{"id":510,"date":"2007-10-02T21:01:10","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T01:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/10\/02\/air-fed\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T21:01:10","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T01:01:10","slug":"air-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/10\/02\/air-fed\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Fed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Wednesday, the GAO is slated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/02\/washington\/02cnd-air.html?hp\">release a report on improper Federal employee air travel<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I suspect it&#8217;ll be held up and waved around as an example of those lazy and greedy government workers scamming the system again.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Which makes me hope that the report does tell us this &#8211; how many of these improperly authorized business\/first class trips were taken by political appointees (as compared to civil service\/SES types)?<\/p>\n<p>I think answering that would help us get a clearer picture on exactly who&#8217;s responsible for all that waste, fraud, and abuse Republicans are always going on about . . .<\/p>\n<p>(Personally, I think the rules are a bit ridiculous &#8211; no business class unless it&#8217;s a 14 hour nonstop flight, and you head straight to a meeting when you land?\u00c2\u00a0 No, thanks.\u00c2\u00a0 But the solution is to adjust the rules, not break them.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Wednesday, the GAO is slated to release a report on improper Federal employee air travel.\u00c2\u00a0 I suspect it&#8217;ll be held up and waved around as an example of those lazy and greedy government workers scamming the system again.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Which makes me hope that the report does tell us this &#8211; how many of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This Wednesday, the GAO is slated to release a report on improper Federal employee air travel.\u00c2 I suspect it&#039;ll be held up and waved around as an example of those lazy and greedy government workers scamming the system again.\u00c2 \u00c2 Which makes me hope that the report does tell us this - how many of these\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MB\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"policy,travel\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/10\/02\/air-fed\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.1\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Blacknell.net | Politics, open government, and safe streets.  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