Uc Pensions
Stolen from the headlines! Yes, I am most unhappy with the corruption and greed of the UC Regents! How dare they threaten to sue for higher pensions! How dare they… in this economy (or any economy!)… having upped student fees and tuitions 32% in the last year! And on top of cuts!
I could not let this slide, folks. It is robbery!
Reminds me of the banks over here in sunny England. They dump us into the worse recession since. . . erm. . . and what happens? Cameron pretty much says ‘Good work, lads!’ and drives dump-trucks full of cash to their mansions.
Lately there have been accounts of new apple and android smartphone apps by Starbucks.
You pick your caffine delivery solution, they scan your phone. Badda Bing! You have less money and they have more. Simple, easy and mindless as can be.
Maybe your beloved UC Slug campus can set up a similar style of app, linked, say, to your folks newly approved reverse mortgage account. You walk in. You pick classes you like. You pick out the books you need. They scan your phone image. All is done. You get classes. The regents get well-deserved (?) bonuses. What could be faster and easier. Just don’t let anyone borrow your phone around the administration and bookstore buildings. Oh and pray for a fast housing market turnaround before your folk’s home’s line of credit goes…poof.
I like the point you made in the last panel, about working two jobs to go to school. With fewer and fewer parent’s able to send their kids to school, more of them are doing it themselves. These are the people those fat cats are suing for more money in the end. Some college student working the night shift, trying to cram their homework into a thirty minute break, then going right to class in the morning. These people are criminal.
Small Dave… I am picturing a Robin Hood sort of fella hijacking a dump truck. I would love to be part of the “merry men”…
Stick… that may not be too far off. If Scarbucks is doing it… so follows California… and then the world. If you are a small business person, you can now take someone’s credit card over your smart phone or ipad. Technology is really something, innit? I remember when we had to find a payphone to call people… and that’s ALL it did… call someone.
Ruby… Art imitating life, I’m afraid. I paid my own way thru college… and on the 10-year college plan (partly because I lacked direction at first)… but I worked whilst schooling… art texts aren’t cheap!) But I feel for students today… they are getting much less for their tuition… and this both saddens me and infuriates me.
Rah! Rant on girl.
-Rob
“Innit”? Brig’s going all British… Mind you, at least you used it in a grammatically correct fashion; the incorrect usage is far more common, e.g. “I was doing 70mph, innit?” (The Welsh apparently do that, too, though they use “isn’t it?”)
Just to be clear – they’re not suing for increased pensions but for the pensions they’re “owed.” They’re given huge salaries and the pension rate applies the same to all salaries, high or low. So if they worked at UC for X years they’ll get Y percent of their pay as pension, whether that’s based off of $100K or $400K. It wouldn’t even have come to light if there hadn’t been a federal higher limit that’s less than their salaries.
And the Cal State system administrators get MORE than UC admins and there are more of them. But that’s not getting any press because they (intelligently) are lying low and letting UC take the heat.
And, weirdly enough, I posted a political toon as well today. Great minds and all that!
Almost makes me happy that I’m a struggling unemployed artist instead of a struggling unemployed college student…well, again.
Crow: Right you are… But they are still suing to GET higher pensions… so the headline (reworded from an actual headline) is correct. They’ve been granted the hike, but the *&&#$@@s are looking to squeeze the money out now …from a cash-strapped system where the students get the short end of the stick. The UC Regents seems to be heartless creatures…. that would sacrifice the quality of education for a MORE cushy retirement. Cal State Admins… no better. (try to fit all that in 3 panels… sheesh!) … ah yes, and nice toon over there on Nicky510.
Dada… here here!