{"id":19057,"date":"2022-05-07T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=19057"},"modified":"2022-05-07T10:50:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T14:50:50","slug":"people-who-get-paid-to-not-do-their-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/people-who-get-paid-to-not-do-their-job\/","title":{"rendered":"People who get paid to not do their job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Name a profession where the people who refuse to do their job still get paid. I can only think of one &#8212; US congresspeople. Republicans have for years, ever since Newt Gingrich gave them the idea, refused to work with the president if he was a member of the other party. But the definition of their job is to work with the president to get things done. If they&#8217;re not going to do their job, they should be fired &#8212; just like you or I would be if we refused to do our job.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on how Newt Gingrich ruined Congress, here&#8217;s Alex Seitz-Wald in <strong>The Nation<\/strong> from 2012:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/archive\/how-newt-gingrich-crippled-congress\/\">How Newt Gingrich Crippled Congress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name a profession where the people who refuse to do their job still get paid. I can only think of one &#8212; US congresspeople. Republicans have for years, ever since Newt Gingrich gave them the idea, refused to work with the president if he was a member of the other party. But the definition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-19057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19059,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19057\/revisions\/19059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}