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.
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This agency has worked years building goodwill and we’ve seen it destroyed by idiots of leadership in weeks. This broad should have gone to the mat rather than follow orders like a member of the 3rd Reich’s SS. But she didn’t because like most in his administration the important thing is basking in the glory of power. Personally, I will never view a National Park Ranger the same again.
. . . and the Brown Shirts don’t help matters. Especially when they say they were just following orders. . .
She was born in the UK and she’s married with children. I think she’s just a jock.
ABC ticker this AM says that $76 Million in fees & concessions is being lost EVERY day with park closures.
I am pretty sure that does NOT include private companies.
IF I had a lease on Federal land, would I be entitled to a refund or a financial adjustment because I could not operate my business?
Cliff House in San Fran is closed because they are on Federal land.
This is a nice, higher end restaurant and I am pretty sure they cannot afford to be shut down.
Also- How many employees are added to the unemployment rolls because their employers have been shut down by Obama?
I cannot wait to hear him tell us again ‘I am making jobs in this country my #1 priority”.
More of Obama speak!!
He sure is making jobs his #1 priority——he’s working very hard to kill more of them!!
He is such a liar!!!
She has the dried up prune look so many Communist women have when they get older.
That chick has crazy eyes.
“How many employees are added to the unemployment rolls because their employers have been shut down by Obama?”
Less than he threatened, when he sent home the fully funded defense contractors and inspectors and tried to keep them home despite specific law.
If anyone wants to voice their disapproval, the phone number is 202-228-3100. If you stay on through all the press 1 for this department stuff, you will hear to push 0 for an operator and get voicemail.
I have added her to my daily call list which includes Boehner, our Senators and Representatives, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnel and “no one has called my office to say they don’t want Obamacare” AKA Lindsay Graham.
I would call Reid and the boy king but they have disabled their voicemails, unlike the above listed people.
Who is that??
Interior Department Secretary Sally Jewell
“Someone mentioned he was analogy impaired, almost as if he weren’t a cultural American.”
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If he is ANY kind of American it is certainly not a cultural American, he is a shuckin’, jivin’ Turkey trying to pretend to be a real American. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl_ydH4B-18
Filthy rotten despicable Jezebel!
That’s a man, baby!
Seems to be enough homosexuals in this administration to warrant an investigation by the EEOC.
It’s not just the MSM...I have clueless friends who don’t see it either.
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