They Will Nationalize Health Care, but They Can’t Even Run a Restaurant
By Duane Lester • Jun 9th, 2008 • 463 ViewsConsidering that the Democrats, and a few Republicans, want to nationalize the health care system in America, it is distressing to think what they will do with it considering this:
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.
The embarrassment of the Senate food service struggling like some neighborhood pizza joint has quietly sparked change previously unthinkable for Democrats. Last week, in a late-night voice vote, the Senate agreed to privatize the operation of its food service, a decision that would, for the first time, put it under the control of a contractor and all but guarantee lower wages and benefits for the outfit’s new hires.
They can’t figure out how to keep their own businesses in the black, but they are going to run something as complex as health care better than the private market? Are you kidding me?
