{"id":1768,"date":"2016-02-11T18:07:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/professor-smythe-says-congress-is-the-problem\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:29:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:29:03","slug":"professor-smythe-says-congress-is-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/professor-smythe-says-congress-is-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Smythe says Congress is the problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9075\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tom-smythe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9075\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9075 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tom-smythe.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Tom Smythe\" width=\"171\" height=\"248\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 171px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 171\/248;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Tom Smythe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s autumn, and Congress has once again been again displaying its mastery of dysfunction. The legislators spent weeks sparring over who was to blame for the government shutdown and about the debt ceiling so the federal government can pay its bills on time. But all that spectacular dysfunction masks the real issues, says Furman business professor Tom Smythe, and Congress\u2019 inability to address those issues is the problem. Smythe expressed his views in a Nov. 10 op-ed for <em>The Greenville News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20131110\/OPINION\/311100017\/Tom-Smythe-Continued-uncertainty-hurts-our-economy\"><strong>Read the op-ed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s autumn, and Congress has once again been again displaying its mastery of dysfunction. The legislators spent weeks sparring over who was to blame for the government shutdown and about the debt ceiling so the federal government can pay its bills on time. But all that spectacular dysfunction masks the real issues, says Furman business professor Tom Smythe, and Congress\u2019 inability to address those issues is the problem. Smythe expressed his views in a Nov. 10 op-ed for\u00a0<em>The Greenville News<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}