The List: Unnecessarily Shut Down by Obama to Inflict Public Pain

[Ender]

It is facinating to watch people in favor of smaller government getting excited about things the government does getting shut down. And these are small cuts.

"How dare they shut these places down!"

Come on, Zippy- you know as well as I do that the "gov" does not really own any land and has no business shutting anything down, let alone taking state lands over.

 

[better-dead-than-fed]

Come on, Zippy- you know as well as I do that the "gov" does not really own any land and has no business shutting anything down, let alone taking state lands over.

They need to shut down the fake shut-down.

 

[opal]

not sure how but the commissary on Eglin AFB has reopened...day before yesterday..restocking frantically yesterday

 

[tod evans]

not sure how but the commissary on Eglin AFB has reopened...day before yesterday..restocking frantically yesterday

Quick someone call the park rangers...

 

[Todd]

Someone said it best earlier.....but apparently the Federal Golf course is still open at Andrews AFB

http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2013/10/02/obamas-golf-cancelled/

 

[dannno]

26. Channel Islands National Park

One of the companies that goes out to the islands on a daily basis for kayak tours is losing $2k/day

 

[Lucille]

I bet you'll be shocked to hear that O Duce's not Barrycading Big Ski Resort and Big Campground. Just the little guys who can't afford a bevy of lobbyists and lawyers.

Forest Service Closing Only Small Private Campground Operators, Not Closing Large Ski Corporations or State Parks that Operate on Forest Service Land
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_bl...arks-that-operate-on-forest-service-land.html

As readers will know, the US Forest Service has issued and unprecedented and unnecessary order to close over a thousand privately-funded campgrounds that don't take one dime of Federal money (example here). All the 100+ parks we operate in the US Forest Service have been ordered closed.

But there appears to be more to this story. There are several groups that operate parks on National Forest lands under agreements nearly identical to ours who appear to have been exempted from the closure order.

Large corporations that run ski resorts and certain other large resort properties on National Forest lands have been exempted. It should be noted that ski resorts operators, unlike campground operators, have full-time lobbyists stationed in Washington and can afford in-house staff lawyers to fight these kinds of orders. My guess is that knowing they would immediately get sued if they ordered larger private firms to close, the USFS focused only on smaller and more helpless private firms.

Many state parks, including at least 3 in Arizona and many in California, are actually on US Forest Service land and operate through special use permits almost identical to those we have with the USFS, yet none of these parks have been asked to close (Slide Rock and Fool Hollow State Park in Arizona and Burney Falls SP in California are just a few examples of state parks that operate on US Forest Service land).

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The crass, petty, vindictive, creepy, anti-people Master of the Shutdown
http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/...ve-creepy-anti-people-master-of-the-shutdown/

The Master of the Shutdown, the head of the executive branch, the guy in charge of how it’s all being done (to us), Mr. Barry O himself, is one surprisingly small-minded, vindictive, nasty little S.O.B.

Among his orchestrations:

25 ridiculous things Obama shut down

Powerful, punitive, and petty

And no potty breaks, either
[...]
No doubt Obama hopes the Republicans will be blamed for these many expensive stupidities and petty outrages. Hey, lesser pettiness during the last shutdown worked for Bill Clinton. But bless the b*****d, it’s his name that’s going to be deservedly immortalized in the word “barrycade.” (I don’t know who coined that term; but if you find out, buy the genius a beer.) [Was it someone here at RPF? I read it here first. -L]

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I think a lot of people will understand this exactly. I just wonder how many will get something much bigger: If a spiteful president can shut down the Amber Alert system, cut off sports broadcasts to military bases, and shut people out of their homes on federal land today, how are things going to be next time when the same man — or some even more decadent emperor — has the power and the people-hating pettiness to cut off emergency medical care or barrycade major transportation routes?

 

[madengr]

18. Residents Plan Protest of Cape Hatteras Closing - "Businesses and residents on the Outer Banks have planned a peaceful protest of the closure of Hatteras Island's beaches due to the government shut down.

How do you "close" 100 miles of shoreline?

 

[acptulsa]

It is facinating to watch people in favor of smaller government getting excited about things the government does getting shut down. And these are small cuts.

"How dare they shut these places down!"

It always fascinates me to see the statist totalitarianism apologists act like it isn't natural for libertarians, having already had their money forcibly stolen and certain 'services' foisted upon them, to try to get people to see how much more unjust that is when the government fails to deliver said 'services'.

 

[dannno]

How do you "close" 100 miles of shoreline?

I dunno, but there's some good surfing out there.