{"id":209,"date":"2010-02-04T08:35:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=209"},"modified":"2010-02-04T08:35:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:35:45","slug":"census-arrogant-or-desperate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/census-arrogant-or-desperate\/","title":{"rendered":"Census: arrogant or desperate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shazam. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/02\/03\/taxpayers-fork-million-single-census-ad-super-bowl\/?test=latestnews\" target=\"_blank\">$2.5 million bucks<\/a> for a 30-second SuperBowl spot to advertise the census. $138 million (or more) for the entire Cooperate with Your Masters campaign. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/slideshow\/politics\/2010\/02\/03\/languages-census-poster\" target=\"_blank\">In 28 languages, yet.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are these folks Soviet-style arrogant, spending money on their Big-Bro agenda as if the poor taxpayers actually had any? Or are they flat-out desperate because more and more people are realizing that census resistance is a safe, no-nonsense, and ever-increasing way for people to send a go-to-hell message to Washington? Or both?<\/p>\n<p>A couple of months ago, on a visit to the Big City, my friend and I had to scoot out of what was supposed to be a fun-filled public event because we were just too, too, too creeped out, being surrounded by masses of red-shirted census-flappers. Somehow, though, the red shirts seem completely appropriate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shazam. $2.5 million bucks for a 30-second SuperBowl spot to advertise the census. $138 million (or more) for the entire Cooperate with Your Masters campaign. In 28 languages, yet. Are these folks Soviet-style arrogant, spending money on their Big-Bro agenda as if the poor taxpayers actually had any? Or are they flat-out desperate because more and more people are realizing that census resistance is a safe, no-nonsense, and ever-increasing way for people to send a go-to-hell message to Washington? Or both? A couple of months ago, on a visit to the Big City, my friend and I had to scoot&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/census-arrogant-or-desperate\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Census: arrogant or desperate?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}