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From: Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:57:31 -0400
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From: Bradley Roberts <brad () macsuper com> Date: April 3, 2010 2:41:27 PM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Fwd: census workers
Inefficiencies of the US census, as observed directly by my mother in small town northern CA. Begin forwarded message:A friend is a census worker. He was scheduled yesterday to go to a small town, which is 80 miles away. There were 8 workers from here, meeting ahead of time to discuss the day. My friend said, well, let's carpool. The head worker said: no, it's not possible to figure out mileage for only two and not 8.... so 8 cars wasted .50 a mile (your tax dollars) and screwed up more of the environment with wear and tear on a car, more fumes, more impact on the roads, scaring more elk! Then he said, that the form is a big piece of paper, which doesn't fit on a clipboard, but could have been designed to do so with the same number of questions to fit on a clipboard... so, let's hit yet another tree. Today they meet at 8:30 at Home Depot parking lot to see if it's raining (it's pouring out). They get paid for one hour to show up - if it's raining, they cancel as they cannot get around by foot with the papers in the rain. Such trivia, such a tiny drop in a huge flood.
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