{"id":52571,"date":"2015-04-10T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52571"},"modified":"2015-04-09T21:56:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T02:56:21","slug":"warehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52571","title":{"rendered":"Warehouse: Schools And Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

I forget who I heard referring to the inner city as “government’s warehouse for poor people”. There are those who get hurt and bothered when I use that term, as if I’m characterizing the people.<\/p>\n

I’m not. \u00a0I’m characterizing the government.<\/p>\n

And for those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of dealing with government in a failed one-party state, this article explains why I use the simile<\/a>, and don’t apologize for it, ever.<\/p>\n

Read the story. \u00a0And then remember that while the tax money that was supposed to help alleviate these kids problems has been slashed, the Saint Paul School District’s administration has been getting huge pay raises<\/a>. \u00a0 Especially\u00a0<\/strong>African-American parents: \u00a0this is your DFL in action, with your kids. \u00a0This is the wages of your allegiance the DFL. Let’s talk.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to pullquote the article – because I’d like you all to read it. \u00a0It may be the most depressing thing I’ve read lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I forget who I heard referring to the inner city as “government’s warehouse for poor people”. There are those who get hurt and bothered when I use that term, as if I’m characterizing the people. I’m not. \u00a0I’m characterizing the government. And for those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of dealing with government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-school-choice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52571","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=52571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52600,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52571\/revisions\/52600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}