Jun 10 2008
Democrats concede privatization works
The Washington Post has reported that in a late night, closed door meeting the Senate Democrats voted, by voice (no paper trail) to privatize the failing Senate Restaurants.
After 44 years in business, these government run dining halls only made a profit in seven of those years. The other 37 years have been subsidized, by the taxpayers. We have paid $2,000,000 this year alone, and about $18,000,000 (that’s a lot of zeros) total, for those overpaid, overfed, blowhards in Washington to get a meal. No sir, brown bags or cheap take out are only for the lower class citizenry.
Not all Democrats are happy about this. Senator Robert Menedez (D-N.J.), who spoke on behalf of the Democrats that support continued taxpayer subsidies for a failed government run business, stated “”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 must give kudos to Senator Dianne Feinsten (D-Calif.) for recognizing that privatization works, and for having the courage to privatize what has long been a monumental government run failure, while defying long held Democrat tradition of “Screw what works, keep the proven debacle as is, keep it nationalized.” I know it must have been very painful for the liberal from California.
Now, if we could only get her to push for the privatization of Social Security, leave welfare in the hands of private charities, and remove many of the governmental restrictions on the health care industry, oil industry, etc, we in this country may actually stand a great chance to cure many of our social “ills,” while building a thriving, super-power economy.
Well, yes it works well for Halliburton, Blackwater, those folks running the NAtional Parks into the ground, etc. It is just a means to transfer $ to big business from the Gov’t/taxpayers…. Hell Blackwater is paying $100k for folks providing secuirty akin to Army duty personnel making 22,5oo a year now thats PRIVATIZATION 4U…
Hey Ron. Thanks for stopping by.
Ah yes, that evil Halliburton and Blackwater. Profitable companies that the government sometimes contracts with. Tragic I tell you. Just tragic.
Halliburton, in 2007,gave $353 million to charities, and their employees volunteered more than 30,000.
Halliburton has never been contracted for services by the U.S. government, particularly none of the logistics support services frequently discussed in the media today. Also, Halliburton and its subsidiaries have no employees or work in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Private companies do not, to my knowledge, run the National Parks.
What exactly is your beef with Blackwater? Even Obama said he would not rule out using them in Iraq, and he has no plan to ban their use in a war zone.