{"id":37901,"date":"2013-08-20T05:20:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37901"},"modified":"2013-08-19T10:32:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T15:32:14","slug":"37901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37901","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Do&#8221;, An Entitlement, A Long-Failed Entitlement, &#8220;Re&#8221;, A Former Transportation Secretary&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are 300 million people in the country and those Nasty Evil Republicans who implemented the sequester plan devised by John Kerry\u2019s Super-friends Super-committee cruelly will afflict <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/breakingnews\/ci_23891842\/no-head-start-57-000-children-this-fall\">57,000 children who can\u2019t go to Head Start this Fall. <\/a><br \/>\nThe article lists the complaints. No free daycare. No free dental screening. No free lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Wait a minute, I thought Head Start was intended to give poor kids a leg up so they could compete academically. If it\u2019s just another welfare program that affects a vanishingly small percentage of Americans, and those only because of hard policy choices made by a bi-partisan committee hand-picked by the President . . . what\u2019s the problem?<\/p>\n<p>But wait, it\u2019s not only kids who are affected. 57,000 kids account for 18,000 government-funded jobs to be cut or reduced, a ratio of 1-3. That&#8217;s W-A-Y better than the ratio of Maria to the Van Trapp kids, and they managed to learn somehow anyway, during the war even.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But Julie Andrews paid no union dues, so nobody cares&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: There are 300 million people in the country and those Nasty Evil Republicans who implemented the sequester plan devised by John Kerry\u2019s Super-friends Super-committee cruelly will afflict 57,000 children who can\u2019t go to Head Start this Fall. The article lists the complaints. No free daycare. No free dental screening. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37905,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37901\/revisions\/37905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}