The state liquor monopoly has been overpaying truckers to ship booze from its Seattle distribution center to stores around the state.
At first, Pat McLaughlin, the Director for Business Enterprise for the Washington State Liquor Control Board told [KING 5] : "It was literally a day or two in the month of September."On the other hand:
A high level source in the Distribution Center tells KING 5 that the state may have been overpaying carriers for years, and it could add up to millions of dollars.There are increasing calls to privatize the state's liquor business, a long overdue move -- 77 years after Prohibition ended. Understandably, some liquor board employees are worried about their jobs.
But should the state's liquor business be privatized, its current workers will easily find other employment. The most capable would be snapped up by private liquor enterprises. The overpayers would be offered other government jobs, at, say, the new Obamacare bureaucracies.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at March 25, 2010 11:12 AM | Email ThisAnd we just experienced our wonderful political intellectuals in DC voting in health care that will be run by the government.
Can you imagine how much waste and incompetence will be part of this debacle?
I just can wait to get up in the morning these days to read what other level of stupidity comes down the pike.
Is it bed time yet?
The reason?
They are one of the hardest companies to deal with. Since they have a monopoly they expect everyone to conform to what they want and not to what is normal in the shipping business. As a result the costs to the carriers is higher. They just pass that on.
Posted by: Vince on March 25, 2010 01:07 PM