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I guess people who don't visit National Parks don't care.
.[URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/02/21/new-details-emerge-of-cuts-to-national-parks-during-sequester/?hpid=z1"]New details emerge of potential sequester cuts to national parks[/URL]
Yes, the sky directly over them will fall, while the rest of the sky stays firmly up in the, well, sky.
Give me a break - enought of your knee-jerk, jerk.
How did these areas survive for millions of years? Sorry, nobody is going to buy the doom and gloom. If people who use the parks have to spend an extra $4.00 a night for camping it won't be a big deal.
Businesses have had to cut 5% and have done it without the world ending. If this is the price for getting the debt under control it's a small price to pay.
There is nothing out of Obama's mouth except rhetoric & propaganda.
Under the so-called "draconian" sequestration plan, spending will increase by $1.6 trillion over the next ten years - instead of by the planned increase of $1.7 trillion.
Yet even these phony cuts are too much for the spending addicts on Capitol Hill!
hogwash. i used to work in the national parks for 14 seasons, and there were many budget cuts and the parks always opened on time, and while there were times a few visitors centers were closed, there were many that remained open.
take the grand canyon for instance, the south rim is open year round. in shenandoah national park there were a few visitor centers closed due to budget cuts, and NONE of them were missed as not only did the other centers take up the slack, but so did the vendors in the park. also the gates remained open just no rangers were manning them between the hours of 11pm and 5am. same with other parks around the country.
understand that 80% of each parks budget comes from entrance fees.
in the end all that is going to happen is a rearrangement of government work schedules, and more reliance on vendors in the parks.
The sequester cuts are now officially in place, but many government agencies appear to be hiring freely anyway. The U.S. Forest Service on Monday posted help-wanted ads for a few good men and women to work as “recreation aides” this summer, the Internal Revenue Service advertised for an office secretary in Maryland, the U.S. Mint wanted 24 people to help press coins, and the Agriculture Department said it needs three “insect production workers” to help grow bollworms in Phoenix.
Turn it into BLM land. Or do we really need some place to buy stuffed animals while we visit these?
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