PHILLY DEALS: Santorum is saying good-bye to a post that paid him $168,000 in cash and stock last year for attending board and compensation committee meetings, where his duties included approving a $10 million CEO cash, stock and insurance compensation package for Universal boss Alan B. Miller. Universal relied on taxpayer-funded Medicare and Medicaid payments for 38% of its $5.6 billion in revenues last year, according to the company’s annual report. The company collected profits totalling $230 million. MORE
RELATED: The federal government exists to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Santorum says, “not to take care of people.” MORE
RICK SANTORUM: “Rather than letting the American entrepreneurial spirit ignite the free-market economic engine, Obama is again choosing to depend on government to lead us to economic prosperity. But when has government ever succeeded in doing this?” MORE
PHAWKER: Hmmm, let’s see. Depending on the government has lead to economic prosperity for people earning $168,000 to sit on the board of directors of a company that earns close to half of its $5.6 billion in revenues from government spending. It also brings economic prosperity to said company’s CEO who is paid — with the approval of Rick Santorum — $10 million annually to, best we can tell, make sure the big government money taps stay open and flowing into Universal’s coffers. But pay no attention to all that, we have bigger fish to fry — like the gay problem.