Mentioning the expenses and hardships of travelling to a rating assignment is not much different than that of a politician declaring the sacrifices he has made in perfoming his public service duties.
Bob
Bob,
I'm pretty sure that careful examination of that analogy doesn't hold up very well.
Either that or course raters have reached a new low, when they can be compared to salaried, entrenched, big-cat politicians living off the public dole and feeding at the public trough without as much as a blink.
What's next, comparisons with Televangelists?