Posted on 04/06/2011 1:06:06 PM PDT by ColdOne
Miles from Washington, President Obama on Wednesday tried to persuade people that they should care about keeping the government open — because if it shuts down, they won’t be able to walk around national parks.
Obama told clean energy workers in Pennsylvania that some of them are probably thinking, “What do I care?” They should care, he said, because a shutdown would stall small-business loans and mortgage work.
And, if any of them wanted to vacation at Yellowstone National Park, “you're out of luck,” Obama said. “You may have to figure out if you can get your money back,” he said.
He added, “These are things that affect ordinary families day in and day out.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
What a great idea!
They will take better care of it and for less than the government!
Yes, so it begins...
Gov’t shutdown would affect Civil War anniversary
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A spokesman for the National Park Service says if there is a partial government shutdown, Fort Sumter in Charleston will close at midnight Friday.
And that will mean the touchstone of Tuesday’s 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War will be closed next week.
Park Service spokesman David Barna in Washington says the agency can’t keep one site open and close the rest of the nation’s almost 400 national parks and monuments. He says if the government shuts down, there is no money for any site.
Barna says the agency will keep only skeleton staffs at parks, which will affect everything from the cherry blossom parade in Washington to next week’s events at Fort Sumter.
Some anniversary events not on the National Park Service property will be staged.
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14394995
Government Shutdown Would Delay Release of U.S. Economic Data
Memories...
Government shutdown II
Some federal workers sent home;
Benefit checks could be delayed
December 18, 1995
Web posted at: 2:30 p.m. EST
From Senior White House Correspondent Wolf Blitzer
WASHINGTON (CNN) — On the third day of a new partial government shutdown, some federal workers were being sent home and President Clinton vetoed Republican-passed spending bills covering several cabinet-level agencies. Clinton objects to provisions in the measures that include aspects of the Republican legislative platform The measures would have provided funding for the Veterans Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The idiot doesn’t know that there’s probably 2,000 or so State parks that are pretty nice to see....
The roads are slated to open on April 15th (weather permitting).
The Park has two seasons:
Summer - auto travel
Winter - snowmobile and snow coach travel
It's closed between seasons:
http://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/hours.htm
Additionally, the facilities are currently closed:
http://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/open_closedates.htm#CP_JUMP_127493
WE NEED TO TAKE OBAMA TO TASK ON THIS!
MORE MEMORIES....
February 26, 2011
The Media’s Deadly Sin
By Carol Peracchio
Sixteen years ago, the Republican House of Representatives, led by Speaker Newt Gingrich, passed a federal budget containing spending cuts and slowing of growth in some programs. President Bill Clinton vetoed it. This caused the federal government to shut down for several days until the Congress blinked and passed another budget more to the president’s liking.
The mainstream media, which at the time consisted of the broadcast news networks, newspapers, and CNN, reported nonstop on the brief stoppage of nonessential federal services. They described the temporary closing of national museums in tones that rivaled the death scene from Camille for over-the-top heart wrenching hysteria.
Last year I was listening to the radio and heard that our area had experienced an earthquake during the night. I took the reporter’s word that it happened; it had been so mild that I slept right through it. In December 1995, if one weren’t visiting a national park or applying for a passport, the government shutdown had the same impact as that earthquake. In other words, if it hadn’t been for the media caterwauling, the majority of us wouldn’t have even known the shutdown had happened.
That didn’t stop reporters from using the brief interruption in sleigh rides in Yellowstone Park as an opportunity to caricature Newt as the “Gingrich Who Stole Medicare” and “a car bomber who wants to blow the country up.” For sixteen long years we’ve heard ad nauseam that the government shutdown of 1995 was so horrendous that it cinched Bill Clinton’s reelection.
And...???
The idiot doesn’t know that there’s probably 2,000 or so State parks that are pretty nice to see....
The Dims know only a few old songs, and this is one of them.
They’re playing it out of tune this time.
So is 90% of Yosemite. Yosemite Valley is open but the rest of the park is under dozens of feet of snow. Tioga Pass into the park likely won't open till July 4th this year.
Better idea.........leave Yellowstone open and shut down D.C.
“This cat is probably the most ignorant waste of air I’ve ever known. Right, Zero we’re all just sitting out here planning vacations because gas is 4.20 a gallon, the dollar ain’t worth a dime and there’s 20% unemployment.”
Meanwhile at a townhall he snarks to someone complaining about the cost of gas that they should trade in their SUV... What an arrogant jerk. Is he planning to trade in his armored SUV? Only the little people need to get rid of their cars...
That would make an excellent tag line! Very true!
One would think that our National Park system could easily make a profit if it was managed efficiently.
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