Do they really need to know, like you said, the date and time that we leave mental stability?

That would be about the time anyone enters your district.

I work across the aisle from someone who lives in her district and, judging from the noises he was making before the last election, I'm pretty sure the asshat voted for her.

It's hard to respect your co-worker when his brain is so incredibly JACKED!

"Does the federal government really need to know our phone numbers?"

I can understand your concern, Michele. If they know your phone number, they might want to tap your phone line. They might not even get a warrant first. Or they might look at your e-mails. Or look at what books you've checked out at the library or movies you've checked out from the video store. They might look at what you've searched for on the internet. Why, they might even throw you in jail without charges and not let you speak to your family or a lawyer for years!

It's insidious, I tell you. It makes you long for the good ol' days of the Bush regime, doesn't it?

Man, if it's too crazy for Glenn Beck...

She doesn't have a problem with locking up Muslims indefinitely without criminal charges, right?
Just checking.

I think it's generally a bad idea for Michelle Bachmann to say anything about mental stability.

PLEASE, folks, note that the $5000 in fines, if levied, will come directly from the citizens of this nation who DO fill out their census forms, pay their taxes, and spend their time actually working for their employers, not emulating the likes of these folks who call themselves Representatives, Congressmen/women and Senators, whose sole purpose is to use your hard earned money for self promotion.

These folks, at one time worked for us, but they are now all self employed, thinking and working only for themselves and their own goals. The public is nothing more than an income source...

THEY ARE LEACHES, folks.... IMHO

Oh man, I so cannot wait until Comrade Barack can finally suspend the Constitution, declare the People's Republic of America and start gathering up all the Enemies of the People and shoving them into the secret internment camps. It's driving me crazy that we have to wait until the census is complete to do it and, in the meantime, we have to continue this sham of legislating, as if won't just get universal health care and carbon caps by decree after the Revoution is declared. Oh, and executive compensation caps? Yeah, we'll cap those mothers, all right. Up against the Wall Street, mofos.

Hell, I'm glad she's on to us. The more of 'em who won't go down without a fight, the fewer we'll have to reeducate.

Is this some goofy set-up to objecting to using the census for redistricting purposes because so many proud Americans refused to participate?

Has Michelle Malkin weighed in on this yet? I know how vocally she was in favor of the Japanese internment camps when it was the Muslims we were going to be rounding up...

Michelle, sweetie, the telephone number question is O-P-T-I-O-N-A-L. That means you don't have to answer it if you don't want to. If you'd rather have a census worker (ACORN!!!) knocking on your door rather than calling on the phone to ask about all the other things you have failed to answer on your form, then by all means, leave it blank.

Oh, and hey: take a tip from the drug dealers. You can always buy a prepaid mobile phone, give them the number for that, and then toss it out when the census period is over.

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Not sure where this chick is coming from with regard to "Do they really need to know, like you said, the date and time that we leave mental stability?" Maybe she's just hallucinating again. The closest thing I can find to anything like that in the ACS is this set of questions (pdf), under the category "Disability" (and the publication notes that questions about disability appeared on every census from 1830 to 1930, were dropped, and then re-appeared in 1970 and have been on every census since):

16. a. Is this person deaf or does he/she have serious difficulty hearing? (Y/N)

b. Is this person blind or does he/she have serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses? (Y/N)

17. a. Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition, does this person have serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions? (Y/N)

b. Does this person have serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs? (Y/N)

c. Does this person have difficulty dressing or bathing? (Y/N)

18. Because of a physical, mental, or emotionalcondition, does this person have difficulty doing errands alone such as visiting a doctor’s office or shopping? (Y/N)

That's it. The justification for the questions, according to the Census Bureau:

MEETING FEDERAL NEEDS

Information on disability is used by a number of federal agencies to distribute funds and develop programs for people with disabilities. For example, data about the size, distribution, and needs of the disabled population are essential for developing disability employment policy. For the Americans with Disabilities Act, data about functional limitations are important to ensure that comparable public transportation services are available for all segments of the population. Federal grants are awarded, under the Older Americans Act, based on the number of elderly people with physical and mental disabilities.

COMMUNITY BENEFITS

Transportation

Disability data are used to allocate funds for mass transit systems to provide handicapped facilities.

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, local transit authorities use the data on the number of individuals with functional limitations in order to ensure public transportation services are comparable to those for individuals without disabilities.

Social Services

Under the Older Americans Act, these data assist state and local agencies concerned with aging to develop health care and other services tailored to the disabilities of the elderly.

Disability data are used by state and county agencies to plan for eligible recipients under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Employment

Data about people with disabilities are used to allocate funds to states and local areas for employment and job training programs for veterans.

So by urging Minnesotans not to answer these kinds of questions, Bachmann may be setting up Minnesota to get shorted on Federal funding, because the data are used to show where the need is. Why does Michelle Bachmann hate Minnesota?