{"id":22408,"date":"2011-03-11T10:12:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T15:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/22408\/thoughts-2\/"},"modified":"2011-03-11T10:12:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T15:12:51","slug":"thoughts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/22408\/thoughts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brain always gets me in trouble. I always have these stray thoughts that keep crashing in. Things like:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Has anyone ever considered that we Traded a 400 Billion dollar Fishing industry made up of American Small Businessmen for BP (A Brit company) 100 Billion in profits?<\/p>\n<p>Or,<\/p>\n<p>Why doesn&#8217;t Texas&#8217; debt matter?<\/p>\n<p>I mean Texas is further in debt then Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky,&#8230;Combined. But no one seems to care.<\/p>\n<p>Or,<\/p>\n<p>Is NCLB the most diabolically evil piece of Legislation ever passed. The Teachers hate it. Schools scores are getting worse. The worse performers get less and less funding and score lower&#8230;.AND, NCLB is 35% of the Education budget for the State of Wisconsin, without NCLB, Wisconsin wouldn&#8217;t have a Budget &#8216;Crisis'(See Texas). And Wisconsin and Indiana are going to partially pay for NCLB by lowering Teachers&#8217; salaries and benefits&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Was NCLB INTENDED to bring down the Public School system in the US or is it just Unintended consequences of a Bush\/McGraw golf outing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brain always gets me in trouble. I always have these stray thoughts that keep crashing in. Things like: &#8216;Has anyone ever considered that we Traded a 400 Billion dollar Fishing industry made up of American Small Businessmen for BP (A Brit company) 100 Billion in profits? Or, Why doesn&#8217;t Texas&#8217; debt matter? I mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}