Census Thoughts
GorT is in possession of the 2010 Census form and I have a few thoughts on the materials provided:
1. Ok, I get it. The answers are confidential and the form is easy to complete. If nothing else the government is clear on that point.
2. According to Title 44, USC §2108, census data becomes public after 72 years and available for genealogical research. Until then they are protected from FOIA requests, the IRS, and law enforcement. Tomorrow, I’m time traveling to 2083 and I’ll let you know what the results are. Seriously.
3. No where on the form does it restrict me from answering if I am not a legal resident of the United States. No where. So when Obama comes out this fall (or whenever his administration deems that the census is complete) and declares that we have 310,435,645 people in the United States watch and see if he attributes them as “citizens of the United States”. Clearly, that will be inaccurate…just as inaccurate as the Recovery.gov website continues to be (they still haven’t corrected the numbers that they, themselves, admitted were flawed).
It would be truly interesting to do a true count of people in the United States and see how close the government estimates (note: how many “government estimates” have we seen recently been wrong? CBO numbers on deficit impacts, Stimulus money results, unemployment figures, etc.) really are. Wouldn’t it be impressive to watch several representatives have to fold up shop in D.C. and return home. Imagine the cost savings of reducing the size of the House of Representatives (yes, I think we’re likely over-estimating the legal population of the United States) and their staff, perks and extravagant travels. Maybe the Mandarin and I can work on recalibrating the orbiting mind control satellites to do a simple head count.
GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.