Can’t run restaurants
If the government can’t even run a couple of restaurants why would we want them to take over the healthcare industry and then who knows what else?
Year after year, decade upon decade, the U.S. Senate’s network of restaurants has lost staggering amounts of money — more than $18 million since 1993, according to one report, and an estimated $2 million this year alone, according to another.
The financial condition of the world’s most exclusive dining hall and its affiliated Capitol Hill restaurants, cafeterias and coffee shops has become so dire that, without a $250,000 subsidy from taxpayers, the Senate won’t make payroll next month. ~washingtonpost.com
So the (Democrat run) Senate has done the only logical thing to do… to get out of the restaurant business. And yet the democrat controlled Senate will no doubt want to get into a myriad of other businesses as soon as possible. Why? Why is socialism still credible to the left?
This Washington Post article basically explains why lefty Democrats pervasive policy on economic issues is almost always wrong.
In a letter to colleagues, Feinstein said that the Government Accountability Office found that “financially breaking even has not been the objective of the current management due to an expectation that the restaurants will operate at a deficit annually.”
The left fails to even consider the possibility that their vision of socialism might be wrong despite being bludgeoned in the face repeatedly with overwhelming evidence of that fact. Maxine Waters recently threatened to “nationalize the oil industry” because prices were “too high”. The stupidity of Maxine Waters and others like her cannot be underestimated. Both Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton have said that they favor a, “windfall profits tax,” on oil companies, “to bring down prices.” How f*ing stupid to they think we are? Or do they truly believe that raising the costs to oil producers would somehow create lower prices?
(I just may title the remainder of my posts during the election season, “How f*ing stupid to they think we are?!”) But I digress.
The story goes on to explain how Senators cross over to the House restaurant to eat and that House Representatives never cross over to the Senate operation because the food and service are so dismal. Imagine, the government run restaurant is shunned like the plague and everyone wants to go to the private run restaurant on the house side. Could anyone have predicted such an outcome? Why it goes against all liberal common sense.
Shouldn’t the ‘communally run’ restaurant be better in every way than the greedy for profit enterprise? Don’t these Senators know that they are being oppressed and taken advantage of when they eat in the private run restaurant?
“I know what happens with privatization. Workers lose jobs, and the next generation of workers make less in wages. These are some of the lowest-paid workers in our country, and I want to help them,” Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), a staunch labor union ally, said recently. The wages of the approximately 100 Senate food service workers average $37,000 annually.
