Leave the U.S. Census Alone! The Obama Administration is considering moving control of the U.S. Census, again due to begin April 1, 2010. Into the hands of Professional politicians, specifically Obama chief adviser David Axelrod and Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Axelrod by his own admission on Sunday news programs Meet the Press and Sunday with Chris Wallace said he and Emanuel were not Census professionals. And assured their hosts the Census would not be politicized, sure, and I’ve got $50 million to burn!
Individual States sense 1789, the year congress first met have manipulated and misused State Census data for Gerrymandering. A scrupulous means by which Politicians of all Party’s have misused the Census, Geographic’s, Demographic studies of States, Gerrymandering. The Founders intended the Census a nonpartisan and nonpolitical necessity of operating a federal Government and guaranteeing a reasonable fair balance of ‘The Peoples Representation’ to Congress. The Founders wrote the Census into the Constitution with no political Party in mind.
However there’s a ‘But.’ But then, there always is. The Constitution left control of the Census in the hands of Congress. “[An] Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.” Who makes the Laws, Congress. There’s no more a group of diverse polarizing political bubbleheads then that of which we see in Congress. A body of politicians that have consistently rated lower public opinion scores than former President Bush. This sways both ways, during the Republican and Democrat reins of power.
Regardless of which side of the fence you sit. Politicians should remove themselves from any part of the U.S. Census taking, and resulting data summaries. David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are professional politicians whose loyalties lie with the Party, not necessarily the People. Yes the administrator of the Census is a Cabinet member of any Administration, and the Constitution gives control of the U.S. Census to the Laws enacted by Congress. But better men, and women, better minded politicians, and true representatives of the people, would assure the people of a clean and fair U.S. Census, Always…Should they not?
I’m Dr. Quack with the harsh cry of reason…21709
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