Posted: Apr 09, 2010 9:45 am
Segundo wrote:Tyrannical wrote:Segundo wrote:Well why on earth do we fill out census forms in mind-numbing detail? Is that information useful for anything?
Well, the US was a country of immigrants, so I wouldn't consider it strange that they'd like to keep track of where people came from. Also, some immigration laws placed limits on the number of immigrants coming in from each country, based on the percentage that were previously here.
That's very interesting.
I was thinking more along the lines of the following: If a social class is growing a government would "like to know" so that appropriate provisions can be made. The provisions which need to be made for middles-class growth are different to those which need to be made for growth of the working-class population. The types of economic sectors which need enlarging will be different; the number of prisons which need to be built will be greater if the working-class grows than if the middle-class grows; the types of schools or educational/training programs which need enlarging will differ. See what I am saying?
But all of that information can be obtained from databases.
They have records of every single member of the population and their origins, all they have to do is to collect the information from their records, they won't do it because its too much work, it's a lot easier to waste taxpayers' money collecting the information from them.