{"id":547618,"date":"2010-04-29T23:01:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T03:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/?p=13267"},"modified":"2010-04-29T23:01:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T03:01:28","slug":"food-for-the-homeless-free-beer-a-risky-plan-and-a-telling%c2%a0sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547618","title":{"rendered":"Food For The Homeless, Free Beer, A Risky Plan And A Telling\u00a0Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>*Don\u2019t feed this to  the homeless.<\/strong> When a small church delivered a load of fried chicken that its members had  spent hours making to the Bowery Mission in New York City, the folks running  the feed-the-homeless program said \u201cthank you very much\u201d\u2014then promptly threw it  all away. Why? Because of a law the city passed back in 2008 banning everyone  with a Health Department license from having trans fats in their food. That  includes emergency food providers such as the Mission. More and more it seems the world is  going crazy\u2014and the inmates are running the show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*These guys want  their free beer.<\/strong> From Copenhagen, Denmark, comes news that workers at  the local Carlsberg brewery have walked off their jobs to protest a new company policy restricting how much free beer they get. There used to be coolers stocked with beer throughout the plant; a worker could grab a brewski  anytime he wanted. Now, free beer is available only during lunch hours in the  company cafeteria. Some 800 workers walked off their jobs in protest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Sounds a little  risky to me.<\/strong> A brokerage firm is running ads in <em>The  Wall Street Journal <\/em>with the following pitch: Borrow from us at only 1.3  percent interest and buy stocks paying 5 percent in dividends. Not only that, you can borrow $5.6 for every $1 you have in your account (assuming you have at  least $100,000 invested with them). The ads do warn that doing this \u201cis only for sophisticated investors with high risk tolerance.\u201d Thanks for the warning,  guys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*The sign of the  week. <\/strong>This  one was seen at a tax day protest in Manhattan  on April 15: There were two columns of numbers; the one on the left was headed  \u201cGovt Takes\u201d and had six different taxes listed below, totaling 69.825 percent.  The one on the right was headed \u201cU Keep\u201d and had only one number underneath:  30.175 percent. Talk about a picture worth a thousand words.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Chip Wood<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Don\u2019t feed this to the homeless. When a small church delivered a load of fried chicken that its members had spent hours making to the Bowery Mission in New York City, the folks running the feed-the-homeless program said \u201cthank you very much\u201d\u2014then promptly threw it all away. Why? Because of a law the city passed [&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-547618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547618","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=547618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}