The official counting of America has ground to a halt, along with the rest of daily life. Faced with a 16.7% response rate and an inability to field the half-million door to door workers required to finish, the Trump administration has rightfully requested a delay in the official deadline to complete the census. Americans’ causal approach to participating aside, the decennial enumeration is quite essential, and getting it right, even more so.
Think of the census as America’s stock-taking. It measures elements of our nation, such as population size, ethnicity, income levels, familial makeup, and breaks them down by geographic area, race, gender, and various other categories. This inventory becomes the authoritative record, and even when the results are demonstrably false, the official count continues to drive policy decisions and dictate government funding. Most importantly, it forms the basis for reapportioning congressional districts and allocating political power.
The census doesn’t just reflect America; it shapes it.
The American Left has perfected the art of using government-produced data to advance their agenda. Government agencies have invested billions of dollars in studies aimed at validating Democrats’ man-made global warming policies. Similarly, the census is the founding data set for many other schemes. That is why partisans feverishly fought the Trump Administration’s proposal to include a question about citizenship on this year’s survey, taking the issue to the Supreme Court and broadcasting the unpublished musings of a dead man to label it as “racist.” They didn’t want an accurate count. A comprehensive accounting of the number of illegal aliens would be a set back to their socialist agenda.
Tens of billions of dollars flow to areas densely populated by illegals based on census data, even though persons residing in America without permission hold no right to federal dollars. Studies have shown that illegal immigrants cost taxpayers over $100 billion per year. A precise accounting could cause tectonic change. Imagine the funding impact that removing these people from government calculations would have for areas such as New York. Further, excluding the estimated 2.4 million noncitizens in CA could mean the left-leaning state could lose some of its 53 congressional districts and political clout in the House of Representatives. Full Story - Chris Salcedo - BPR Business and Politics
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