Much has been said in the media lately about the growing inequality between the richest citizens of the US and virtually everyone else. I was particularly dismayed at the revelation in a major paper that otherwise fit academic leaders at a major research university had obtained medical waivers to allow them to fly first class on fund raising and other business trips. Travel policy called for them to travel in coach. A few days later, there was a motivated defense in the same paper of spending money to make money and the need to retain critical talent in higher education.
I don't care about first class versus the discount airlines' cattle call. I don't care about courting donors.
Faking a medical excuse makes me want to puke. Cowardly sleaze balls behave like that.
Yes, Jerry Brown is an adult. I agree with his opinion that the austerity most Americans observe ought to mean something.
Is this the recipe for a stable society? It feels more like a recipe for social unrest.
Addison Steele
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