{"id":842,"date":"2002-07-26T19:12:22","date_gmt":"2002-07-27T02:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/07\/smart-and-liberal\/"},"modified":"2002-07-26T19:12:22","modified_gmt":"2002-07-27T02:12:22","slug":"smart-and-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/26\/smart-and-liberal\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart and liberal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis is why I read <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/july0204.html#072602127am\">Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maybe federal employees shouldn&#8217;t get the double protection of unions and civil service status. It&#8217;s not an unreasonable argument. If that&#8217;s what the president believes, he should send up a separate bill abolishing the civil service system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although my preference would be to abolish collective bargaining for government workers at all levels, because their civil service protection is enough, or should be in a country run by elected officials.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why I read Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: Maybe federal employees shouldn&#8217;t get the double protection of unions and civil service status. It&#8217;s not an unreasonable argument. If that&#8217;s what the president believes, he should send up a separate bill abolishing the civil service system. Although my preference would be to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/26\/smart-and-liberal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smart and liberal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-dA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}