In this time of budget crisis, why are the taxpayers funding haircuts, shoe shines, and hot shaves for Senators. The $350,000 annual deficit is being targeted by Sergeant at Arms, Terry Gainer. He is using the sequester as the means to cut the expense. Senators like the late Arlen Spector did not seem to understand the sickening sense of entitlement this perk portrays to the general public.
“If you start to privatize,” intoned Arlen Specter… “[y]ou put a lot of people out of a job, and you have a lot of disruptions.” Specter and his colleagues were also concerned about finding a barbershop that would cater to lawmakers’ irregular timetables. “I don’t know when you could get a haircut with our schedule around here. You can slip in and out of the barbershop in 20 minutes. If you have to go downtown, it will take an hour and a half.”
What kind of nonsense and backwards logic is this? If the public sector workers are out of a job, a private sector solution would fill the need. No wonder we are having such problems with Senators that think today much the same way Spector did when he was in the Senate. Maybe a little time waiting in line with the common folk might do these politicians some good!!!
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Supercuts: The Senate barbershop gets a trim.