in fact try to tell me that it WAS illegal to not “Duly Comply”…I said well I disagreed and he said, ”I understand, just had a fellow right over there [pointing] say the same thing…and he had been visited ELEVEN times.”…..Another person I know here was visited at his business NINE times [NOT a home]…and there you go…would you consider this harassment for so many DIFFERENT individuals to drive down a private drive, look around, come in your house [invited of course by me] and ask questions concerning income, phone number [hell no]…etc…? This is my rebuttal to the person who questioned this video…
~jude/rockingjude
This is an expose’ of the Census Bureau. This video itemizes the fundamental
legal questions that the Census Bureau refuses or fails to answer about its
collection and use of personal information from every American (see questions
Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren’t just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy – they’re re-creating the conditions for another crash…
BY: MATT TAIBBI
Illustration by Victor Juhasz
On January 21st, Lloyd Blankfein left a peculiar voicemail message on the work phones of his employees at Goldman Sachs. Fast becoming America‘s pre-eminent Marvel Comics supervillain, the CEO used the call to deploy his secret weapon: a pair of giant, nuclear-powered testicles. In his message, Blankfein addressed his plan to pay out gigantic year-end bonuses amid widespread controversy over Goldman’s role in precipitating the global financial crisis.
By Gregory Meyer
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
When the US commodities regulator sought public input last year on a plan to damp oil speculation, most of the hundreds of missives it received were not about energy, but silver and gold.
One letter read: “I know your time is precious so I will make my request short and sweet. Please limit concentrated short positions in the silver futures market. This will allow the little guy a fighting chance against powerful market manipulators.”
“When you’re successful it brings envy,” Corzine, 63, said today in aBloomberg Television interview. “People are broadly frustrated with the financial institutions, and since it is the leader of the industry and has shown great success over a long period of time, I think it’s more vulnerable.”
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — The U.K. has produced notable economists over the years, but John Maynard Keynes, the guru of government intervention, was one of truly global significance.
So it may be fitting that the U.K. will also become the deathbed of Keynesian economics.
Britain has been following the mainstream prescriptions of his followers more than any developed nation. It has cut interest rates, pumped up government spending, printed money like crazy, and nationalized almost half the banking industry.
While bank bailouts fatten Wall Street, states continue to battle the credit crisis. In the search for innovative solutions, some political candidates are proposing that states generate their own credit by setting up their own banks.
State budgets for 2010 face the largest shortfalls on record, totaling $194 billion or 28 percent of state budgets; and 2011 is expected to be worse. Unemployment has already officially hit 10 percent, and many economists expect it to rise higher. Continued high unemployment will keep state income tax receipts at low levels and increase demand for Medicaid and other essential services states provide. The existing alternatives are spending cuts or tax increases, but both will just serve to make the downturn deeper. When states cut spending, they lay off employees, cancel contracts with vendors, eliminate or lower payments to businesses and nonprofit organizations that provide direct services, and cut benefit payments to individuals. The result is a reduction in overall demand. Tax increases also remove demand, by reducing the amount of money people have to spend.
The governments of every major nation are going to default on their debts. There are two relevant questions: (1) How? (2) When?
Establishments around the world all deny this. They have gained power and wealth by means of the expansion of government. They have justified their success by insisting that the government-business alliance is the only way to establish economic growth and economic security for the masses. This claim rests on a more fundamental claim, namely, that an unhampered free market is destructive of economic stability and will inevitably lead to economic depression.
Reading carefully through she notices that basically the two largest banks and Freddie and Fannie are now actually backing a company named ESSENT which is a mortgage quarentorto back loans that lenders plan to place with the government-owned mortgage companies.~got that?
~jude
By Jamie McGee
Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — Essent Group Ltd., the mortgage guarantor backed by JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., will capitalize on a housing-market rebound and tighter standards instituted by money-losing rivals, said Mark Casale, the insurer’s chief executive officer.
Essent, which said today that government-owned mortgage companies agreed to take the loans it insures, joins the industry after competitors have recorded two years of losses on loans they backed before standards improved. Essent plans to begin selling policies in the second quarter, Casale said today in an interview.
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