Furloughs at UIUC--How To Save $260K

[Don Dresden]

Waiting for Cash in Illinois

...Faced with its own backlog of $436 million, the University of Illinois System announced furlough and hiring freeze plans Tuesday that would trim $82 million from its operating budget.

...The University of Illinois’s furloughs of 11,000 employees are expected to generate $17 million, which would address only about 4 percent of the $436 million backlog.

Hey interim president Ikenberry, here's how you can save over a quarter of a million dollars in one easy swipe--sack the embarrassing Loots-Gollum Family!  

You rid the university of its inept "conflict of interest officer" who can't stop conflicts of interest and who sells mutant pork for food ($160,000 savings), and you unload her domestic partner who obviously is bored with his job and has better things to do ($100,000 savings).

Plus you restore credibility to the university and spare it countless hours of ridicule, mockery, scorn, derision, laughter, contempt, disparagement, taunting, and humiliation.  The taxpayers of Illinois will thank you.

[DR ANATIDAE]

Hey interim president Ikenberry, here's how you can save over a quarter of a million dollars in one easy swipe--sack the embarrassing Loots-Gollum Family!  
You rid the university of its inept "conflict of interest officer" who can't stop conflicts of interest and who sells mutant pork for food ($160,000 savings), and you unload her domestic partner who obviously is bored with his job and has better things to do ($100,000 savings). Plus you restore credibility to the university and spare it countless hours of ridicule, mockery, scorn, derision, laughter, contempt, disparagement, taunting, and humiliation.  The taxpayers of Illinois will thank you.

G-G reminds me very much of a chap we have in New Zealand – John Minto (a.k.a. Rent-a-Mob Minto). Minto has made a living out of being a professional activist. He has featured in every public demonstration (and is the instigator of most of them) for the last 30-years and was particularly active during the Anti-Apartheid period in NZ. He must be very proud of what he achieved – life expectancy for a male in South Africa is now 50 and 53 for a female. But quite obviously he has achieved something, because prior to his involvement the life expectancy was around 63 for a male & 65 for a female! Whereas G-G has never achieved anything – apart from collecting a large salary for playing on his computer.
Today Minto was in Auckland demonstrating at the international tennis tournament - accompanied by a very small mob - against the Israeli lady playing in the tournament. Five were arrested - and hopefully the key to their jail cell was thrown away!

[Armando Ramos]

He must be very proud of what he achieved – life expectancy for a male in South Africa is now 50 and 53 for a female. But quite obviously he has achieved something, because prior to his involvement the life expectancy was around 63 for a male & 65 for a female!

Couldn't help but think of that old Monty Python movie when I read that.  What did the white people in Africa ever do for us?