Comments on: Senate Privatizes Restaurants

By: Because I'm Right

Because I'm Right — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:59:03 +0000

Shock in Washington: Private Business More Effici...

The picture above is a shot of the Senate Dining Room, part of the government run Senate Restaurants, and it looks pleasant enough. Sadly that is the only nice thing that can be said about it. In a story embarrassing to Democrats because it shows how.....

By: Eneils Bailey

Eneils Bailey — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:43:17 +0000

I would love to see a lunch menu with prices for this place. Although I do get the feeling that paying your bill may be an old "House Post Office" type of arrangement.

Do the Senatorial staffs get the privilege of eating there?

By: Eneils Bailey

Eneils Bailey — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:10:13 +0000

And we need these folks running our health care system?
Policing the behavior of oil company executives?
And are hell-bent on taking more of our money to piss away?

They know as much about running an organization as I do about nuclear fusion. Although I am sure I could crack the code for generating power before they could learn how to run a snack bar.

Good God, let us send them all back home and send them working at a McDonald's if they can not run a highly subsidized feeding trough for the pigs in Washington.

By: brainy435

brainy435 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:03:35 +0000

Government - We can't feed ourselves but we still know better than you!

By: charles austin

charles austin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:34:24 +0000

So, the Senate commissary is expected to lose $20,000 per Senator this year. Perhaps Senator Clinton now has some spare time to look into this.

By: Fence

Fence — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:53:12 +0000

Stormy Dragon, I guess you unfamiliar with the number of employees you have at this location. Frankly, perhaps we'd be better off if they would turn the entire complex into a series of profitable restaurants.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:16:59 +0000

Am I the only one wondering why the House and Senate need two independent, completely redundant, eating places to begin with?

Because some wanted French Fries, and others wanted Freedom Fries, but you couldn't have one place that served both?

By: Stormy Dragon

Stormy Dragon — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:12:41 +0000

Am I the only one wondering why the House and Senate need two independent, completely redundant, eating places to begin with?

By: c. wagener

c. wagener — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:57:05 +0000

As long as we don't try this unproven "private" stuff in education or health care.

I'd like to write more but I need to stand in line for toilet paper at the government store.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:28:37 +0000

I think that Senators (and Congressman) should by law be required to live in specific dormitories and take their meals in the Senate cafeteria, the contract for which should be let to IHOP.