NPR (not piano related) Census 2000

[Robin Blankenship]

Some of us don't want the government spending our money in the first place!!
Robin
----- Original Message -----
From: John Dewey <jdent@soltec.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: NPR (not piano related) Census 2000


> To give a somewhat answer to a couple of your questions. In an article in
> our news paper a census guy said the flush toilet question would help in
> targeting where to spend home rehabilitation HUD money. The what time do
you
> leave for work question would help in designing transportation
improvements.
> Both of these seem like good reasons to me. We have seen cases on this
list
> where bad advice was given because the person posing the question didn't
> give us enough data about the problem. If we want the government to spend
> our tax money more wisely they have to have data to base their decisions
on.
>
> John Dewey
>