Indiana

If You Won?t Somebody Else Will

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

You should have received your census forms in the mail this week.   It takes about two seconds to fill the whole thing out and mail it back.  You don’t even have to pay postage.

Now I know there are some people who will get the form and throw it in the trash.  They believe the government has no business asking how many people are in their household.  Whatever.  If you are one of the people who fall into that category, let me give you something to ponder.

If  you and your friends don’t fill out the census form, the odds are pretty good that people with political opinions much different than yours will.  That means they will be counted and you won’t.  And if enough of them are counted, they will get additional representation in either Congress or the Statehouse because legislative maps are reapportioned based on population.  That means their political views will have more representation than yours.  You wouldn’t want that would you?

Of course not!  Now fill out the stupid sheet of paper and mail it back.   Because if you don’t someone you politically disagree with probably will and has.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on March 19, 2010 (boomark / email).