{"id":18976,"date":"2013-09-25T16:32:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T20:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18976"},"modified":"2013-09-30T17:03:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T21:03:16","slug":"this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18976\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Why We Can&#8217;t Have Nice Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lost in all of the other drama surrounding the possibility of a government shutdown beginning next week (zero hour is October 1) is this fact: the city of Washington D.C., whose budget is appropriated by Congress (though most of the revenue is raised within the city), will also have to scale back its operations should a continuing resolution not get approved. Or at least everyone except lunatic D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray thinks so. <a href=\"http:\/\/wamu.org\/news\/13\/09\/25\/gray_asks_to_keep_all_dc_employees_on_the_job_during_shutdown\" target=\"_blank\">From WAMU in D.C.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray today declared that the city&#8217;s 32,000 employees were all &#8220;essential&#8221; and should be allowed to remain on the job during a possible federal government shutdown that could start next week.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Office of Management and Budget director Sylvia Burwell, Gray wrote: &#8220;I have determined that all operations of the District of Columbia are &#8216;excepted&#8217; activities essential to the protection of public safety, health, and property and therefore will continue to be performed during a lapse in appropriations.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>32,000 employees and not a single one can be spared? Let&#8217;s be honest: the city&#8217;s going to be a simmering urban hellhole either way. Why not at least save some coin for a few days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost in all of the other drama surrounding the possibility of a government shutdown beginning next week (zero hour is October 1) is this fact: the city of Washington D.C., whose budget is appropriated by Congress (though most of the revenue is raised within the city), will also have to scale back its operations should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4284,2440,4283,2426],"class_list":["post-18976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-continuing-resolution","tag-government-shutdown","tag-vincent-gray","tag-washington-d-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19013,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18976\/revisions\/19013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}