{"id":2452751,"date":"2019-12-30T22:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T05:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/confused-by-torrenomics\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:17:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T15:17:59","slug":"confused-by-torrenomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/confused-by-torrenomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Confused by Torrenomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Mayor Torre, \u201cI\u2019m an advocate for values-based budgeting; priority-based budgeting, as it\u2019s called.\u201d (<a id=\"N0x14a14c0N0x14a37e0:N0x14a14c0N0x14464c8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/aspens-mayor-focuses-on-2020-vision-for-city\/\">\u201cAspen\u2019s mayor focuses on 2020 vision for city,\u201d<\/a> Dec. 30, aspentimes.com).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Really? What is he talking about? What a mouthful of contradictory mishmash, defying definition and coming from the person at the top who is responsible for a budget of over $100 million. Perhaps Mayor Torre is now just applying his gut-feel (his values, his priorities) to economics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Here is a simple suggestion, forget the words and phrases. Focus your visionary process on the simple goal of reversing the bloat, actually reducing the spending levels of the city. Aspen\u2019s budget is many multiples of other comparable towns, i.e., Vail or Steamboat. Cut costs and subsidies, then council and the citizens will truly be on the same page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Neil B. Siegel<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/confused-by-torrenomics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Torre, \u201cI\u2019m an advocate for values-based budgeting; priority-based budgeting, as it\u2019s called.\u201d (\u201cAspen\u2019s mayor focuses on 2020 vision for city,\u201d Dec. 30, aspentimes.com). Really? What is he talking about? What a mouthful of contradictory mishmash, defying definition and coming from the person at the top who is responsible for a budget of over $100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 23:30:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452758,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452751\/revisions\/2452758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}