Posted by
Bob Wood aka TrekTek on Friday, October 24, 2008 6:14:44 PM
Recently Congress closed the House Cafeteria and reopened it under the control of a private contractor. Now comes the headline from TheHill.com: Staffers protest cafeteria price hikes
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Jeff Ventura, spokesman for the CAO (Chief Administrative Office, which oversees the House eatery vendor, Restaurant Associates), said the price hike reflects the same increase families throughout the country are enduring during these hard economic times.
“This is not the school lunch program,” Ventura said. “I think American taxpayers would find it deeply troubling that, in this economy, a small group of Hill staffers feel they are entitled to receive a special, taxpayer-subsidized exemption from the food price increases every hardworking American family is now struggling with.” |
What a bunch of cry-babies! Let 'em give up their cushy gubmint jobs and go find a real job in the private sector.