Moody Eye View

  LOS ANGELES (AP) – A computer system that the Census Bureau needs to manage its door-to-door count of the U.S. population remained buggy and prone to crash a day before enumerators were set to begin their work, government officials said Friday.

The bureau’s Paper Based Operations Control System did not function reliably in tests and, despite hardware and software upgrades, “may not be able to perform as needed under full operational loads,” the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report.

“So far, it is not as stable as it needs to be,” GAO Strategic Issues Director Robert Goldenkoff said before the start of a congressional hearing on the census.

The paper-based system’s hasty design began in early 2008, after the census bureau scrapped plans to use a handheld-computer method that ended up costing more than $700 million but did not operate adequately.

The system will generate assignments for the roughly 635,000 enumerators hired to visit about 48 million homes to tally people who did not return their census forms by mail.

Instead of getting instructions from the cell-phone like handheld machines, enumerators will receive assignments on printouts.

Returning to paper-based method boosted the cost of the census by about $3 billion that using the handheld computers was supposed to have saved. From high tech to old school to being run by fools..

Eye View Unintended Consequences Alert!! 

The recent passage of the Az bill allowing Az law officers to enforce the current laws, will cause an unintendedented consequence in Ca. and Tx. Illegal aliens will start to relocate and move to friendly areas such as CA and Tx. This in effect, will make the ongoing Census obsolete. The Eye View request a new Census study in 6 months to add the additional illegal aliens recently relocated to Ca.. At the same time Az needs to reduce their number.

“Just like we can’t survive without roads and bridges, the country doesn’t function well without an updated Census to distribute funds to areas that most need them and to support community decisions about their own future.”

– – Robert M. Groves, Director of the United States Census Bureau

The Director has spoken..We will have an increased number of illegal aliens, so do a recount and show us the money.. Thank you..

The temporary uptick in employment created by the hundreds of thousand of new seasonal census employees has created better jobs numbers for now. In the mean time, the stock speculators seeing the uptick are now driving up the price of oil. This increase in oil prices will be reflected by an increase in gas prices. So basically the ongoing census project has given us  hugely overrun budgets, as well as awful commercials, and now higher gas prices. So probably the price of gas will be higher long after the seasonal employees are let go.The gift that keeps on giving………. You can count on that..

The latest Census commercial states “fill out and return your census form, because if we do not know how many people  there  are, how will we know how many roads to build.” Maybe they should say “fill out and return your census form, otherwise, we will not know how many people will  need health care.”

Whoops….This flys in the face of heath care estimates..