And the problem is........?

[Shuxclams]

JANUARY 13, 21:56 EST



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Utah Disputing Census Results




SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? Utah and the U.S. Census Bureau have agreed to a quick trial on the state's challenge of the national count.

The agreement, struck Friday, means Utah's case claiming that its population was undercounted will skip two preliminary hearings and go to a three-judge federal panel in mid-March.

The state claims it was denied a fourth seat in the U.S. House of Representatives because the bureau did not count more than 10,000 Mormon missionaries serving overseas.

Instead, the seat went to North Carolina based on its count of military and federal employees working abroad. North Carolina's edged Utah for the last slot by 856 residents.

Under census rules, Mormon missionaries are counted the same as college students. If they are serving in the United States, they are counted in the state they are serving. If they are abroad, they are not counted. >>



They arent serving the country, so they don't get counted, rules are rules. What a waste of taxpayer money.




SHUX

 

[DAM]

hey you bastard im a mormon and i live in utah what the hell is your beef??? we want to waste the tax payer's money, its not like they have anything else to do with it.









dam(your thread seemed kinda lonely)

 

[dabuddha]

amen to that shux
it is a shame

 

[Corn]

It's amazing that &quot;rules are rules&quot; when a decision affects an area with a large republican base, but when a decision affects a democrat (can you say &quot;Florida?&quot, all of a sudden &quot;rules are not rules&quot;.

Bah.

 

[Shuxclams]

[/b]WHAT!?!

<< Under census rules, Mormon missionaries are counted the same as college students. If they are serving in the United States, they are counted in the state they are serving. If they are abroad, they are not counted. >>

What don't you understand?





SHUX

 

[Russ]

HMM...I must now go and re-evaluate. I find myself agreeing with the UberTroll.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Mday]

hee, hee

 

[Thom]

Gee Doesn't time fly. It must be at least what, ten minutes since anyone found an under/mis represented group in american society.

 

[Double Trouble]

It's unfortunate in this case (since these people are overseas doing a lot of good work), but them's the rules, and I don't see any compelling reason to change them for the sake of one group of people.