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Feds: Tenn cost for reopening Smokies $60K per day
AP via WJHL ^
| October 14, 2013
| ERIK SCHELZIG
Posted on 10/15/2013 5:58:05 AM PDT by don-o
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam says a deal to open the Great Smoky Mountains National Park parks in Tennessee for the weekend came too late for the state to send money to the federal government.
The price tag? $60,000 per day.
(Excerpt) Read more at wjhl.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: North Carolina; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; debt; govtshutdown; greatsmokymtns; parks; shutdown; waste
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To: don-o
time to transfer federal lands back to the states, IMO!
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posted on
10/15/2013 6:51:08 AM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: elpadre
time to transfer federal lands back to the states, IMO! Pushing on that could be a great way to begin to reassert power of the states. I'm all in.
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posted on
10/15/2013 6:55:16 AM PDT
by
don-o
(Hit the FReepathon hard and fast! Nail this one for the Jimmer. Do it now!)
To: rightwingextremist1776
That didn't stop the Feds from seizing the WWII memorial. The Meteor Crater is privately owned and is on privately owned land. The nearest Fed property is I-40 a few miles north. I guess the feds could close the off ramp (/S).
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posted on
10/15/2013 7:09:54 AM PDT
by
CPOSharky
(Democrats must love the poor, they just keep making more and more of them.)
To: don-o
Big mistake! Numbers are not feelings or emotions. They are subject to quantification and verification thru audit.
Where is the $60,000 per day going? How is it being spent? How are the disbursements supported?
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posted on
10/15/2013 7:21:16 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: elpadre
Da rent's too damn high!
The national parks service seems to be a Tony Soprano enterprise.
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posted on
10/15/2013 7:22:52 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: blackdog; bert
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posted on
10/15/2013 7:23:12 AM PDT
by
don-o
(Hit the FReepathon hard and fast! Nail this one for the Jimmer. Do it now!)
To: don-o
I asked for an accounting of the $22,000,000 for the park’s annual expenditures? I had an aunt who was an executive with the National Park Service. It’s quite the rouse, attracting all kinds of federal level grifters.
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posted on
10/15/2013 7:27:10 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: don-o
Line one - $30K Jarrett’s wallet
Line two - $25K Stompy Feet’s wallet
Line three - $5K Nancy’s wallet
Line four - $2K Hillary’s wallet
Line five - $2K NSA
Line six - $999 Boehner’s wallet
Line severn - $1 Plug’s wallet
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posted on
10/15/2013 7:30:18 AM PDT
by
bgill
(This reply was mined before it was posted.)
To: don-o
Did you know the park service operates facilities in the Carribean? Politicals go there for "conferences".
I bet they are not closed right now and the towel boy has a limitless stock.
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posted on
10/15/2013 7:33:29 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: don-o
Why should Tennessee send the feds any money. They should instead send them a bill.
To: bert
$60, 000 x 365 = $21,900,000 the annual Smokies budget That money belongs in Tennessee coffers, not Washington's...
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posted on
10/15/2013 7:40:27 AM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: blackdog
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posted on
10/15/2013 7:49:16 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: don-o
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andros,_Bahamas
Scroll down to the Legacy header.
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posted on
10/15/2013 7:55:03 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: don-o
And Guam, Puerto Rico, and a few inaccessible islands around the Bahamas. They service them with sea planes and ferry. The National Parks Service actually has in it's forward plans to manage facilities around the world. At least only the nice places.
People just don't know?
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posted on
10/15/2013 8:15:43 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: who knows what evil?; don-o
-——That money belongs in Tennessee coffers——
Well not exactly.....
The crest of the Smokies along which runs the Appalachian Trail, is the border between Tennessee and North Carolina. Then to complicate it further, a calculation of the acreage in each state would be required and pro rated to each state.
However since park head quarters an maintenance operations are on the Tennessee side, an administrative factor factor would need to be applied. Then I’m pretty sure the NC folks would raise the issue again of the road promised on their side that has been promised for ever but never built. It is also possible that since the park abuts the Cherokee Reservation, they might claim some of the acreage there.
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posted on
10/15/2013 8:40:15 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
To: bert
A bit confusing...I thought Haslam was referring to the costs involved with the Tennessee portion of the park.
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posted on
10/15/2013 8:52:19 AM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: who knows what evil?
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posted on
10/15/2013 8:59:24 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
To: Sacajaweau
Thanks. That is an excellent explanation. And the Feds will never willing give things up because of the reduction of power. They would rather bring the money to Washington, take their bite and send the rest back down stream.
To: Sacajaweau
On a related subject is there any way that State & Local government can charge Federal agencies for services that they are currently providing and which they are not being paid?
To: Portcall24
They have contracts just like anyone else.
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