The Obama administration (click here) has joined the growing chorus of critics of a Senate proposal that takes steps to privatize commissaries.
"The administration has concerns with commissary privatization and the willingness of private sector entities to participate in such a project," said Tuesday's statement from the Office of Management and Budget.
A proposal included in the Senate Armed Services Committee's draft version of the 2016 defense authorization bill would require the Defense Department to develop a plan due by next March 1 to privatize the Defense Commissary Agency, wholly or in part, and assess the potential costs and benefits of such a move. DoD would have to test its privatization plan in at least five commissaries chosen from the commissary agency's largest U.S. markets.
The bill is before the full Senate on Wednesday, and Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., is expected to introduce an amendment to reverse the privatization plan....
President Obama should veto any bill containing such Republican crony objectives.
I don't care what any study shows, THE MILITARY AND THEIR FAMILIES DON'T WANT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They don't want it. They want to have their commissaries the way they want them. Leave them alone !!!!!!!!!!!!!
