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But Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), speaking for the group of senators who opposed privatizing the restaurants, said that "you cannot stand on the Senate floor and condemn the privatization of workers, and then turn around and privatize the workers here in the Senate and leave them out on their own."
I quite agree. But probably not the way the Senator wants me to.
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Gah, finally. As nifty as it was to have lunch in the Senate cafeteria, the food left a lot to be desired.
It’s odd for me to find myself defending my Senator, but she’s doing the smart thing and her Democrat colleagues are just pathetic:"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. Go for it, Mr. Brown. Just not with our money.
(And as an aside: their average salary, per the WaPo, is $37,000 a year. "Some of the lowest-paid workers in our country"? That’s about the average salary of the country as a whole, and well over the median.)
Even better than that was this gem:But Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), speaking for the group of senators who opposed privatizing the restaurants, said that "you cannot stand on the Senate floor and condemn the privatization of workers, and then turn around and privatize the workers here in the Senate and leave them out on their own." Y’know, he’s got a point. Feinstein must learn her lesson and start supporting privatization elsewhere. After all, government administration of businesses—the kind of businesses you can find in every town in the country—has clearly failed in one place she’s close enough to perceive with her own eyes. That perennially failing restaurant chain is concrete to her. It must take quite a bit of strain to overcome all the theoretical reasons floating in her head that government subsidy and administration should not be failing... or to resist the implications for most everything else the government runs in this country. |
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They seem to have no trouble at all patronizing all the private restaurants in DC, which charge more.
For those who wish to know a little more about our publicly subsidized DC eating establishments;
http://aolsvc.travelocity-dest.aol.com/DestGuides/1,1840,AOLSVC%7C4893%7C%7C%7C0035023873%7CF%7CN,00.html
http://thehill.com/american/senate-dining-room-where-the-elite-meet-2003-07-16.html |
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So their restaurants go the way of the Congressional Bank. Why should anybody be surprised? |
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SShiell
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I think this is the case of the office being refurnished and the bosses ending up with the windows.
From what I understand, the House has been privatized for a while and the facility turns a profit. But the real sticker is that the House food is better than Senate food, too. That cannot stand. |
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They can’t run a reasturant with a 100 patron cap. But healthcare for 300 million, they got that covered. |
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Ryan
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