The next US Census is in 2010.  So, why are census workers being laid off now?

To a outsider, like myself, I would think that they would be hiring people for the census, since the census will be starting soon, not laying people off, since I would think that would only happen when the work was done.

So, who will do the job?

Do Census Layoffs Clear the Way for Hiring of ACORN Workers?

ACORN again.  Because they are just so honest (cough, cough).  Aren’t these the same people who are being investigated in multiple states for voter fraud?  The same who should carry some of the onerous for the problems in the real estate market, since they were pressuring banks to loan to people who clearly would never pay?  The same people who are now breaking into private property (foreclosed homes) and moving people in?  (Even on their own website, they proudly announce this illegal act.)

But these are the same people that Obama trusts to run the census.  Does anyone else feel sick to their stomachs?

Remember when the Obama administration lied about the extent of ACORN’s involvement in the 2010 Census?…

Now today the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the layoff of Census workers comprised the bulk of the jobs just lost in the federal government. The July 2 Employment Situation Summary states: “Employment in federal government fell by 49,000 in June, largely due to the layoff of workers temporarily hired to prepare for Census 2010.”

What’s wrong with this picture? The federal government isn’t exactly on an austerity binge right now.

Given that the Obama administration lied about ACORN’s involvement in the Census, it might be lying now about the laid off workers being temporary employees. Is the way being cleared for ACORN workers to be hired?

If the administration hadn’t tried a few months ago to move oversight of the Census into the White House and then lied about ACORN and the Census, the news of the layoffs would not have caught my attention.

However, the Obama administration did attempt the Census power play and it did lie about ACORN’s involvement in the Census, so reasonable observers have every reason to be suspicious.

And former ACORN organizer Gregory Hall recently warned in a Washington Examiner op-ed about the dangers of letting ACORN participate in the Census:

“There is no reason to believe the problems of staff mistreatment or systematic fraud will be any different if and when the federal government asks ACORN to take its show on the road to households across the country.”

Looking at the 2010 Census questions, will you be comfortable answering these to a ACORN thug?

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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