{"id":521349,"date":"2010-04-08T23:01:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T03:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/?p=12595"},"modified":"2010-04-08T23:01:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T03:01:35","slug":"pro-business-obama-expensive-refreshments-immigration-and-the%c2%a0census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521349","title":{"rendered":"Pro-business Obama, Expensive Refreshments, Immigration And The\u00a0Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>*Obama said what about being pro-business? <\/strong>At first I thought  it was an April Fool\u2019s joke, but this happened in February. In an interview  with <em>Business Week <\/em>magazine<em>,<\/em> President Obama said that he and his  top officials are all \u201cfierce advocates for a thriving, dynamic free market.\u201d In  fact, the president claimed, his administration has promoted a \u201cfundamentally  business-friendly agenda.\u201d Sure, if raising taxes, increasing rules and regulations,  taking over of medical care and increasing dependence on subsidies are good for  business, I guess you can call him pro-business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*How much would you  pay for a cookie and a Coke? <\/strong><em>USA Today<\/em> reports that  during a three-day conference for its procurement officials (these are the  folks whose job it is to buy things at the lowest possible price); NASA paid  $62,611 for the 317 attendees to snack on \u201clight refreshments.\u201d That works out  to $66 a day for coffee, soft drinks, bagels and cookies. This is just one more  example of how careless bureaucrats can be when it comes to spending <em>your<\/em> money instead of their own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*At least they  don\u2019t all want to come here.<\/strong> The Pew Hispanic  Center conducted a survey of how many  citizens of Mexico would  prefer to live in the United    States. Guess what? The report says 46  percent of the population would move north if they could. Gee, that\u2019s only  another 49 million immigrants. I expected the number to be higher. Are we sure  they asked the question in Spanish?<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Can we outsource  the census? <\/strong>The  U.S. Census Bureau reports that it will spend $14 billion to count all of the  people in the U.S. this year. With a total population of around 309 million,  that works out to $45 a head. India,  meanwhile, is also conducting a census of its population. With a total  population of around 1.2 billion people, they expect it to cost $1.2 billion to  count them all, or about $1 a head. Next time can we outsource our count to  them?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Chip Wood<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Obama said what about being pro-business? At first I thought it was an April Fool\u2019s joke, but this happened in February. In an interview with Business Week magazine, President Obama said that he and his top officials are all \u201cfierce advocates for a thriving, dynamic free market.\u201d In fact, the president claimed, his administration has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}