Posted on 10/07/2013 1:18:05 PM PDT by Libloather
As Columbus Day weekend approaches and New England fall foliage reaches its peak, the U.S. Forest Service has decreed that 22 privately run campgrounds in New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest will have to close because of the government shutdown.
According to the Union Leader, while the campsites are situated on federally owned land, they are entirely run by a private company, which has a contract to operate the sites and which pays the federal government a cut of the fees it collects. That means the closure will not only prevent thousands of campers from using the facilities, it will actually cost the federal government money it would have collected if it had simply done nothing.
Kent Tower, the president of the company that runs the campsites, told the Union Leader that the federal government does not contribute anything to running or staffing the sites. “We pay all the maintenance, all the upkeep, all the help, all the insurance,” he said. “All the trucks, all the equipment is ours. They have nothing to do with it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
He thinks he can hurt the average taxpayer and they will
bend but I got news for him, it just makes us madder
than heck and we ain’t gonna take it laying down.
This is America and we don’t play that sh*t.
Doesn’t anyone remember Lexington
It’s that time again.
What does their lease say and where the heck is the emergency injunction suit??? Isn’t ANYONE fighting back?
My read of the article is that the parks ARE run by "private industry" and then they pay a % of their profit to the Feds.
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they are entirely run by a private company, which has a contract to operate the sites and which pays the federal government a cut of the fees it collects. ... it will actually cost the federal government money it would have collected if it had simply done nothing.
...the federal government does not contribute anything to running or staffing the sites. “We pay all the maintenance, all the upkeep, all the help, all the insurance,” he said. “All the trucks, all the equipment is ours. They have nothing to do with it.”
They have closed Inns, living history museums, access to Mt. Vernon. etc - all privately owned.
Why aren't the republicans, FOX, us, you, screaming this from the roof tops.
It's NOT the republicans doing this! It's the WH - playing the Narcissist in Chiefs game of 'getting even"
And BTW! the reason he hasn't closed 'his' golf course on the base - where the commissaries ARE closed, is because 'it's supported by user fees.
HELLO. Anyone out there able to connect the dots. These parks, inns, etc are supported by 'user fees'. What is the difference, except that the Boy Who Would King will never deny himself HIS 'privileges."
WE need to be careful to know the truth of it ourselves and not get caught unable to refute someone who says the WH has the right to do this - AND be clear that it IS at the direction of the WH
BEYOND THE PALE
Shutdown Shame: Denying Troop Death Benefits
Time to start screaming, folks!
Camp there anyway. Get cited. And then have standing to sue.
Big news stories...
It's time for exaggerated civil disobedience.
Out-Alinsky the Alinskyites.
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