Comments on: Click Your Remote Control http://alabama.raycompolitics.com/706 Politics and political news from around Alabama. Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:06:02 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Well, actually... http://alabama.raycompolitics.com/706/comment-page-1#comment-328 Well, actually... Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:19:23 +0000 http://alabama.raycompolitics.com/?p=706#comment-328 Scott, you are right there seems to be no good solution, but there is a fair solution out there that the legislature wouldn't take up. Kay Ivey submitted a solution in December that the universities could have partnered with and not had tuition caps. They over-played their hand and got drummed. Primarily, the arrogance from Alabama and Auburn wouldn't allow it to happen. So guess what? They ended up getting the shaft by their good buddy Paul Hubbert. Had Robert Witt, Malcolm Potera and Jay Gouge embraced being part of a creative solution instead of digging in their collective heels, they would not be in the situation they are in. Serves them right. Their schools have profited the most off of the PACT program. When circumstances called for collaboration and shared sacrifice, with the potential for a win-win scenario, the university poobahs stiffened up and stood in the schoolhouse door against PACT families. So screw their arrogance. They could have gotten at least half a loaf, but they wanted the whole bakery. So Hubbert was only too happy to hand them crumbs. Admit it boys, Hubbert ran circles around you. When they have to lay off two layers of mid-level administrators to help make up for cuts, maybe they'll not be so pompous and obstinate the next time the state asks them to help out the citizens they are designed to serve. Scott, you are right there seems to be no good solution, but there is a fair solution out there that the legislature wouldn’t take up. Kay Ivey submitted a solution in December that the universities could have partnered with and not had tuition caps. They over-played their hand and got drummed. Primarily, the arrogance from Alabama and Auburn wouldn’t allow it to happen.

So guess what? They ended up getting the shaft by their good buddy Paul Hubbert. Had Robert Witt, Malcolm Potera and Jay Gouge embraced being part of a creative solution instead of digging in their collective heels, they would not be in the situation they are in.

Serves them right. Their schools have profited the most off of the PACT program. When circumstances called for collaboration and shared sacrifice, with the potential for a win-win scenario, the university poobahs stiffened up and stood in the schoolhouse door against PACT families.

So screw their arrogance. They could have gotten at least half a loaf, but they wanted the whole bakery. So Hubbert was only too happy to hand them crumbs. Admit it boys, Hubbert ran circles around you.

When they have to lay off two layers of mid-level administrators to help make up for cuts, maybe they’ll not be so pompous and obstinate the next time the state asks them to help out the citizens they are designed to serve.

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