Melvin Watt: “What we need to put in context, however, is that Pookies' Parcel Post…”

On the recordSeptember 24, 1997

What we need to put in context, however, is that Pookies' Parcel Post and Lulu's and Anita's are all private enterprises in this country. This is one of those times when this notion that we should privatize everything that the Federal Government is doing basically went awry. This program, the DFS program, has been in existence for 15 years. It was put in during the Reagan administration. And now what we have found is that there are certain things that private enterprise cannot do as well as the Federal Government. So on that, I have to agree with the chairman of the committee. It probably never should have been done in the first place. This is too serious a proposition to give out to just anybody.

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Melvin Watt

North Carolina

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the role of private enterprise versus federal government in a specific program during a committee meeting.

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Melvin Watt: “What we need to put in context, however, is that Pookies' Parcel Post and Lulu's and Anita's are all private enterprises…”

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