Mary Williams-Kotnik: Prime example of greed

Regarding the Nov. 3 news article “12 chancellors get 8%-19% pay raises”: The announcement by the UNC Board of Governors to give university chancellors huge raises, one as high as 19.43 percent, is truly stunning in its audacity.

If North Carolina taxpayers, according to our state legislature, cannot afford to give public school teachers meaningful pay raises, then the decision by the BOG to raise chancellors’ already-generous salaries is more than outrageous.

The prevalence of greed that exists in America today is breathtaking, and it’s not just corporate greed. It has permeated the highest levels of North Carolina public service employees.

Please know I am neither Democrat nor Republican.

Seriously, America’s enemies need only to sit back and watch. Greed and the ever-expanding economic divide in America threaten U.S. peace as surely as do ISIS and al-Qaida.

This story was originally published November 5, 2015 at 3:56 PM with the headline "Mary Williams-Kotnik: Prime example of greed."