
The sheer stupidity doesn't surprise me, but the fact that she's pretty, young and seems sane does.
“I would be curious how many (census critics) are Facebookers,” says Darren Dupriest, CEO of Validity Screening Solutions, an Overland Park-based company that does background checks. Census answers are, he said, “a drop in the bucket to what people give up” on social networking sites like Facebook.
Take the wife of Fox News host Glenn Beck. In doing my research, I came across the transcript of Tania Beck’s appearance on her husband’s radio program.
Asked about the census, she said she’d go the Ron Paul route and refuse to give the census anything more than the number of people living in her house.
“Not your business,” would be Tania Beck’s answer to the government’s other questions.
So what’s a census taker to do if, in following up, there’s no way to make contact with the Becks?
How about clicking on Tania Beck’s MySpace page? There she gives her age as 28, says she has two young sons with “a lot of energy” and describes herself as the second Mrs. Beck.
Uncle Sam could probably care less about that, or that she’s a Pisces.