Posted on 06/08/2008 7:39:45 PM PDT by writer33
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.
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A LOSS of $12,000,000 dollars in ONE YEAR!
Thats a LOSS of $120,000 per Senator, simply Obscene!
How many Illegal Aliens do they have working there? If You are paying the help $20,000 per year, that 600 more employees than money to pay them at $10 per hour.
Good golly! Union Station is right across the street and it’s teeming with excellent restaurants. Those numbskulls can eat there.
I’m in. Privatize the Senate.
2997? We wished We could have kept control away from the Demorats till 2997, but guess you meant 2007.
And these are the jokers who want a central economic plan, to run every aspect of the economy, and they can't even make a restaurant break even. These are the people who are going to take care of us in our old age, and when we're sick.
Mark
bump to that sentiment! They didn’t privatize or scale back lots of things.
You can’t have senators eating with the riff-raff (read normal people). Pick some of the big lobbying companies and let them pay for the restaurant.
What the hell sort of payroll do they have to meet if they need a quarter of a million dollars to do it?!?!?!
Mark
I will bet a nickel that Dummycrap and Apubnican both demanded the best of foods and forced the prices so low that they could pay for it with the change in a front pocket.
Your tax dollars at work, rabidralph. If you want to be rich, get elected to Congress.
If you are from the future, and this is true, I will sleep better at night.
Let em eat at Mc Dodos
Somehow I can just picture US taxpayers subsidizing Ruth’s Chris’ Steakhouses to serve the ‘titled ones’
They keep saying how much money they could make on the outside, why don’t some of those that have spent a life on the ‘teat’ retire and go make the ‘big bucks’ that we make?
(Supposedly)
That's right, Robin. No price gouging! None at all!
:-)
No senators are probably up for breakfast; at lunch they are out with lobbyists eating pate de fois gras and stuff like that; then they have to head out early for happy hour with the pages and seldom come back for dinner. How’s the senate restaurant going to make a buck of those losers?
Real tomato ketchup, Eddie.
Nothing but the best, Mark. :-)
If you subsidized the company cafeteria at your business at this level, the IRS would take your number of employees, divide the subsidy by that number, and that dollar amount would be on everyone’s W-2, and you’d pay taxes on it.
Pass the plate boys. Yall ate it...yall pay for it. $2500 checks from each of you.
Our current government claims to be able to do everything for us: Educates us. Buy our prescription drugs. Make us safe. Even feed us. But they can’t even feed themselves. And we have known this for how long??
...............”The cafeteria in the basement of the Senate office building is a great place to eat lunch when touring Capitol Hill.”....................
Last year, while touring Washington DC, we went to the Capitol on a tour arranged thorough “Patches Kennedy”.
Great tour, yet we were not allowed to get over to the Senate side, as the Reps. stay on one side, Senate on the other. Never allowed to see the Senate side of anything, much less the eating facilities!
Strange I thought!, last time I’d been to the Capitol (in the fifties) there was no distinction, no security, no hassle. But I guess that’s the way it is now in Washington.
Heaven forbid that I would have mentioned that I was a devout pubbie, under Kennedy’s wing!
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