{"id":161,"date":"2007-12-22T01:20:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T09:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2007-12-22T01:20:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T09:20:44","slug":"how-many-congressmen-does-it-take-to-screw-the-guy-putting-in-a-light-bulb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/how-many-congressmen-does-it-take-to-screw-the-guy-putting-in-a-light-bulb\/","title":{"rendered":"How many congressmen does it take to screw the guy putting in a light bulb?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.letusinsureyou.com\/lightbulb%20idea.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>314.  That&#8217;s the number of congresscritters who voted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59298\">ban the incandescent light bulb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you care about reasons why Congress would do such a thing, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\/Politics\/archive\/200712\/POL20071220f.html\">read this<\/a>.  If you think Congress is a bunch of dim bulbs, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB119820567527544151.html\">read this<\/a> (gated).  If you want to see why the intended effects are likely to be outweighed by the unintended effects, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.org\/commentaries\/smithheisters_20070509.shtml\">read this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re, like me, wondering where Congress gets off even being able to ban the light bulb, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/national-archives-experience\/charters\/constitution_transcript.html\">read this<\/a>, and get back to me with an explanation that Washington or Madison might understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>314. That&#8217;s the number of congresscritters who voted to ban the incandescent light bulb. If you care about reasons why Congress would do such a thing, you can read this. If you think Congress is a bunch of dim bulbs, you can read this (gated). If you want to see why the intended effects are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectivist-instinct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}