Our National Parks Are in Serious Trouble Due to Illegal DOGE Cuts

Only liberals were into that granola sh!t. Find something better to do with your time -- like maybe get a job?

Why are Democrats trashing the parks, leaving waste outside of toilets, and turning trails into dumps?

"Nature is gay! Going outside is woke! Public parks are communism!"

This is really too dumb to engage with, but I think it's probably a safe bet that the majority of people who litter at national parks are Republicans. Clearly, they do not respect public spaces or the environment.

The republican president Theodore Roosevelt was the one who get the ball rolling for these national parks. He doubled the amount of sites under the national park service. Also of note it was a republican president who started the EPA(Nixon). It says in the Bible we should be stewards of the land. I guess Christian Republicans don't care about that.

The with National Parks is just a representative example of what will happen in various ways with institutions and programs either within the federal government or reliant upon its funding.

”Cutting is necessary and must be steep,” and “not everyone will like all of the cuts” is not the same thing as saying that the tech startup ethos of “move fast and break things” is the way to go. That comes from people who don’t have a lot to lose from the breaking process.

As is the case in partisan politics, the opposition party is the one most vocal about the administration’s actions. So Republicans realize that the President is trying to target Dem pet projects and things they dislike or don’t care about. The feelings about that get amped up in the schadenfreude and “cry more” cries of Lib-owning glee.

That all makes it easier for so many people to forget that something they actually want will wind up on the chopping block (so Republican members of congress have to go beg and kiss the ring yet again) or that the downstream effects could be anywhere from fairly bad (Musk’s little “some pain” acknowledgment) to disastrous for many Americans, and that pain won’t be meted out solely based on who the sufferers voted for.

Where is the evidence? Another Democratic talking point. Trump is racist, Nazi, exist, homophobic, fascist, dictator, colluded with the Russians, golden showers, Democracy died in the darkness, and now he's cutting lowly-paid National Parks staff? The National Parks hasn't even hired their seasonal help yet. But they're cutting them! GTFO.

We had four year of an invalid Joe Biden doing nothing, and none of you cared? None of you cared that the media colluded to keep it quiet? GTFO.

Take a deep breath and look in the mirror.

Whatabout whatabout.

”none of you”?

Lots of people cared and do care. Lots of people say “here are pros and cons of electing on party” and then try to make an honest assessment of the other in the same way.

And we get immensely irritated when people like you are too blinded, ignorant, or disingenuous to do anything other than make the foolish assertion that if we’re calling out the current cons, we must not care about problems with anyone else.

Liberals really are the worst. Boden running over 6 % deficit in good economic times. But no cant Cut anything. Not even people employed to count animals in parks and rescue you after getting lost in the trail. You really want the governement to hold your Hand anywhere.

Parks are gonna be just fine. Earth abides

Yeah man! Right on! Who needs sled dog mushers at Denali National park anyhow? Extremely wasteful to pay a guy $35k a year to take care of a pack of sled dogs and demonstrate them to thousands of visitors to Denali each year. Fire him, and kill the dogs off with a few bowls of antifreeze (should cost less than $20 total, hows that for government efficiency?)

Instead we should all be making contributions to society like typing spy and witty comments into an anonymous running forum website.

Nonsense. Republicans hate National Parks. Why would we visit them?

You were silent for four years.

Remember when protesting Biden was an act of insurrection?

Now that a Republican is in the OO, the same is "patriotic resistance".

A significant chunk of the folks you'll see at National Parks are foreign tourists. Our Parks are incredibly cheap compared to some other places in the world. Moreover, we don't charger foreigners a different fee -- a privilege that is not extended to Americans when we visit parks abroad.

As an America-Firster, I think we should DOUBLE the park entry fees for foreigners and use that extra money to keep the parks adequately staffed.

DOGE laid off 1,000 park rangers who were in their probationary period. At first, the federal hiring freeze made it look like the NPS would not be able to hire any seasonal employees for the summer high traffic season. But the department of the interior is telling NPS that they can get an exception. Trump has not nominated a director for the NPS. The old director is still on as acting director.

I was at a National Monument over the weekend and the ranger there said that everyone is panicked over DOGE and Trump budget cuts. The NPS has been overwhelmed by the huge growth in attendance at national parks, monuments, historic sites and wildlife preserves. Funding/staffing cuts will mean closures. Especially in the busy summer months, rangers are constantly being called on to help lost/injured hikers, deal with forest fires, wild animal encounters and to manage the huge crowds and all the trash, traffic, etc. they bring to the parks. If there are closures, the local communities will get slammed as many rural communities near the parks rely on the busy tourist season to support their local restaurants, shops, lodging, etc. I would guess that for every dollar taken from the NPS, two dollars will be taken out of the local economy. I have friends who bought land in Terlingua, TX and rent out campsites for people visiting Big Bend NP. They are already getting calls asking whether they will give refunds if the park is closed this spring. Rumors in the community around Big Bend are that the rangers will have to close off a lot of the trail system in the lower lying areas in order to be able to concentrate on keeping the trails in the mountains safe.

local3news.com

Trump hiring freeze forces National Park Service to fire thousands

Emma Karnes

Learn about the impact of the Trump administration's efforts to reduce the federal government, resulting in job cuts at the National Park Service and implications for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Link:www.local3news.com/local-news/trump-hi...

MAGA: [listen to this exceptionally bad idea]

Republicans: "That's dumb. Solves exactly zero problems. In fact it just makes things worse."

MAGA: "But it owns the libs."

Republicans: "How does it own the libs?"

MAGA: "They won't be able to enjoy the outdoors, and a few people who were paid to look after it will lose their jobs."

Republicans: "Now that puts a totally different perspective on it. F*ck the treehuggers."

The sooner we close National Parks, the sooner we can sell the land for oil and agriculture exploration. It's the American Way!

How are the cuts illegal?