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BREAKING: White House Ordering Hundreds of Privately Run, Privately Funded Parks to Close
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Posted on 10/03/2013 6:17:43 PM PDT by chessplayer

It’s official. They are shutting all of us down ASAP. Marching orders straight from the White House.

Update: Mr. Meyer emails to add that not only is his business being forced to take losses for the closures, but in some cases the government is making him and the other park management companies buy the barricades that will be used to shut the parks.

Warren Meyer of Phoenix, AZ, is owner and president of Recreation Resource Management, Inc. RRM employs about 400-500 camp workers and managers across about a dozen states. It is one of a handful of companies that have been managing national parks and campgrounds as tenants for years, through previous government shutdowns including the last one in 1995-1996. Those previous shutdowns never closed any of the parks managed in this way, but the current shutdown threatens closure.

The campgrounds are self-sufficient and receive no federal funding. No government employees staff or manage the parks. The management companies pay the National Park Service out of the funds they generate from operating the thousands of campgrounds. So the reason for the shutdown is puzzling to Meye


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To: chessplayer

They should just politely refuse.


41 posted on 10/03/2013 6:41:52 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: foundedonpurpose

Hopefully. In pecuniary matters ...if that’s possible.


42 posted on 10/03/2013 6:42:44 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: chessplayer

Note to Obama: American presidents ought to strive to emulate George Washington, not King George.


43 posted on 10/03/2013 6:43:20 PM PDT by MWS
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To: chessplayer

If the parks in question receive no funds from the Feds in the first place, what authority do they have to tell him to do anything? Or even KNOW what he’s doing? I hope he’s telling them to fuck off.


44 posted on 10/03/2013 6:43:28 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: chessplayer

So ‘his people’ don’t go camping?


45 posted on 10/03/2013 6:44:31 PM PDT by Gator113 (The mighty Bear ate the cowardly rat. Obama must resign.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
He is pushing way too hard in all the wrong directions. Really overplaying his hand. This is going to blow up on him, big time.

To which I say "Good! Let him over-play his hand!" I'm already hearing people mock the "Government shutdown" at work and out on the streets. This may actually work to the Republican's benefit by the time this is all over at this rate.

46 posted on 10/03/2013 6:45:04 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: miserare

High time for a few thousand patriots to liberate the Lincoln Memorial. Just show up, take down the Barackades, toss them in the back of a pickup, and tote them to recycling. Then occupy the memorial.

Send a second wave to the Washington Monument, a third to the Jefferson Memorial, Vietnam, and so forth . . . until they arrive at the Statue Of Liberty.

Imagine a flotilla of private boats approaching Liberty Island, horns honking, flares flaring, and sabres drawn.


47 posted on 10/03/2013 6:45:29 PM PDT by Boojum
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To: Parmy
Obama is doing this to cause as much pain as possible. If these park owners and operators have any courage, they will engage in civil disobedience.

It's not really even "disobedience", given that they have no authority to be making these ridiculous demands. More like "civil ignorance", simply ignoring people yapping about stuff that doesn't concern them.

48 posted on 10/03/2013 6:45:32 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Gator113

I dunno about you, but I’ve never seen one of them urbanite Obama voters camping .......


49 posted on 10/03/2013 6:45:39 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: chessplayer

Not puzzling at all, 0boma HATES regular Americans, puzzle solved.....


50 posted on 10/03/2013 6:46:22 PM PDT by machman
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To: ClearCase_guy

He is pushing way too hard in all the wrong directions. Really overplaying his hand. This is going to blow up on him, big time.
I feel more and more sure that he will openly use force against the population and try to take his tyranny to the next level.


You see it too?

I can’t even say what I want to say, but I’m guessing you know. I will say what we have is patience - not to be confused with weakness.

Our “red line” needs no heralding. They will know when it is crossed, and it sure won’t be on their terms.


51 posted on 10/03/2013 6:48:26 PM PDT by KittenClaws ( You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: SkyDancer

Nationalization of anything not Obama-owned.

They need to round the creep up.


52 posted on 10/03/2013 6:49:57 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of the Muslim Brotherhood))
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To: SkyDancer

Imbecile + Vote = Barak Hussein Obama


53 posted on 10/03/2013 6:53:02 PM PDT by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: usconservative

I don’t remember ever seeing one camping. I have seen a phenomenal amount of foreigners packed into rental RVs all over the country.


54 posted on 10/03/2013 6:54:17 PM PDT by Gator113 (The mighty Bear ate the cowardly rat. Obama must resign.)
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To: KittenClaws

“I can’t even say what I want to say, but I’m guessing you know.”

Ditto....


55 posted on 10/03/2013 6:56:36 PM PDT by Gator113 (The mighty Bear ate the cowardly rat. Obama must resign.)
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To: chessplayer

Recreation Resource Management, Inc. runs campgrounds in U.S. National Forests. It is an outrage that the Forest Service is kicking people out of campgrounds. Thanks Obama for killing our local economy.


56 posted on 10/03/2013 6:56:39 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: Red Steel

Agreed. I would go farther than financial. Sorry it’s the extremist in me.


57 posted on 10/03/2013 6:57:58 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose
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To: Vermont Lt

Here in Maine, at Acadia National Park, I heard on the radio day a guy who said he spent the entire day in the park riding his bicycle on the trails. No one stopped him.

He also said he saw hundreds of other people in Acadia today.

I’m not sure if you can drive in.....the people may have been on foot (there are many trails leading into the park from public roads on Mount Desert Island) or bicycle.


58 posted on 10/03/2013 7:00:40 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The Second Amendment makes all the other amendments possible)
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To: chessplayer; Nachum; MestaMachine; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; sweetiepiezer; txnuke; La Lydia; ...
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Check out article; this is beyond idiotic/ foolish.

IMNSHO, he keeps pushing because he wants CWII.

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59 posted on 10/03/2013 7:00:41 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: chessplayer

1st, they came for the parks.


60 posted on 10/03/2013 7:12:28 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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