I say let the states run the parks permanently, and get the feds out of our lands!
Maybe the gov’t should sell off it Billion Bullet hoard.
Maybe the gov’t should sell off its Billion Bullet hoard.
It costs money to say “hey ranger, get out of the way and let us in”?
What would happen if…possible unintended consequence of the Presidents current plan of attack.
The shutdown continues federal funds earmarked for the states are withheld; the states decide to withhold state taxes owed to the federal government and instead use them to fund projects/activities the feds should have been doing.
It’s a win/win. Citizens realize that they don’t need the federal government as much as they have been led to believe. The states regain some of the rights they have lost to the feds. The feds get less money in the coffers, thus starving the beast.
I would not pay for a service not rendered, so why should the states pay for federal services not rendered.
A hog finds an acorn once in a while. A small group of us at FR have been saying the states should use Eminent Domain to take control of the parks within their borders permanently. Since the fed is offering, they should take control of the parks and not give them back.
Of course - they’ll only do it if the states “fully fund” federal agents.
Isn’t that nice of them. After all, we’ve already paid taxes toward maintenance of national parks - and now they’re going to make the states charge us again?
Only in Øbongo’s AmeriKKKa
If the states pay to open the parks the first order of business should be to boot out the park rangers!
They pay for them, they own them. It’s hard to see any rollback from the federal government owning everything to be a bad thing.
Why do I have to pay for an entrance fee to go gaze at a tree I own?
I guess we got in just in time. My wife and I visited all the Utah parks, as well as Crater Lake, in mid-September. I’d have been powerful pissed if we had pulled the trailer all the way fro NW Washington and found the parks all closed. And the missus has a way worse temper than I do.
de-nationalize the parks!!
how much does it cost to kick some cones aside ?
Bolt cutters are in more than a few vacationing cars.
We'll do it for free.
I wonder if the American populace is paying attention. There is an object lesson here.
The encroachment of the Federal Government into every aspect of our lives is plainly being played out here for all to see. What part of..{they are taking your money and saying that you have no vested interest in your own country}...don’t people understand?
These Parks and Wilderness areas do not belong to the politicians in Washington, DC. The USA citizens own those Monuments, Parks and Wildernesses. We have paid for them for years and compliantly sat back, like sheep, and watched the Feds regulate our access to them.
Every Park Ranger that participated in Obama’s directive, “To inflict as much pain as possible” on the American People, should be fired. Everyone of them should submit their resignations.
It time to put a stop to this expansive Government intrusion into our lives...hopefully, it isn’t too late.
During the time of slavery, many an escaped slave used the Cuyahoga River as their escape route, hoping to get to Lake Erie and then across to Canada. Well, many got to the Lake but not across. That is why the east side of Cleveland has one of the largest and oldest concentrations of descendents of slaves in the US. Now, that freedom trail along the Cuyahoga is a national park, forever preserved as a reminder of the path those escaped slaves took to freedom. That's right, folks. Obama (who isn't a descendent of slaves) closed access to that powerful symbol of freedom.
Ya' think maybe Destiny (the girl's name...honest) got that message to Representative Fudge? She represents those Cleveland area descendents of those brave and determined slaves who made their way to freedom. <^..^>
don’t go....make the NPS go deep into further dept....they should be paid back handsomely for their nazi thug tactics, the little weasels...
I say we don’t pay the Feds to re-open anything.
If it’s their property and they can close them at will, then they can self fund, like the post office.
Do Not Pay them.
...and states are paying the unemployment *Benefits* of furloughed *unessential* Fed employees....who will get their back pay when and if this fiasco ends. HMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.