what goods or services does the Union President provide a customer? Why is it he must steal the union dues of the "workers" so he can get his paycheck?
Let's see now, those union members get salaries and protections most of us don't enjoy. So there's that.
An executive for a business, is paid for his experience to run a profitable company, like a profession athlete is paid for his expertise to win a game.
Well, that would be great if they actually did that, but these guys get paid even if they run their companies into the ground. which a lot of them do. And you get big glossy magazines like Forbes and Fortune stroking their egos.
Hey Joe when I worked at McD's back in 1976 the minimum wage was $2.10 an hour and you could buy a burger, fry and small drink for only 95 cents. When minimum wage was $7.50 an hour, that burger, fry and small drink was just over $3.00 So minimum wage when up 3.5 times, but the food only went up 3 times. But the reason why College Tuition went through the roof, is that liberals are in charge of the colleges and demand more money because the government took over the college tuition plan. Liberals scratching the backs of other liberals, and you are just an ignorant **** for not noticing that. Keep it up Joe and you will get the "stupidest liberal in the universe" award.
I think you are a little bit confused here guy. the reason why food costs have gone down relative to inflation is because the government subsidizes its production. Agriculture is probably the least capitalistic sector of our economy, it's why we have a 100 Billion dollar Farm Bill every year.
The old joke about the USDA bureaucrat being in mourning because his farmer died isn't that far from the truth.
MEANWHILE, the Colleges are displaying a lot of the same bad habits as corporations.
What's Driving College Costs Higher?
"[Colleges and universities] compete with one another not to make money, but for status and prestige, so they buy things that increase their status and prestige in relation to their competitors," Carey tells
Fresh Air's Dave Davies. "They're big on construction. ... They're always building things."
College campuses may be expanding but that doesn't necessarily mean their teaching staffs are growing. Carey points out that the number of full-time professors has shrunk across the country — and that less than 40 percent of students are now taught by tenure or tenure-track professors.
Opinion | The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much
By contrast, a major factor driving increasing costs is the constant expansion of university administration. According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions.
Even more strikingly, an analysis by a professor at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, found that, while the total number of full-time faculty members in the C.S.U. system grew from 11,614 to 12,019 between 1975 and 2008, the total number of administrators grew from 3,800 to 12,183 — a 221 percent increase.