According to the GOP, the American Community Survey is intrusive, but transvaginal ultrasounds are not...
Rarely does a day go by where the Republican Party doesn't showcase they're living in la-la land. Nothing may illustrate this point more than a bill introduced by South Carolina Representative Jeff Duncan last week, which would all but do away with the U.S. Census Bureau. More specifically, this bill would only allow the U.S. Census Bureau to conduct surveys for a decennial population count. All other surveys would be barred. Of course, this bill hardly has any chance of passing both the House and the Senate, let alone getting signed by President Obama. To even propose such a bill, though, is a big bowl of Looney Tunes with two sides of nuts. Former director of the U.S. Census and current professor of public affairs at Columbia University - Ken Prewitt - said the following about the proposed bill - "They simply wouldn't exist. We won't have an employment rate. I don't know how the market reacts if there is suddenly no unemployment rate at the start of the ...