For fiscal year July 1, 2012 to June 20, 2012, the Republican General Assembly and Republican Governor

have granted UPENN $28,137,000, equivalent to about $540,000 per week.

REVERSE ROBIN HOOD: Pennsylvanias Forgotten Taxpayer Funding the Best of the Best, the Richest of the Richest, the Most Powerful in Pennsylvania --- UPENN and UPENNs Amy Gutmann, the millionairess university president. There may be some taxpayers who think that billionaire UPENN and millionaire Amy Gutmann dont need their money. Is this the best use of taxpayers money? Is this what taxpayers expect?

The Pennsylvania Republican controlled General Assembly and Pennsylvania General Assembly appropriated UPENN $28,137,000 (averaged at over million a week) for fiscal year 2012-2013 and had given the same amount in fiscal year 2011-2012. READ MORE FISCAL NOTE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: This legislation appropriates a total of $28,137,000 for the University of Pennsylvania. It specifies $27,889,000 for veterinary activities and $248,000 for the Center for Infectious Diseases. These are the same amounts that were appropriated for fiscal year 2011-2012. Appropriation Act 14A of 2012 July 2 SB 1126 University of Pennsylvania UPENN has an annual budget of over $6 billion dollars, is tax exempt corporation and has an endowment of $6.58 billion as of June 30, 2011, the 11th largest in the nation. READ MORE Daily Pennsylvanian 29 February 2012 Penn endowment continues to grow Penns endowment was among the fastest growing in fiscal year 2011

The Daily Pennsylvanian reports: "According to the Chronicle of Higher Educations annual report on executive compensation for 2009 *** Gutmanns salary of $1,321,040 made her the 20th-highest-paid college president in the nation" READ MORE Daily Pennsylvanian 5

December 2011 Sizing up presidential pay A new report ranked Penn President Amy Gutmanns salary 20th overall for university presidents nationwide. UPENN's President Amy Gutmanns total compensation for 2008 was $1,357,004 READ MORE Daily Pennsylvanian 10 June 2010. Gutmann sees 4% Pay Raise

UPENN President Amy Gutmann, PhD.

* There seems little doubt that UPENNs President Amy Gutmann, PhD. is highly competent, highly talented and gifted, and highly accomplished. READ MORE Penn to extend president Gutmann through 2019 May 10, 2012 Susan Snyder, Inquirer Staff Writer and President Gutmanns fund raising skills are stellar READ MORE For Penn, Gutmann's tenure is proving golden September 16, 2012 Susan Snyder Inquirer Staff Writer Many can admire the skillful facility and the admirable achievements of intellectually gifted Dr. Gutmann and the refined ability to operate on the highest plateau in the rarefied academic world of the most highly accomplished , the most talented, most intellectual, most learned, most educated, most wealthy, most successful, most powerful the American Meritocratic Elite - seemingly insulated from the fears and worries of less talented, less skilled, less learned, less talented, less gifted of 99.9% of the taxpayers who support her world. How much did the 99.9% of taxpayers benefit, if at all? Many might think not at all because they will never have access to the world of the intellectual elite, the power elite, the moneyed elite because they dont deserve to. Oddly, the elite academic world is supported by the ordinary world taxpayers. *Portrait by Everett Raymond Kinstler