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Universities are large and require administrators to function, of course. The problem is there seems to be no end to the expansion. This point was recently illustrated by Mark Perry, an economics professor at the University of Michigan-Flint. Perry, who also is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, used the University of Michigan as an example to highlight the rise of “diversicrats” (diversity bureaucrats) on today’s campuses. The numbers are astonishing. 1. The University of Michigan currently employs a diversity staff of nearly 100 (93) full-time diversity administrators, officers, directors, vice-provosts, deans, consultants, specialists, investigators, managers, executive assistants, administrative assistants, analysts, and coordinators. 2. More than one-quarter (26) of these “diversicrats” earn annual salaries of more than $100,000, and the total payroll for this small army is $8.4 million. When you add to cash salaries an estimated 32.45% for UM’s very generous fringe benefit package for the average employee in this group (retirement, health care, dental insurance, life insurance, long-term disability, paid leave, paid vacation, social security, unemployment insurance, Medicare, etc.) the total employee compensation for this group tops $11 million per year. And of course that doesn’t count the cost of office space, telephones, computers and printers, printing, postage, programs, training, or travel expenses. https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/diversity-staff-university-michigan-nearly-100-full-time-employees

I am not on trial here. You seem to have typed a declaratory sentence yet ended with a question mark. I find this outrageous! Of course. And you know what else? Cecil is DEAD, and for all the know it all fact checkers among us, by that I mean he is no longer living. I suppose for all the Clinton apologist, that’s just another coincidence??

There is no challenge in our society today that blaming the system and a good old tax can’t fix. In spite of the hardship so many faced while walking the mean streets of high school, with unsavory characters in trench coats offer applications to colleges in far away lands, many chose the road less traveled. They applied reason to higher education, remembered the basic math skills they were taught in elementary school and ‘settled’ for a trade, a job upon graduation, community college or a local school. Still others committed to more expensive education and saw it through, honored their debt and managed to stay out of the soup kitchens. In the world you described, they system includes educators on every level, including and up to higher education. Why are they immune to being part of the solution? I’d think many schools have endowments, why not seize some of the money there? They directly benefitted from the culture. Why not a payroll surcharge on educators, the ones that participated in the scheme? What about a pension tax, seeing as they benefited directly from the scheme? I just checked the Penn State operating budget...$6.8 billion in 2019. Heck the Penn State Alumni association pimps everything from license plates to credit cards. Why tax Wall Street? I enjoyed reading your posts.

That would not align with my truth.

It sounds like they went rogue to me. The admin indicates a unilateral decision was made without consulting “members of the university administration”. If these individuals are professors, I would submit they are indeed rogue scholars.

I’m with you. No heads were actually thrown at that point. You pay the man until such time.

I don’t know why, but when I read your last sentence, I think maybe you’re a small town veterinarian from 1938 Appalachia, or you’re a gentleman caller about to court the local school marm. Much classier than “I had some $@#$ to do”!

All the voices pretty much agree. It takes a village.

Yeah I figured, but I do like to hear myself talk, even in the written form.

I'd retype everything I just typed but it would take too long. Plus, it would be redundant.

You would be hard-pressed to find a major politician in the past 100 years who did not personally or indirectly benefit from policies implemented or decisions made while running for or holding public office. From benefit programs, to sweetheart deals, to legislation, to pay-for play, to who works where after their time in office, to former presidents/senators/congress members working where and for whom they work post govt—government is THE largest and most corrupt (by your definition) ‘corporation’ in history. On the other hand, a citizen supporting the dismantling of an administration through phony charges and the weaponization of intelligence is no friend to patriotism or sanity. Your passion is acknowledged, your naïveté stunning.

First rule of a good defense attorney: know who is in the room. I just made that up, but it never ceases to amaze me how emotionally stupid highly educated and accomplished people can be.

And the song, Winds of Change: I follow the Moskva down to Graphic Park Listening to the winds of change Inspirational song about the graphic arts industry as i recall.

I was going to incorporate you into the reply, but in every version It ended up in some variation of Shawshank and no fancy pants jailhouse lawyer is climbing through 300 yards of the foulest smelling....well, whatever. You ended up on the cutting room floor. Seriously though, that place looks like everything’s nasty prison should look like.

@Gary Busey time to man up. I said members of the Obama admin did, you said “No they di’int” and Snafu shared the link for your edification. Step into the light, let the truth wash over you and acknowledge your error. yes Or no, was I right, and you wrong?

