{"id":16311,"date":"2026-09-17T16:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=16311"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:07:53","slug":"congress-is-so-dysfunctional-and-irresponsible-its-only-done-its-job-four-times-since-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=16311","title":{"rendered":"Congress is so dysfunctional and irresponsible it\u2019s only done its job four times since World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2295080827-e1789657688320.jpg?w=2048\" \/><br \/>Congress is so dysfunctional and irresponsible it\u2019s only done its job four times since World War II | Fortune<\/p>\n<p>Steve H. Hanke is a Senior Contributing Columnist at Fortune, a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University, and a member of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation. He is also the co-editor, with Barry W. Poulson and John Merrifield, of Public Debt Sustainability: International Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2022). David M. Walker is the former Comptroller General of the United States and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation. He is also the co-author, with Joe Penland, Sr., of the forthcoming book, Saving Social Security and America\u2019s Future: Common Sense Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>#Congress #dysfunctional #irresponsible #job #times #World #War<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is so dysfunctional and irresponsible it\u2019s only done its job four times since World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[245],"tags":[3099,21312,4673,315,828,684,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}