KCIndy
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What would happen to National Parks if Ron Paul close down Department of Interior?
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eduardo89
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LOL! Hey, if it were up to me.....
I'd go back to 1776 spending levels...$0
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Might not have to worry about Ron Paul closing the Parks, its always the first thing the government stops funding when it shuts down.And with the way things are going expect the parks to get closed longer when its not peak season. Eventually this is going to cut into tourism to some states where the parks are located, Yellowstone and Grand Canyon, for examples. The states are going to have to start helping fund or manage them somehow to keep them open and the visitors coming.
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The parks make up a tiny fraction of Federal land holdings. The vast majority is national forest and BLM, which is already leased out to timber, ag, and mining industry in one of the most egregious forms of crony capitalism. And the land is clear cut, strip mined, and over grazed. Government is a terrible steward of the land. The parks should be turned over to the states where they are located and the rest should be auctioned off, but only to individual American citizens and their partnerships - not corporations or non-citizens. Then let the market decide how that land should be used.
Basically, the OP's fear is the usual: he is afraid that HIS values will not prevail in the marketplace and so he wants the government to use force to impose HIS values on others. I might share his values, but do not accept the idea that I can use government to force my values on others. I will express my values by offering to pay to visit parks that remain pristine. If more people are willing to pay more money to visit some crap hole like Disneyland, well then I lose out. Doesn't mean I can start shoving a gun in people's face.
That having been said, this issue is pretty far back on the stove and is not a big seller.
Basically, the OP's fear is the usual: he is afraid that HIS values will not prevail in the marketplace and so he wants the government to use force to impose HIS values on others. I might share his values, but do not accept the idea that I can use government to force my values on others. I will express my values by offering to pay to visit parks that remain pristine. If more people are willing to pay more money to visit some crap hole like Disneyland, well then I lose out. Doesn't mean I can start shoving a gun in people's face.
That having been said, this issue is pretty far back on the stove and is not a big seller.
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Incredibly long waits for a government run service? Well I never....
I agree the land should be returned to the states. They are state assets.
Before auctioning them off or privatizing them I'd suggest looking into giving the land back to the families they stole it from in the first place. I know that at least parts of the Shenandoah National Park in VA were stolen. My family was not compensated, they were forcibly evicted (they carried my pregnant great grandmother off her property fighting) then they tore down her house and used the logs to build the park ranger's house (that's what they got for being the hold outs who didn't take the pathetic resettlement house offer in the beginning). They lost their farms, their homes, livelihoods, communities. Family members are still being buried in our family graveyard within the park.
Just another perspective.
Before auctioning them off or privatizing them I'd suggest looking into giving the land back to the families they stole it from in the first place. I know that at least parts of the Shenandoah National Park in VA were stolen. My family was not compensated, they were forcibly evicted (they carried my pregnant great grandmother off her property fighting) then they tore down her house and used the logs to build the park ranger's house (that's what they got for being the hold outs who didn't take the pathetic resettlement house offer in the beginning). They lost their farms, their homes, livelihoods, communities. Family members are still being buried in our family graveyard within the park.
Just another perspective.
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