{"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,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}