It does affect representation and funding allocation. Anything other than numerical data might be controversial.
are they really going door to door? wtf is that...just seems creepy. "how many people live here?" "its all for your own good"
seems like they're hiring a bunch of workers to do this. one of the temps at work was interested in it i guess...said he was at the grocery and people asked him if he wanted to count people.
LOOK! THIS TOWN OF 5,000 ONLY HAS ONE STOP LIGHT. Can't a fucking city planner just take a look and go...oh shit, we need a fucking stoplight here! Kind of like that town of 500 in Alaska that is having another airport runway built through the stimulus plan. Our nation is being run by nerds.