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Consensus

(Bush mulls his decision to exclude statistical adjustments to Census data)

"Jeeze what a storm is brewing up
About this Census count.
They're so obsessed with numbers,
What's all the fuss about?

They say some folks are hurting
Because we left them out
But we don't need them anyway,
Of that I have no doubt.

They don't have too much money
And come from overseas,
That's why we shouldn't include them
'Cos America's just like me.

Like votes and campaign finance,
The sums just mount and mount,
But I prefer a simple life
'Cos I never learned to count!"

March 2001




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