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The 2010 Census

In an effort to earn a little extra cash, I decided to help out with the 2010 Census.  Sure, the work is mildly degrading, but at $15 dollars an hour for very little work, I decided to give it a go.  I thought that most of the other people working with the Census might be college students looking for some extra cash, or recently unemployed professionals also looking for a little extra green.  My assumptions were completely incorrect.

The Census apparently draws in people who, let’s just call them below average intelligence.  I don’t want to come off as some arrogant intellectual who thinks that everyone else is dumber than I am; this is truly not the case.  But believe me when I tell you that the incompetence that runs rampant among Census workers is stunningly scary.  These are literally, people that have to be instructed how to properly enter their name on a Census form.  I think that a requirement for employment with Census must be that you are able to fill out a Census form without assistance.  I am truly scared for the future of this country.  I am not sure if people have always been this dumb and I just never realized it, or if I have just been blind to the rampant ignorance flooding our society.

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