Posted on 10/10/2013 6:26:26 AM PDT by Lakeshark
The National Park System has a budget of $2.6 billion, much of it raised by concession and attendance fees. Even if it were entirely taxpayer-funded it would represent only .00068 of every federal dollar in our $3.8 trillion budget. Nonetheless, hardball-playing White House strategists have made it the most conspicuous instrument of pain inflicted by the federal shutdown.
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Will someone please ask Interior Department Secretary Sally Jewell, the former private executive from Seattle, why she is allowing her department’s most popular agency to play the shutdown goat? Surely the deployment of rangers as scolds and punishers — for the infraction of trying to use a park! — hurts the Park Service image. In its nearly 100 year existence, has the National Park System ever been exploited — day upon day — for such negative propaganda?
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So the reason the National Parks — with their nearly insignificant budget, and a budget the Republicans in the House gladly will fund if they get the chance — is being employed as a political weapon because it is so visible.
The motivation is has become blatant; it’s not money, since it takes staff to keep people out of Parks facilities. It’s politics. While war veterans were pushed away from open-air monuments on the Mall in Washington, an official exception was made for a rally on behalf of illegal immigrants. Vets, No; illegal immigrants, Si.
It would be funny, except that the mainstream media are trying hard not to get the joke. Their credibility is also an Administration goat.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Goat? Oh....you mean the goat he should be herding from his little hut in Kenya had he not been swept up for this grand debacle of becoming a false President?
For all the hysterical talk about having a gun pointed at his head, the truth is the only people who are in danger of being shot are old people who dare cross a Barackade or try to use a bathroom inside a national park.
It sure is giving us a window into how agents of the government will treat the citizens of the republic if there is any resistance to government edicts...
Prepare your mind accordingly.
Tell any liberal (and even some conservatives - I heard one this morning) that all laws have an implied “or else I’ll shoot you” attached to the end,
and they’ll tell you that is ridiculous.
But Obama is using the metaphor left and right.
Someone mentioned he was analogy impaired, almost as if he weren’t a cultural American. Someone who says “easy as cake” or “that’ll be a piece of pie”.
The good will that park rangers have built up over the years has been destroyed. &i$$ on them and Smokey the Bear, too.
They should expect the same treatment that a lot of Vietnam vets got when they came home.
-——why she is allowing-——
She is but a figurehead. The hard core apparatchiks installed lower on her organization chart are actually in control and the force behind the effort. They got the order directly from the White House.
Any correlation to Schroedinger’s cat?
Think about it...
Let the States run the National parks we dont need Federal Agents in there anyway. We do it with highway patrol..
Wow... seriously? That’s the Sec Interior?
Are there ANY heterosexuals in the present administration?
That’s a man, Baby! (or tranny)
I shoud ad to my comment...not that there is anything wrong with that.
Yes indeed. In my mind, it squares with Hussein’s and the left’s push to fill the military with sodomites and women, two left-voting demographics.
Well...it's easier to teach goats to surf than for Obama to learn how a lemonade stand works....
Goats surfing:
Lemonade stand:
Leaving the women out of it, but wrt the sodomites -
the purpose is to fill the ranks of authority positions
with people with an already seared conscience
so that they’ll have no qualms about carrying out egregious edicts.
Just like how local school boards always go after football and band. Thug tactics.
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