I hope that this will illustrate to people just how much the federal government has intruded into our lives.
Like these people can’t believe that their access to a beach on an ocean is actually a “federal benefit” taken away by the whim of a bureaucrat.
Other people were shocked that Skyline drive was closed — it is just a highway, like all the other highways maintained by the feds, so why is it closed? Because it has gates. I have no doubt the Obama administration would shut down ALL the interstates if they thought they could get away with it.
Like they did with the parking spaces on the sides of the road at scenic overlooks that are NEVER staffed by anybody. How many millions of dollars is this president wasting trying to inconvenience the American people?
Unfortunately, they have real gates at some of these places, not easy to get around to break through. I wish we had an uprising though to take back these places.
Don't the states do the actual work on those roads and pay for it with Federal gas tax collected in the several states, then sent to Washington, then disbursed back to the states? I thought that is how it "works".
Exactly.