{"id":288,"date":"2007-06-15T09:01:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T15:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=288"},"modified":"2007-06-15T09:01:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T15:01:35","slug":"friday-linkorama-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Friday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotte.com\/local\/story\/155381.html\">shortage<\/a> of illegal immigrants:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Americans today don&#8217;t want to sweat and get their hands dirty,&#8221; said Doug Torn, who owns a wholesale nursery in Guilford County. &#8220;We have a choice. Do we want to import our food or do we want to import our labor?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, we don&#8217;t need <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/13\/us\/13pants.html?_r=1&#038;em&#038;ex=1181880000&#038;en=98e651ffd9c4030a&#038;ei=5087%0A&#038;oref=slogin\">tort reform<\/a>.  It should be perfectly fine to sue someone for $54 million because he lost your pants.  I know this story has gotten a lot of ink.  But I hadn&#8217;t heard about it and every sentence of the article enrages me.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats have a plan to raise taxes past <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2007\/06\/14\/democrats-push-french-tax-plan\/\">100%<\/a>.  Al Gore had a similar plan.  But it&#8217;s overtaxing the &#8220;rich&#8221;, so that&#8217;s OK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina has a shortage of illegal immigrants: &#8220;Americans today don&#8217;t want to sweat and get their hands dirty,&#8221; said Doug Torn, who owns a wholesale nursery in Guilford County. &#8220;We have a choice. Do we want to import our food or do we want to import our labor?&#8221; No, we don&#8217;t need tort reform. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=288\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Linkorama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-law-and-order","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-4E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}