{"id":315,"date":"2007-06-27T11:01:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T17:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=315"},"modified":"2007-06-27T11:01:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T17:01:26","slug":"bam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Bam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Stossel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2007\/06\/biggovernment_conservatives.html\">tears<\/a> David Brooks a new one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now David Brooks is a bright guy, so I wonder how he can blame the free market for failing in this way. He continues, &#8220;Despite all the incentives, 30 percent of kids drop out of high school and the college graduation rate has been flat for a generation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me, but why is that the market&#8217;s fault? Government dominates education in America. K-12 education is a coercive, often rigidly unionized government virtual monopoly that fights every attempt to experiment with free-market competition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Stossel tears David Brooks a new one: Now David Brooks is a bright guy, so I wonder how he can blame the free market for failing in this way. He continues, &#8220;Despite all the incentives, 30 percent of kids drop out of high school and the college graduation rate has been flat for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=315\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bam!<\/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":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-commies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BzKF-bam","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}