By: Mark A. Joppa (Mark is a tea party enthusiast in the Hudson Valley.)

It is a well known fact that Obama wanted to take control of the Census from Day One, and that the Census is run by the Commerce Department.  As in almost everything this President has done to date, streamlining the Commerce Dept. will undoubtedly wind up with the White House having more unconstitutional control.  He will introduce another 2000 page document that Congress will not read and pass anyway, only to find out that they have given up even more of the people’s right to have separation of powers. This will be followed by the inevitable chorus from Congress of “Gee I didn’t know that was in the proposal”.

Why is it so important to control the census? The Census controls the allocation of money and allocation of each State’s representation in Congress, along with the representation that comes with redistricting. In the last census radical Black and Latino groups complained that the Republican in control of the Commerce Department Sen. Judd Greg was incapable of conducting a fair and just Census, thus they said that Black and Latino communities will suffer because they won’t receive a fair share of the money distributed by the Federal Government.

Most people with common sense would say that is ridicules, and that they would rather trust a Republican from N.H. to conduct a fair Census than a White House write an unconstitutional spread the wealth agenda. So, why the big stink about the counting of people it can’t be that hard, how can anyone change the Census? Well it all goes back to control:

The Congress, by law directed that:

“The Secretary [of Commerce] shall perform the functions and duties imposed upon him by this title, may issue such rules and regulations as he deems necessary to carry out such functions and duties, and may delegate the performance of such functions and duties and the authority to issue such rules and regulations to such officers and employees of the Department of Commerce as he may designate.”

As it states above it is the Secretary of Commerce that makes the rules as to how the Census is conducted.  Thus by gaining control of the Commerce Dept. one gains control of the way the Census is conducted, which in turn gives one control of the money and that is what the President and the Democrats want to do.

They already are buying votes with unconstitutional public sector unions and wealth redistribution programs, and if they can control the census, they can steal more of our money and give it away.  In most cases, to the undeserving people who for 50 years have been given an unconstitutional advantage over hard working families and have been either too stupid or too lazy to take advantage of what they have been given.

By gaining control of the census they get to define what poverty is.  Fifty years ago there was still real poverty in this country. Every time the poverty rate goes down they change the meaning of poverty. It is to the point where today most people considered to be impoverished have a car, refrigerator, air conditioner, cell phone, computer and various video games for their children, and enough to eat.

Giving the White House control over setting the rules will be a disaster for America in the hands of anti American globalist politicians. They will change the rules to try and reflect their view of America which most people know is perverted and distorted. We should be taking away the power the politicians have, not increasing it.