Mellowicious :
As for staff and administration - I worked for awhile in a community college, and served on two hiring committees for the MIS department. We had people who were coming straight out of college with no work experience at all, who laughed at the starting salary we offered. (Because of the way the institution was structured [locally controlled, by the way, in a small tax district] we were unable to negotiate salary. At all. Our starting salary was $25,000 under what those applicants could make in business.) Can you expect excellence in staff when that's your pay scale?
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Teachers,nurses,doctors,fire-fighters,security guards.
"CEO'S",bankers,insurance salesmen,politicians.
"Where" do "We" "put our money"?