Saturday, March 08, 2008
We always knew the Bushoviks couldn't count right
And now we find out they have developed a way to pass on their numerical disability to their successors.
The hand-held mobile computers that are supposed to replace the pens and paper long used by census takers aren't working properly, and delays could send the cost from $600 million to as much as $2 billion.As they have done little planning for a pencil and paper alternative, the question may well be 'Whose landslide?'
The Census Bureau has done little, if any, planning for what to do if the handheld mobile computers can't be made to work. As a result, an important census dress rehearsal this spring has been delayed by a month as the agency looks for backup plans.
"I cannot over-emphasize the seriousness of this problem," Census Bureau Director Steve Murdock told a Senate hearing this week.
That same day, the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, designated the 2010 census a "high-risk area."
The GAO's designation, which provides guidance for Congress about where the next bureaucratic crisis might lie, was the equivalent of a "Beware of Landslides" sign at the entrance to a treacherous mountain road.
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