You’ve Been Superpoked By The U.S. Gov’t
Published: February 23rd, 2010
By: Jim Mullen

You’ve been superpoked by the U.S. gov’t

Soon you’re going to get your 2010 census form in the mail. Some people are upset about it, claiming that it infringes on their privacy. I assume they are not the same people who are on Facebook right now posting pictures of themselves playing beer pong nude. Why is it that some people seem to care very much about privacy and others don’t seem to care at all?

If you care a lot about privacy and you’ve got a driver’s license, the big, bad government already knows your name and address, your birthday, your height, your eye color, whether you should wear glasses and if you’d like to donate your organs. Your privacy genie is already out of the bottle. And the census doesn’t care about your eye color. As a matter of fact, it only asks ten questions. My grocery store asks for way more information to apply for a Shopper’s Discount Card. They wanted my phone number, a recent tax return and a thumbprint before I could save 15 cents on a can of peas. At my local convenience store, the clerk always wants to see my driver’s license to prove that I’m 40 years older than the age required to buy a six-pack of beer. Compared to what everyone else wants to know about you, the census is a cupcake.

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