{"id":932,"date":"2008-12-26T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2008\/12\/time-to-reboot-america.html"},"modified":"2008-12-26T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T13:43:00","slug":"time-to-reboot-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/12\/time-to-reboot-america.html","title":{"rendered":"Time to Reboot America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times columnist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/24\/opinion\/24friedman.html\">Thomas Friedman makes a compelling argument<\/a> for why we need to reinvest in America, especially with regard to our science and engineering talent. <br \/>Key quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>My fellow Americans, we can\u2019t continue in this mode of \u201cDumb as we wanna be.\u201d We\u2019ve indulged ourselves for too long with tax cuts that we can\u2019t afford, bailouts of auto companies that have become giant wealth-destruction machines, energy prices that do not encourage investment in 21st-century renewable power systems or efficient cars, public schools with no national standards to prevent illiterates from graduating and immigration policies that have our colleges educating the world\u2019s best scientists and engineers and then, when these foreigners graduate, instead of stapling green cards to their diplomas, we order them to go home and start companies to compete against ours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah&#8230; what he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman makes a compelling argument for why we need to reinvest in America, especially with regard<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/12\/time-to-reboot-america.html\" title=\"Read Time to Reboot America\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/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-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}