Regent Pigs At Dinner Trough

When it comes to the idea of frugality and watching out for the taxpayer, politicians and bureaucrats are without a clue

Another example coming to light in the UC System latest spending news

First we had the multi-million slush fund that Napolitano from legislators chose to conceal

While pleading for more state funding  and raising tuition with unabashed zeal

Brown to his credit took an unusual step

By a governor of a state awash in unfunded pension liability debt

Holding back 50 million dollars until an audit is complete

Now he must be embarrassed by lavish spending for Regents for dinner seats

The Board of Regents have been wined and dined like kings

While parents and students have struggled what collection notice the mail will bring

Tuition increasing like a proverbial rocket

While the Regents for meals never reached into their own pockets

Fortunately a member of the press was not asleep at the switch

Broke the story forcing Napolitano to the policy of lavish dinners switch

Same old story the Beltway culture of elitist thought and troughs for the bureaucrats and political gluttons so porcine

Sadly as accountability fades and greed and disconnect from us mere mortals grow is not to just the Swamp confined

Thriving and growing in California’s one party almost dictatorial state

Also in a University system in which the suppression of free speech is an all too common trait

© May 30, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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