It is time to eliminate the National Parks

Realisticer wrote:

I hate to sound like a nihilist, but it is time to eliminate the National Parks. With the economy in shambles and our country's population growing at a rapid rate, we need to utilize the land currently seized by useless National Park systems. Yes, I realize they are pretty. Yes, I realize that they are unique. Good! All the more reason to use them for the greater good. There is no tangible good in just keeping them sitting there, not doing anything but wasting away. Much of this land would be prime development space. It's time.

+1.

3/10.

No real reasoning for it. It just "feels" like a 3/10.

Good luck!

Realisticer wrote:

I hate to sound like a nihilist, but it is time to eliminate the National Parks. With the economy in shambles and our country's population growing at a rapid rate, we need to utilize the land currently seized by useless National Park systems. Yes, I realize they are pretty. Yes, I realize that they are unique. Good! All the more reason to use them for the greater good. There is no tangible good in just keeping them sitting there, not doing anything but wasting away. Much of this land would be prime development space. It's time.

Is there any real reason for you?

Agreed. Pave them all over!! I can never find a parking space anymore!!

Also really tired of tripping over all of the roots and rocks on those trails. Concrete is much more runner friendly.

They feel more embalmed than "protected." I agree with the OP. Keep a few of the major attractions as roadside stops but enough with the museum crap.

Realisticer wrote:

I hate to sound like a nihilist, but it is time to eliminate the National Parks. With the economy in shambles and our country's population growing at a rapid rate, we need to utilize the land currently seized by useless National Park systems. Yes, I realize they are pretty. Yes, I realize that they are unique. Good! All the more reason to use them for the greater good. There is no tangible good in just keeping them sitting there, not doing anything but wasting away. Much of this land would be prime development space. It's time.

Not a chance. Liberals created them and they will never let them go. And, trust me, they won't listen to reason. To a conservative, it makes no sense to conserve precious natural resources. Liberals act like the natural resources are assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased and not impaired in value.

DAMN YOU OBAMA!!!!!!

good luck with that champ, there's a reason why the higher educated vote democrat. To keep idiots like you away from power.

You seem to have a great mind. So what do you propose as an alternative?

senor filet wrote:

You seem to have a great mind. So what do you propose as an alternative?

If we don't use our land so as to increase their usefulness (instead of wasting and exhausting them) we will undermine the future for our children instead of developing it like we out to. That is simple.

TeddyRuxpin wrote:

Not a chance. Liberals created them and they will never let them go.

ummm, Abraham Lincoln, a republican, created the first national park, Yosemite.

Too many anecdotes!

I agree . . . burn it all down!

But first we should be allowed to eat anything on the endangered list, cause you know you want to.

I think this is a decent idea. The National Parks don't offer much real value, and we all know the kind of people that visit the Parks. No need to provide something "nice" to these kind of people.

TeddyRuxpin wrote:

Not a chance. Liberals created them and they will never let them go. And, trust me, they won't listen to reason. To a conservative, it makes no sense to conserve precious natural resources. Liberals act like the natural resources are assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased and not impaired in value.

As you well know, the first National Parks were established under Republican Presidents.

If you want to destroy the backbone of America I'll happily buy you a one way ticket to Syria

Mr. Peychok wrote:

good luck with that champ, there's a reason why the higher educated vote democrat. To keep idiots like you away from power.

Oh, the irony.

0/59 (one for each National Park)

Troll harder, bro.

Realisticer wrote:

I hate to sound like a nihilist, but it is time to eliminate the National Parks. With the economy in shambles and our country's population growing at a rapid rate, we need to utilize the land currently seized by useless National Park systems. Yes, I realize they are pretty. Yes, I realize that they are unique. Good! All the more reason to use them for the greater good. There is no tangible good in just keeping them sitting there, not doing anything but wasting away. Much of this land would be prime development space. It's time.

Economy in shambles? That is debatable. The debt is a concern, (for me anyway) so I will grant you this as a relevant concern. I don't know if rate of pop growth is increasing.

Even if we concede this point I don't think we are that hard pressed for vacant land to house people.

The majority of the Natl Parks are in remote locations, far from population centers.

The greater good is what they are used for right now. Proposal denied.

genuine random a hole wrote:

The greater good is what they are used for right now. Proposal denied.

What about fossil fuel drilling and vacation development? We can at least have the conversation, right?