{"id":560,"date":"2009-02-22T18:13:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T18:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2009-02-22T18:13:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T18:13:22","slug":"back_to_the_census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Back To The Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Barone has posted an article at <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/MichaelBarone\/2009\/02\/21\/count_on_the_constitution?page=full&amp;comments=true\">Townhall.com<\/a>&nbsp;regarding the 2010 Census.&nbsp; Michael Barone points out that the President takes an oath to defend the Constitution and according to the Constitution, the Census has to be taken every ten years (Congress passed a law putting it under the Department of Commerce.).<\/p>\n<p>The Census determines how many representatives each state sends to Congress and how many electoral votes every state has in the Presidential election.&nbsp; We depend on an accurate census to allow our government to function fairly.&nbsp; The Census also determines the amount of federal aid going to each state.<\/p>\n<p>We do have a Census Bureau.&nbsp; The ideal plan here is to let the people at the Census Bureau handle the Census.&nbsp; They have the experience and the knowledge&#8211;they know what they are doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Barone has posted an article at Townhall.com&nbsp;regarding the 2010 Census.&nbsp; Michael Barone points out that the President takes an oath to defend the Constitution and according to the Constitution, the Census has to be taken every ten years (Congress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=560\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}