{"id":183999,"date":"2012-09-12T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/12\/rahm-switch-parties\/"},"modified":"2012-09-12T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T00:52:00","slug":"rahm-switch-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/12\/rahm-switch-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahm, Switch Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Rahm&#8217;s vision for education in Chicago is to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.firedoglake.com\/2012\/09\/11\/as-paul-ryan-lines-up-behind-rahm-the-scheme-to-privatize-chicago-schools-becomes-clear\/\">break the unions and turn the schools over to his rich campaign contributors<\/a>, and it&#8217;s gotten Randroid Paul Ryan positively giddy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan has twisted the knife just a bit more in an attempt to draw out President Obama on the Chicago Teachers Union strike, now entering its second day. He told a fundraiser in Portland, OR yesterday that he endorsed the position in the strike of the former chief of staff of Barack Obama:\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">I think the most important by-product of this strike is that it will show how deeply embedded the Students First\/Waiting for Superman frame has become, in the traditional media, in the cultural firmament among elites, and in the Democratic Party. I\u2019ve heard people on social media wondering what this strike is about. Narrowly speaking, Chicago teachers aren\u2019t supposed to be able to strike over anything but pay and benefits. And certainly, they\u2019re trying to retain their health care. But it\u2019s not that hard to see what this is about. Significant sections of the Chicago Public Schools system are starved for funds. They are putting 40-50 students in classrooms without air conditioning. The kids don\u2019t have books or materials weeks into the term. And ultimately, the goal is to make those schools so poorly maintained, staffed and administered that they \u201cfail,\u201d allowing Rahm Emanuel and his hedge fund buddies to essentially privatize them: \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, all this guy has is his ability to suck up to rich people.<\/p>\n<p>I have no clue as to why he is a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>As to what Obama will do, I expect crickets as a <b>best<\/b> outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Rahm&#8217;s vision for education in Chicago is to break the unions and turn the schools over to his rich campaign contributors, and it&#8217;s gotten Randroid Paul Ryan positively giddy: Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan has twisted the knife just a bit more in an attempt to draw out President Obama on the Chicago Teachers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,1023,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-labor","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}