If your blood isn't already boiling (what with the government's latest move to pick your pockets), check out this interesting example cited by Thomas Lifson over at the American Thinker's blog of the "outrageous looting of the public treasury" being performed by education bureaucrats. A highly paid executive, Linda Morris Williams, (photo at right) with a rather squishy-soft community relations job (shades of Michelle Obama's $300k+ job Linda Morris Williamsat the University of Chicago - a position so unnecessary that it has not been filled by anyone else since she left it) at the University of California grabbed a six figure "buyout" for leaving her job in the University's headquarters, and immediately taking another similar job with exactly the same pay at the University's Berkeley campus.
Worse, the University now admits that it misled the public in its explanations of the way the job switch was handled. Previously it maintained that this all happened innocently, and that Ms. Williams didn't know about the second job when she left the first one. Now it develops that she did indeed know that she had the new job waiting for her when she left the old one, thereby arranging for herself a six figure bonus. At taxpayer expense.
Education is one of the largest industries in America, and there are plenty of people in it helping themselves to high salaries while performing undemanding jobs, the kind of things called "associate chancellor - government, community and campus liaison."
Incidentally, Ms. Williams also received a $44,000 relocation allowance and a low-interest $832,500 home loan earlier.
I knew I should have stayed in the education racket.