A little Upstate NY trivia. Attica Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison in Attica, NY. Constructed in the 1930s, lead architects Hugh G. Rection and Haywood Jablome designed the structure to be functional for prisoner maintenance and foreboding to both inmates and those that might one day join it’s infamous ranks as honored guests. From the Wiki, current prison demographics are: 22% Violent repeat offenders; 46% Violent first time offenders; 20% Non-violent serial criminal offenders; 12% Felony criminal offense involving narcotics and drug trafficking. I found this part very, very interesting: ”CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT FROM GEN-POP: INDIVIDUALS WHO CAUSED DEEP ALARM IN OTHERS I think Tibsy, even if your tribunals can somehow get the President on these “deep alarm” charges—-and yes, Deep Alarm can lead to hives, sleepless nights, exacerbation of pre-existing prostate enlargement in both men and liberal women—-I don’t think it goes to trial. In these cases, there is generally a plea deal to the lesser charge of Saying Mean Things or Sending Straight to Voice Mail. Apologies to everyone else, but a lib kneeling before John Frigging Bolton is priceless.

Hey Slims, you took the time to reply to me. Here's another example of what I was referencing earlier https://thehill.com/homenews/media/469428-washington-post-hits-back-at-trumps-repugnant-tweet WaPo acts very unprofessionally, but putting that aside for a moment, this part caught my attention: The Post's story was later confirmed by The New York Times and ABC News. In this case, what exactly has been "confirmed"? As far as I can tell, neither the NYT nor ABC news has Trump or Barr in record, nor audio or video of same, or even a statement of fact from a senior admin official. How would they even know who the WaPos source is -- would WaPo give up the name to the competition? Or, do you think these others "news" organizations are just confirming that WaPo ran a story to begin with? Seems like Fake News to me.

Speculation is rampant you may not be a Rhino at all. Bob says "Checkmate".

Yes, it is Silly Wabbit.

Who Bob, who are these dedicated career people who have seen their careers trashed, their lives ruined, these tellers of truth that can't be making all this stuff up? I haven't seen the fallout. Is there a running list of federal employees who were not given their annual automatic indexed increase, their co-pays driven from $5 to $7, or being forced to work until age 58 v 56? You'd think this would be big news outside of Ann Arbor. To answer your question, of course its possible. However, it's also a demonstrable fact that certain noble servants in the Obama admin tried to paint an picture of treason and subversion against the president and failed spectacularly. Why do you support that?

The issue is that hatred makes a reasonable person irrational, and in this case causes them to accept as fact something that by definition is speculation. Every prominent hate group follows the same pattern. Find a dummy willing to listen to what they have say, outrage of said dummy ensues, and it's on to the next story.

It's interesting you posted this. My wife had NBC on today and the reported story was headlined "BARR REFUSES TRUMP REQUEST" or something similar. The reporter spoke factually that the WaPo reported that "sources" reported that Trump requested a press conference. It took the entirety of the 3 or 4 minute segment for the NBC guy to state that the WH called it bs, and that they could not independently verify the story. The reporter also said the WH "tried to downplay the notion that there was any tension between the Trump and Barr.". Isn't a more balanced version of the story that there's a rumor that all this happened? Why include a large banner headline that reports as fact something that can never be verified? In fact, isn't the real story that NBC is reporting an unsubstiated rumor about their political enemy, using the unsubstantiated rumor of another media source, declaring it as fact in a headline, but weasle-wording it at the end for plausible deniability? This type of story about a school budget battle wouldn't pass muster in a local Pennysaver story in Des Moines, would it? You talk about rabbit holes while you're basically posting a National Enquirer story?

It's roomier than you would think. Amazon delivers, too. No Starbucks, which is odd.

Holy cow! I really had no idea you had these types of investigative chops. You’ve laid out a pretty compelling case. You read, heard or received a telegram about someone purporting to be a Trump supporter continuing to be a Trump supporter even after someone else asked them a pointed and leading question dealing with their interpretation of a—and this is priceless—transcript of several hours of one-sided closed door testimony from a career bureaucrat? It’s like I know someone who dated someone who rode on a bus with someone who’s uncle was the Uber driver to a guy who’s the cousin of someone in the room. I have the chills.

I’m with you on this one. We only achieve true equality when everyone is treated equally.