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Your June 6 editorial on census sampling was another example of bureaucratic nonsense. President Clinton is quoted in a speech in Houston that “the last census missed some 67,000 people” there. My question is, If the census bureau missed those people, who counted them for the president to mention? And if the census bureau says it missed 8.4 million people in the last census, who was in charge of counting the missing people to create such a useless statistic?
Such number nonsense only reinforces a citizen’s cynicism when government sources are quoted. In fact, if the census bureau miscounted by only 3 percent of a growing population, it is incredibly accurate and shouldn’t change to suit some politically correct goals.
