{"id":722,"date":"2010-03-12T08:12:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T15:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=722"},"modified":"2010-03-12T08:12:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T15:12:21","slug":"help-the-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/12\/help-the-census\/","title":{"rendered":"“Help” the census!"},"content":{"rendered":"

An anonymous correspondent chides me:<\/p>\n

You’re WRONG, Claire! You shouldn’t be slyly urging readers to resist the census. Instead, we should be helping<\/i> the census, just as all the ads and promos say.<\/p>\n

I live in a rural area in [state deleted] and I noticed that dedicated census workers had hung forms in big white baggies on the doorknobs of dozens of places I knew to be either abandoned or mere weekend or vacation cabins for people who live in cities.<\/p>\n

You don’t think all that effort should go to waste, do you? I sure don’t!<\/p>\n

So I helped the census by gathering forms that were getting ignored, rained on, and nibbled by raccoons. Now, thanks to one good citizen’s cooperative efforts, rural [county deleted] has an amazingly large population of Asians and Pacific Islanders, in need of those government handouts<\/a> the Census Bureau tells us we should want so much.<\/p>\n

See what a single cooperative citizen<\/a> can accomplish?<\/p>\n

So get with it, Claire. Urge your readers to give census takers all the help they can. Remember, it’s for the good of your community!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ummm … no comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An anonymous correspondent chides me: You’re WRONG, Claire! You shouldn’t be slyly urging readers to resist the census. Instead, we should be helping the census, just as all the ads and promos say. I live in a rural area in [state deleted] and I noticed that dedicated census workers had hung forms in big white baggies on the doorknobs of dozens of places I knew to be either abandoned or mere weekend or vacation cabins for people who live in cities. You don’t think all that effort should go to waste, do you? I sure don’t! So I helped the…<\/p>\n

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