They can't even get the census right

Of all the federal government's functions, the decennial census is one of the most straightforward. Since the beginning of the republic, all it requires is dispatching enough people in the field every 10 years to get an accurate count of how many live in the United States. Period.

But the census is also one of government's most important functions, since it determines who gets what slice of the federal dollar pie. For cities and states, money for most essential