Harvard College has an endowment of $53 billion.
This looks as if a major reality that’s oddly lacking from virtually each information story in regards to the apocalyptic tragedies unfolding each day within the 02138 zip code.
Day after day, the apparatchiks in regime-controlled media make it seem to be the deprivation round Brattle Road is just barely much less dire than within the Gaza Strip. You’d suppose President Trump was bombing Widener Library the way in which Putin is doing to Kyiv.
All this horror is unfolding, and in some way Harvard is helpless to do something about it, regardless of that $53 billion endowment. You already know, fiduciary obligations, non-profit rules, illiquid investments blah blah blah…
The most recent Harvard sob story appeared this week within the Boston Globe, below this headline:
“Harvard halts plans to provide out 100 air conditioners in Boston.”
They’re not speaking right here about an costly venture like putting in central air in 100 giant house buildings. They have been going to put in 100 window-model air conditioners, the sort you possibly can order on Amazon for as little as $121.
However let’s say the eggheads sprung for deluxe fashions — how a lot might 100 of them have probably price? Twenty-five thousand bucks, tops. Okay, throw within the “overhead” that Harvard routinely fees the feds for all its woke packages.
Spherical the price off to 100 grand — $1,000 per AC unit that any regular MAGA American would spend $121 on.
It nonetheless doesn’t make a dent in… $53 billion.
However that’s not how the Globe sees it.
“As a part of its far-reaching assault on the college,” some sob sister typed, “the Trump administration rescinded the cash for the venture.”
Should you went out for a beer with Josh Kraft, you’d count on him to purchase at the very least a spherical, if not choose up the entire tab. And but Josh “solely” made $6.3 million final 12 months.
I really feel the identical approach about Harvard and the air conditioners as I’d really feel about Josh Kraft and the bar tab. In the event that they’re so rattling anxious in regards to the sweltering residents, allow them to put their $53 billion the place their mouth is.
However this was simply the newest Democrat agitprop that’s alleged to make you begin weeping the buckets over Harvard.
Bear in mind the monkeys in Pittsburgh that Harvard was going to exterminate as a result of Trump had taken away $75,000? Subsequent got here the canine that have been going to be euthanized.
The Democrat nomenklatura found out that cute laboratory animals have been so much sympathetic than any of the DEI plagiarists at Harvard making 1,000,000 bucks a 12 months as skilled victims. (Suppose Claudine Homosexual.)
Thus, The New York Occasions went all in on the Trump-murders-poor-animals angle.
In April, they discovered an “skilled” at Johns Hopkins: “There are going to be a whole lot of animals which might be going to finish up being sacrificed — killed.”
No kidding! That’s what they’re there for, for higher or for worse. What do they suppose that their hero, Dr. Anthony Fauci, was doing with all these beagle puppies in Tunisia?
PETA, of all individuals, felt compelled to name out Harvard’s nonsense, particularly in regards to the monkeys.
“These monkeys and different animals have been by no means going to depart the laboratories alive,” PETA mentioned in a press release. “Experimenters are simply upset they will’t torture them first earlier than killing them.”
The torrent of woe-is-me tales out of Harvard by no means ends. How in regards to the historical toenails with fungus that have been going to be misplaced as a result of the researchers might now not afford to refrigerate them?
Hey, Harvard, take that one up along with your governor, Maura Healey. Her ruinous insurance policies are the reason for the 12 p.c improve in electrical charges, not MAGA voters.
One other allegedly crushing blow to Harvard: Below the brand new tax regulation, they’re going to must pay a tax of as a lot as 8% on earnings from that One Massive Stunning Endowment of $53 billion.
An 8% tax? Would you want to cut back the tax fee in your earnings down to eight%, as an alternative of 15 or 20 or 32 p.c (plus the state earnings tax)? To not point out, Harvard nonetheless doesn’t pay property taxes on their multi-billion-dollar portfolio of actual property in Cambridge, Boston and God is aware of the place else.
By the way, that cutback in funds for Harvard “heat-related tasks” can also be creating human distress in, of all locations, South Africa, a rustic that treats white individuals virtually as badly as Harvard does.
In accordance with the Globe, the public-health professors have been additionally planning to “paint the roofs of 32 properties in South Africa white to see if that lowers indoor temperatures.”
Spoiler alert: it does! Why do you suppose individuals with dark-colored vehicles typically paint their roofs white? Or maybe the Ph.D.’s might go to Bermuda and take notes on what coloration all the home roofs are painted down there, and why.
Higher that the Democrat media stick with sob tales about cuddly animals. And positive sufficient, Trump’s pogrom in opposition to pets has now unfold past the Folks’s Republic of Cambridge.
On Friday, a day after the Globe’s it’s-not-the-heat-it’s-the-humidity tear jerker, the Washington Put up did them one higher.
“Trump’s immigration crackdown has led to deserted pets, crowded shelters.”
You imply, the fentanyl sellers, gangbangers, pedophiles and repeat drunk drivers being rounded up and despatched to Alligator Alcatraz don’t care anymore about their pets (which they most likely stole) than they do about anything?
“I don’t know what’s going to occur with all this,” one bed-wetter informed the Put up, “however I can inform you that the animals are those paying the worth.”
You already know who else is paying the worth? Taxpayers, who’re caught with the tab for Joe Biden’s madness of waving 20 million international freeloaders into the nation, together with those who have been accused of devouring home pets in Ohio final 12 months.
Whined one other employee at a pet shelter in Florida:
“We’re taking in canine you don’t often see at shelters — Yorkies, Frenchies — as a result of these households are simply gone.”
French bulldogs? Have you learnt how a lot they price? It’s the breed du jour of the Stunning Folks — AOC has one. Woman Gaga’s canine walker was mugged in LA in the course of the dognapping of her three Frenchies.
Don’t Democrats all the time inform us that the illegals have been fleeing “financial persecution?” Now we discover out whereas they’ve been dwelling giant on welfare, they’ve additionally been shopping for designer canine most Individuals can’t afford.
I feel Harvard ought to undertake a few of these deserted French bulldogs after which put them up in residences — air-conditioned residences.
Did I point out that Harvard has a $53-billion endowment?
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