Political Quotes

“It will be very difficult. Again, the folks in the Defense Department are very much in support of this type of reform because they want to go to the private sector, or at least they want to have the opportunity to go to the private sector. Typically, the private sector is going to be more flexible. From experience, we know they can provide a more cost-effective product and a better quality product. So, again, that is why Federal procurement officers are with us. The folks that are not with us are the bureaucracy within the Department of Justice; and I am hoping that somebody just rings the bell over there and says, wait a minute, guys, this is wrong. We need to stop this, and we cannot believe that on our watch this is what is happening. We are growing the inmate workforce at the same time that unemployment rates in many parts of the country are going up. Again, Federal Prison Industries and Office Furniture grew by 25 percent as the industry went down by 18 to 20 percent, a 45 percent differential. It is terrible to say, but I would probably have been overjoyed if Federal Prison Industries would have stayed level, but they did not even have the courtesy in this competitive, tough economy to not be greedy. They got greedy.”