Bush Cuts National Parks Funding
The 270 million annual visitors to America's national parks will start seeing the effects of President Bush's cutbacks this holiday season. The already under-funded National Park Services have been ordered to cut their spending by 20%.
This will cause facilities, camping grounds, and visitor centers to close.
Chairman of the executive council of the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, Bill Wade said..
"The national parks are probably in worse shape now than any of us have seen in our careers. The impacts go broad and they go deep. It’s not just roads, trails and buildings. There’s a decline in interpretive and educational programs. It actually extends into the very resources the National Park Service is charged to protect."
America's national parks -- for less
"Given all these financial pressures, the parks will have no choice but to cut more services, reduce access for visitors or rely more on private dollars. The Park Service takes in as much as $250 million a year from fees, donations and concession royalties. At Glacier, park officials are considering raising backpacking and camping fees." Kansas City Star
>> George W Bush, Politics, Environment
This will cause facilities, camping grounds, and visitor centers to close.
Chairman of the executive council of the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, Bill Wade said..
"The national parks are probably in worse shape now than any of us have seen in our careers. The impacts go broad and they go deep. It’s not just roads, trails and buildings. There’s a decline in interpretive and educational programs. It actually extends into the very resources the National Park Service is charged to protect."
America's national parks -- for less
"Given all these financial pressures, the parks will have no choice but to cut more services, reduce access for visitors or rely more on private dollars. The Park Service takes in as much as $250 million a year from fees, donations and concession royalties. At Glacier, park officials are considering raising backpacking and camping fees." Kansas City Star
>> George W Bush, Politics, Environment
1 Comments:
It does not surpirse me one little bit that a man so focused on the destruction of the world would do such a thing.
President Bush pretends to worship God, but in reality he worships ego, where the earth is low on the list of priorities.
He will continue licking the hands that feed him (oil companies and big business) until his time in the whitehouse is finished.
But how will he be able to look at himself when the power is gone?
His ego is fed now, but when he's old and alone his conscience will come knocking.
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