By Russell D. Hoffman. If you're not too busy at the turn of the decade, and you're a United States Citizen, do yourself a favor. Help take the census. There are two forms in the U.S. census.
Most people get the short form.
Everybody else gets the long form. No matter which form you get, a lot of people don't like to return the forms. This is really a shame. The United States Census is an important marker upon which the spending of billions, if not trillions of dollars each year is based. This single event is used to determine not just representation in Congress, which is its most important function, but thousands of other more mundane things.