Comments on: Auditors: Senate Restaurants hemorrhaging money

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:28:01 +0000

Hey Michael Hampton F U…. what’s your point? Anyone can regurgitate public domain information. And you other posters don’t have a clue what you are talking about. First and foremost the Senate Restaurant is the only operation on the hill that is required to run a Profit and Loss statement. Do you think for a second that the gift shops and the stationary stores run by the Secretary of the Senate which are all over Capitol Hill are profitable? Hell NO, they just don’t have to make their reports public. The revolving fund or the correct name – Appropriated Funds that everyone who knows nothing here talks about is no different than what the Senator’s, Congressmen and support offices also use to staff their offices. Those numbers are also public info, why are you not “up in arms” about those numbers which would dwarf any losses posted by the Restaurants. The Senate Restaurant losses are peanuts, miniscule if compared to what is wasted in other areas of the government!!! Yes the Senate Restaurant IS a service but trying very hard to be a business. There are may things that the common “Restaurant Owner Wanna Be” can and does criticize the Senate Restaurants for but they don’t know the inner working (politics) of how the restaurants are managed. There are many very competent people at the helm doing the day to day “due diligence” but have many challenges that free standing, non government operations don’t have. So until you have ALL OF THE FACTS stop posting this bullshit because believe me when I tell you this you don’t have a clue………. and neither do you other idiots who posted their opinions………

By: arthur

arthur — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:31:25 +0000

Another slap in the face to the American public, the incredable ineptness of our congress to get even the smallest detail correct make s my blood boil. As is always the case, any fool can spend someone elses money. Who cares what it costs, it’s not their money. Make our congress responcible for their actions and we will all see change. Take the shortfall out of their pockets and everything will fall in line.

By: mr.ed

mr.ed — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:58:14 +0000

Overhead doubles this amount. As most legislators don’t come from industry, they have no conception of this.

By: Jeff Hoyt

Jeff Hoyt — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:15:28 +0000

You know, this news is actually a bit encouraging. The United States government is usually so incredibly stupid that it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that they really can be ordinarily stupid, at least on occasion.
I can just see the letters coming back from the Senate offices, ‘tsk-tsk’ing this terrible waste of taxpayer’s money while all the while never taking any responsibility.
$850,000.00 “appropriated”. How fitting that one definition of the word is ‘to take without permission’.