Posted on 01/25/2009 7:06:03 PM PST by Perdogg
The estimated 1.8 million people who attended Tuesday's inauguration reduced the Mall to a barren wasteland, and it will likely require some major work from the National Park Service.
associated press This photograph by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, captures the scope of the historic inauguration, which attracted an estimated 1.8 million people. Much of the grassy part of the Mall is now off-limits to the public for several months, giving the grass a chance to regrow.
The National Park Service, which is in charge of maintaining the area, already has a maintenance team and a natural-resources staff inspecting the Mall to find the areas most damaged by attendees in order to cordon them off.
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Rope it off, plow it up and plant new grass. How hard is that?
Promise Keepers didn’t destroy it. But the promise-believers (of Lord Obama) did destroy it!
I have seen cites all over the country remodel, spending million, these low income housing developments. All new windows, siding, grass and trees, not to mention top of the line appliances and hard wood floors etc inside. Within a year the grass is gone, and the building are trashed, door hanging off the hinges and screens all cut. You begin to wonder why they continue to remodel these places.
Funny, the other day we visited with a brother in law, who is a lib, and he was saying he couldn't understand why clean decent people who would qualify, don't apply to live in them. (He managed them in his town) It just goes to show libs don't get it. Why would they want to??
Heck there are far more than that every year on New Years Eve in NYC, and even there, it isn’t that bad!!
I read in several places that the trash cans were taken away for security reasons. There were no trash cans at the mall during the inauguration.
They should have it fixed by summer,,,
Just in time for the Next party,,,
All that $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ down the tube...:0/
There is a HUGE difference between you guys and the nobama scum! They live like that!
So...they should have taken their trash with them!!
Nor is it left like that after the 4th of July in DC. They should be ashamed. If this is how Obama supporters represent themselves, they’ve left a terrible impression.
There is 200 million for the Mall in POTUS MUZZIE HUSSEIN and his fellow SOCIALISTS “stimulus package”
They didn’t even pick up their own trash. Why does anyone expect them to take care of anything?!
It reads over 100 TONS of Trash, (merchandise left, porta potties tipped over)
“Over one hundred tons of trash have been collected by clean up crews following Barack Obama’s historic inauguration Tuesday. Both Federal and District of Columbia sanitation workers - over 300 in total - have been working diligently this week removing the record amount of garbage left behind by the record setting crowd on the National Mall and surrounding areas in downtown Washington DC.
Refuse ranging from plastic bottles, wrappers and containers to blankets, sleeping bags and full on lawn chairs and chaise lounges littered the area in the wake of the inauguration. But the largest offenders were vendors who reportedly left behind piles of garbage and even merchandise, presumably after every one left and there was nobody left to sell to.”
Replace with astro turf. It’s the only way to insure Dear Leader’s rallies won’t wreck the place year after year,
Every time I see that photo, I think somebody airbrushed out the anguished Palestinian woman.
There are no trash cans in the woods. That's why there's this little jingle we campers and hikers use...pack it in, pack it out.
A concept lost on the enlightened ones.
You mean Lord Obama wasn’t able to raise his arms and command the sea of trash to recede to the nearest collection facility?
I’m so disillusioned.
I heard one fawning newscaster claim there were almost FOUR MILLION people there!
It is one thing to be downright LAZY and not bother with general upkeep of your FREE house, but I just don’t understand how/why folks who live in free housing TEAR UP everything and then live in it while it is ragged out!
It makes no sense. How can people wallow in filth and trash like pigs? It must be a mental condition.
Why cut out the screens and kick down the doors?
You see photos of bathtubs with a BLACK ring in it.
How in the world can someone stand in THAT shower?!
ugh!
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