Orwellian Obama Administration Census Goals
By
WillHuntForFood
on April 2, 2009 at 10:52 am
Obama is choosing a statistics professor, Robert M. Groves, to re-design the way in which the US Census is performed. The goal is to use statistical sampling instead of actual count data to determine population in certain urban districts with high minority populations. The Obama administration says they will not use this to redraw congressional district boundaries, which is Orwellian newspeak meaning that is exactly what they will do.
Given Gary Lockes penchant for lying and Obama’s for obfuscation it is obvious they plan to use the census to aid their political agenda of a permanent Democratic majority.
“This is an incredibly troubling selection that contradicts the administration’s assurances that the census process would not be used to advance an ulterior political agenda,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. “Mr. Groves will have every opportunity to address these concerns during the confirmation process.”
When he was the bureau’s associate director, Groves recommended that the 1990 census be statistically adjusted to make up for an undercount of roughly 5 million people, many of them minorities in dense urban areas who tend to vote for Democrats.
But in a fierce political dispute that prompted White House staff to call advisers to the bureau and express opposition, the Census Bureau was overruled by Republican Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher, who called the proposed statistical adjustment “political tampering.”
The Supreme Court later ruled in 1999 that the use of statistical sampling cannot be used to apportion House seats, but indicated that adjustments could be made to the population count when redrawing congressional boundaries.
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has made clear that sampling will not be used for apportionment. He stated during his confirmation hearing that there are no plans to use sampling for redistricting, while indicating that sampling could be used to measure census accuracy or collect a wider range of demographic data.
Given Gary Lockes penchant for lying and Obama’s for obfuscation it is obvious they plan to use the census to aid their political agenda of a permanent Democratic majority.
