Seems like the correct decision, at least to us

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has taken the quite reasonable position that since

1. The upcoming Census is in the process of being completely politicized by the Messiah, who is moving responsibility for the upcoming project from career (and presumably non-partisan) Commerce Department employees to directly under the partisan supervision of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel;

2. "Advocacy" groups such as ACORN, which is under federal investigation for voter registration fraud in upwards of 15 states, will apparently be allowed to participate in the door-to-door canvassing operation, despite the organization's long track record of blatant data falsification;

3. The Census has metastasized far beyond its original intent, which was to count the number of citizens of America and where they live for Congressional apportionment purposes. It now intrusively inquires into all facets of a given person's life, for example where one works and how they get there, how much money one makes at their job, one's health and disability status, how much one's mortgage is and what language a family chooses to converse with in their house;

4. The Constitution only explicitly states that "[An] Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.", and a reasonable person could conclude that the amount of privacy-stripping questions now being asked by census-takers certainly is far more than merely an "enumeration";

the representative is only going to respond with the number of people in her household address, as she correctly notes is the only answer that is Constitutionally mandated.

Of course as one might expect, the government apparatchiks down at the Census Bureau aren't very happy with this announcement:

"Shelly Lowe, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Census Bureau, said Mrs. Bachmann is "misreading" the law... She sent a portion of the U.S. legal code that says anyone over 18 years of age who refuses to answer "any of the questions" on the census can be fined up to $5,000."

A five-figure fine for declining to report how many bathrooms are in one's abode? Seems a little excessive and unnecessarily punitive, don't you think?

Well, the bureaucrats had better get their ticket-pads warmed up, because that response is exactly what we've been advocating for quite some time, and Ms. Bachmann's joining our way of thinking only steels our resolve to follow through with our decision, which is to not give out the intimate details of our lives just because some government snoop wants them.