Everybody read the good news today? The California State University system has finally seen the wisdom in capping the salaries of each university's president. At $300,000 per year, or 10% more than their predecessor. I almost forgot about the exception of at least the San Diego State president, and possibly others I'm not aware of since there are 23 schools; who will be getting a paltry $400,000 as his package is pre-existing. Really? When we can't afford to hire teachers who actually do the day to day heavy lifting in education, we can afford to overpay a group of self entitled corpulent tax trough feeders, who see nothing wrong in having our children yoked to a harness of lifelong debt to support their bloated compensation packages.
That's American Reality today, those empowered to allocate public resources do their very best to see to it that every one of their whims can be met. On top of the exorbitant salaries they've given themselves; we would be remiss to leave out the following partial "Benefits Package" our university presidents and the regents require to maintain their very modest standards of living.
Auto allowance, donations allowance(WTF? seriously?), DRY CLEANING allowance, housing allowance, travel per diems, health insurance... In the world in which I reside, people who make that kind of base salary usually don't get allowances for every other living expense. Well except on Wall Street. In fact I've not seen an allowance since I was 15. Like most of you, I too have had to actually work for my living.
So please have a heart and keep those donations flowing to these poor overworked, under-appreciated and certainly under compensated public servants; who so selflessly give of themselves for the betterment of mankind.
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