Groves, 60, currently a professor at the University of Michigan, will face a hailstorm of dissent from conservative groups and politicians. Americans are being told -- with the help of members of the news media -- that millions and millions of people populating this nation's urban areas are not being counted.
They claim that close to 15 percent of the US population are at risk of being not being counted due to language problems and a deepening economic crisis due to the financial meltdown that has displaced homeowners.
For example, according to Rep. McHenry, up to $250 million of the $1 billion in stimulus money for outreach, particularly for traditionally hard-to-count minorities, will be distributed according to Census figures.
One issue that strikes at the heart of the Obama Census plan is the counting of illegal immigrants as if there were citizens. The liberal-left politicians want illegal aliens counted as American citizens in order to gather more votes, plain and simple. Recently in Georgia the high court struck down a law requiring voters to show proof of citizenship.
Several conservative organizations believe the new Census figures will be used to provide more benefits to illegal immigrants. Abuse is already rampant in the collection of fraudulent income tax refunds from the IRS -- especially by illegal immigrants.
For example, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest cash transfer program in the United States. More than 23 million families received more than $44 billion in the EITC refundable tax credit in 2006. Between 27% and 32% of EITC dollars are collected fraudulently, the new report says.
In addition, much of the so-called "tax relief" goes to people who never paid a cent in taxes, and may have already defrauded the government of huge sums each year. For instance, the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) is available to illegal immigrants even if they do not have a valid Social Security number. The EITC is the most accessible of the major entitlement programs and used by more people than food stamps or Medicare.
The problem is most Americans don't know this manipulation of the Census will happen and, if they do know, they don't seem to care.