Who said this?
Candidly, I don’t think the taxpayers should be subsidizing something that doesn’t need to be. There are parts of government that can be run like a business and should be run like businesses.
I’ll go ahead and answer, because you would have never guessed Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif.
So what happened? In a nutshell:
- The Senate’s “network of restaurants” have consistently lost money ? over $18 million since 1993.
- This year all those restaurants, coffee shops and cafeterias will need a $25,000 subsidy to make payroll.
- The House restaurants have been privatized since the 1980s.
- House restaurants are making “a substantial profit” and have returned $1.2 million in commissions to the House since 2003.
- Senate opposition to privatization has turned on Democrat populist issues of wage and healthcare concerns and workers being left in the cold; i.e., receiving competitive wages and benefits as opposed to wages and benefits subsidized by their fellow Americains already “out in the cold.”
- Senate opposition to privatization melted when faced with this choice: “Feinstein made another presentation May 7, warning senators that if they did not agree to turn over the operation to a private contractor, prices would be increased 25 percent across the board.”
