{"id":197,"date":"2006-03-12T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2006-03-12T00:49:55","modified_gmt":"2006-03-12T06:49:55","slug":"how-many-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/12\/how-many-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Laws?&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These people we call <strong>&#8220;Law-Makers&#8221;<\/strong>, i.e., <em>Senators<\/em> and <em>Representatives<\/em>, just what do they do with their time and why are they on the tax-payers payroll?&#8230;..  I mean, the <strong>United States<\/strong> has had a constitution for over 200 years now&#8230;. Have you ever thought of how many laws you could write in 200 years!?&#8230;.  I&#8217;m surprised we don&#8217;t have a law specifying how many flies per cubic foot of air space you can have on your property at any one time (maybe that&#8217;s in some <em>Environmental Protection<\/em> law)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I think they should be required to stop making new laws and go back and review all the laws that have already been written&#8230;.  I bet they&#8217;d find a bunch of duplicates &#8211; you think?&#8230;.  They may be worded a little different with <em>&#8220;ye&#8217;s&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;thou&#8217;s&#8221;<\/em> in them, but I bet the intent and the bottom line are the same&#8230;..  Just how many new and different ways are there to be a <strong>criminal<\/strong> anyway?&#8230;.  <\/p>\n<p>Take the <strong>music business<\/strong>, we pound around on the same basic eight notes that are used in every song ever written, and two of them are the same, just an octave apart&#8230;.  Yeah, ya got your sharps and flats, and your octaves and time signatures, but it&#8217;s still just 7 notes and one duplicate&#8230;. But, even after a lot longer than two hundred years we&#8217;ve still got classical music and now they&#8217;re using it with a rap singer!&#8230;.  Same stuff, just recycled a bit&#8230;.  Is that what they&#8217;re doing in <strong>Congress<\/strong>?&#8230;.  I don&#8217;t know and they ain&#8217;t talkin&#8217;&#8230;. I do know they spend a lot of time passing pay raise legislation &#8211; <strong>for themselves<\/strong>!&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These people we call &#8220;Law-Makers&#8221;, i.e., Senators and Representatives, just what do they do with their time and why are they on the tax-payers payroll?&#8230;.. I mean, the United States has had a constitution for over 200 years now&#8230;. Have you ever thought of how many laws you could write in 200 years!?&#8230;. I&#8217;m surprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,22,2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}