{"id":7749,"date":"2008-01-21T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T08:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2008\/01\/20\/professional-enrichment-tour\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T08:02:07","slug":"professional-enrichment-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/professional-enrichment-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"professional enrichment tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Consolas\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fourseasons.com\/images\/generated\/property\/maui\/landing_pages\/basics_welcome.jpg?resize=417%2C507\" height=\"507\" style=\"width: 127px; height: 238px\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p>I learned a new term at one of our subcommittee hearings on spending caps &#8211; professional enrichment. As you know, the spending caps may apply to local government as well as state government. This possibility has brought municipality representatives ( or munis pronounced m-yew-nees) out of the woodwork. We hear the usual whining how this cap would jeopardize public safety, law enforcement, blah blah blah. I just had to ask a muni this question: &#8220;we hear a lot about exorbitant traveling by government officials, doesn&#8217;t spending caps put these trips in jeopardy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was informed that &#8220;professional enrichment&#8221; is an important part of public service and these expenses account for only a fraction of government spending.<\/p>\n<p>Spin it how you may, but I don&#8217;t understand why the taxpayer should fork out their hard earned money for digs the average constituent could never afford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned a new term at one of our subcommittee hearings on spending caps &#8211; professional enrichment. As you know, the spending caps may apply to local government as well as state government. This possibility has brought municipality representatives ( or munis pronounced m-yew-nees) out of the woodwork. We hear the usual whining how this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-20Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}