Why Not Manage Universities, Mr. President?
Over at Barack Obama’s and Bill Ayers’ alma mater, Columbia University, President Lee C. Bollinger made $1,411,894 last year. John Sexton at NYU collected $1,324,874. Northwestern’s Henry S. Bienen scraped by with $1,742,560.
And what about the Keynesian advising President Obama to deficit-spend our tax dollars to “prime the pump” during the recession? When Lawrence Summers recently left Harvard, he received a $2-million severance.
Here’s a question for Senator Chuck Schumer’s staff: Have you compared the wage of these folks to the custodians who clean their offices? The typical tenured professor spends under 10 hours per week in the classroom, and gets at least five full months of paid vacation. No one, from the little library lady to a GM fat-cat, enjoys those perks.
Talk about “Two Americas.” If you boys on Capitol Hill want to fan the flames of class warfare, this is a tinderbox.