Gary M Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Right http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/16/cost-census-keeps-doubling-technical-problems-government-report-says/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 The cost of the door-to-door count of the U.S. population is roughly doubling every 10 years... [...] ...the cost of doing the census soared by 62.5 percent So it roughly doubled if you roughly double the actual increase. Nice !@#$ing reporting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary M Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 So it roughly doubled if you roughly double the actual increase. Nice !@#$ing reporting. Okay, but come on, a 60% increase when the population only went up 10 percent is a little much don't you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Okay, but come on, a 60% increase when the population only went up 10 percent is a little much don't you think? Depends on why. If half your cost is tracking down people who don't turn in their census forms, and the number of people who don't turn in their census forms doubles...then no, not really. Or if government regulations created in the past ten years means you have to change a whole bunch of stuff all at once (whereas other government organizations spread that cost out over a number of years). I won't judge until know what the source of the stupidity actually is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peace Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 This "they" you talk about is "you." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary M Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 This "they" you talk about is "you." No "they" are not "me"!!! I won't judge until know what the source of the stupidity actually is. Fair enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 This "they" you talk about is "you." No "they" are not "me"!!! I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
....lybob Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 (edited) maybe this helped raise the cost Edited December 17, 2010 by ....lybob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booster4324 Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together I thought everyone was Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 I thought everyone was Tom. Toms the Walrus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Toms the Walrus. Coo-coo-ka-!@#$in'-choo, mother!@#$ers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Maybe the results are 60% more accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peace Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 No "they" are not "me"!!! Oh, I thought you were from the US. Good to know they make dunderheads in other countries too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whateverdude Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 I bet the Crap Throwing Monkey could sort this **** out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Frenkle Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 The census costs a lot and it's SCARY!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finknottle Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 So it roughly doubled if you roughly double the actual increase. Nice !@#$ing reporting. I think your ire is misdirected at the Fox piece. Fox isn't claiming costs are doubling, it is saying that the GAO report say's so. The report, released this week, warns that if fundamental reforms aren't instituted, the cost of the next census could more than double. "Indeed, the cost of conducting the census has, on average, doubled each decade since 1970, in constant 2010 dollars," the report said. "If that rate of cost escalation continues into 2020, the nation could be facing a $30 billion census." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 maybe this helped raise the cost youtube.com/watch?v=0ZS9UW0okY4 WTF are you talking about? I suppose Michelle Bachman or Glen Beck made up the 28 page form? That kind of statement is worthy of Connor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary M Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 Oh, I thought you were from the US. Good to know they make dunderheads in other countries too. I am from the US, and when I last check more than half of the US was against the Obama healthcare plan, but he forced it through with the "promise" it would lower premiums. My arguement is and always will be that the US government is not effiecient at running anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Frenkle Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 I am from the US, and when I last check more than half of the US was against the Obama healthcare plan, but he forced it through with the "promise" it would lower premiums. My arguement is and always will be that the US government is not effiecient at running anything. The larger any organization (public or private) becomes, the more inefficient it tends to become. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 The larger any organization bureaucracy (public or private) becomes, the more inefficient it tends to become. Fixed. Manufacturing and logistics organizations can achieve economies of scale as they get larger. Bureaucracies, just the opposite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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