{"id":1452,"date":"2004-03-12T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T18:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/03\/12\/\/"},"modified":"2004-03-12T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2004-03-12T18:09:10","slug":"1452","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/1452\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chapel-perilous.fetishize-me.com\/caiterwauling\/2004_03_07_archive.php#107901290532177183\" rel=\"external\"><strong>How Government Works<\/strong><\/a> ~ off Caiterwauling<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, &#8220;someone may steal from it at night.&#8221; So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Then Congress said, &#8220;How does the watchman do his job without instruction?&#8221; So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies. Then Congress said, &#8220;How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?&#8221; So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports. Then Congress said, &#8220;How are these people going to get paid?&#8221; So they created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer, then hired two people. Then Congress said, &#8220;Who will be accountable for all of these people?&#8221; So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary. Then Congress said, &#8220;We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $18,000 over budget, we must cutback overall cost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, they laid off the night watchman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Government Works ~ off Caiterwauling Once upon a time, the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, &#8220;someone may steal from it at night.&#8221; So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job. Then Congress said, &#8220;How does the watchman do his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}