Have You Completed Your Census Yet?

@CopperCicada Thanks.
Good answer.

@CopperCicada Early settlers in the 1800's sometimes came here to get lost. We have a long history of people who didn't want the government to know their business. As an amateur genealogist, I can tell you they lied about their names, ages, their own bigamy, and a number of other things.

I would like to mention a song by sung by Debbie Reynolds in the movie "The Unsinkable Mollie Brown". It was called, "What was your name in the States?" In those days, the wild west was not part of the union.

Now that our entire country is, in fact, part of the union, those who refuse to fill out our census shortchange the state in which they reside for TEN YEARS!!!!

This is money for schools, roads, childcare, social welfare programs and affordable housing from the federal government...so that is why it is necessary. Books, school supplies...libraries and computers for our children...and yada yada yada.

School systems are breaking under the weight of the illegals here who don't want to let the government know they are here...just like the criminals of the old wild west...but it is their families who will suffer the most.

@4meAndyou I understand the purpose of the census. I comply.

It is still an invasion of privacy.

The open question is whether it is a necessary invasion of privacy. I can see both sides to that question.