Unjustifiable Excesses?

Last week, in an Albany Times Union "letter to the editor," one Laird Scranton opined that the $1.6M salary drawn by RPI President Shirley Jackson was an "excess in largess" which is "unjustifiable in terms of the sacrifices that are demanded of others." Scranton's words reminded me of Joe Bruno, the once powerful New York State Senate Majority Leader, now on trial for making introductions. Bruno moonlighted (as many legislators do), in his case as a high-paid "introducer" for a brokerage firm. He made money. Lots of money. Some people have a problem with other people making money.