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The National Parks cuts lay bare the idiocy and/or evil of DOGE
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Mar 13, 2025, 12:00 AM
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Over 1,000 National Parks employees were fired by DOGE. The average salary of a ranger is, we could say, modest. Either way, not costing the taxpayers much in the grand scheme.
Here's where this specific case shows the problem with DOGE. The National Parks pumped $55 billion into the U.S. economy last year. For every $1 of taxpayer money invested in the NPS, the NPS returns $10. They're a boon to the economy. Thus, it would be nonsensical to cut jobs indiscriminately there. Especially since the one doing the cutting took $38 billion to set off expensive fireworks.
Elon and DOGE are either completely incompetent with these cuts, or they're intentionally cruel. There's no in between. It's good they're finally starting to get reined in.
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Re: The National Parks cuts lay bare the idiocy and/or evil of DOGE
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Mar 13, 2025, 11:54 AM
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People travel from all over the world to check out those parks. They stay in hotels in surrounding areas, stay in big cities, eat and drink etc etc. Those National Parks are no place to skimp. They are national treasures anyway.
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Awesome. Cut it all. Sell them off.***
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Re: Awesome. Cut it all. Sell them off.***
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Mar 13, 2025, 12:13 PM
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That would be idiotic.
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Re: The National Parks cuts lay bare the idiocy and/or evil of DOGE
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Mar 13, 2025, 12:06 PM
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That's 5% of their workforce. If reducing their workforce by that small amount results in the end of the National Parks as we know it then whoever is in charge is incompetent and needs to be replaced.
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Completely missing the point
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Mar 13, 2025, 12:13 PM
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It shows the cuts are being made without thought behind them, or that they're just being made to be a jack ###. That's not good decision making, and brings the other cuts into question.
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Re: Completely missing the point
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Mar 13, 2025, 12:15 PM
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The people that work in the parks were already claiming they actually needed more people and not less.
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The folks left behind after a layoff always say that. (I'm saying that fully
Mar 13, 2025, 12:54 PM
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aware that no specific thought was made to these cuts...)
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Re: The folks left behind after a layoff always say that. (I'm saying that fully
Mar 13, 2025, 1:38 PM
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They were saying it before the cuts. They wanted more funding and more man power.
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These cuts are being made haphazardly, no doubt. But I have always been a
Mar 13, 2025, 12:34 PM
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big proponent of - "If I can save a dollar, why not save it?"
If there's 4 people collecting money as you drive into Yellowstone, and they really only need 3 - then get rid of someone. It's not cruelty, it's common sense.
(By saying that - I don't mean to imply common sense is being used. I just also don't agree that it's cruel to get rid of someone who is not needed.)
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There's not enough currently for what they need tot do unfortunately.
Mar 13, 2025, 12:35 PM
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Expect park closures, longer lines, and less kept spaces.
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Re: These cuts are being made haphazardly, no doubt. But I have always been a
Mar 13, 2025, 12:39 PM
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If there's 4 people collecting money as you drive into Yellowstone, and they really only need 3 - then get rid of someone. It's not cruelty, it's common sense.
Is that what's actually happening? If so, can you show me?
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No sir, I can't. I don't know if those 1000 probies were needed or not. I just
Mar 13, 2025, 12:48 PM
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don't agree with the premise of "cutting folks with modest salaries doesn't help much, so why do it?"
I do know that government jobs were the 2nd highest job growth sector in 2024 - so I agree that cuts likely need to be made in some places.
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Thanks for that clarification. It looks like they should be going after the
Mar 13, 2025, 2:52 PM
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Local Park Rangers instead of the National Park Rangers. : - )
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I know a former employee who was denied medical or compensation help by the
Mar 13, 2025, 4:32 PM
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Forestry Service for Lyme Disease she acquired in the field. You might want to do a little research into that whole scenario.
She wasn't just some yo-yo... She had her doctorate. This occurred LONG before Trump or DOGE...
I don't agree with cutting their funds. Heck, one of the best government programs ever was the CCC that built most of those parks.
They DO need better oversight and accountability. As to 'Parks", they are the reason I have an Airstream, both state and national.
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this should be fun
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Mar 13, 2025, 4:49 PM
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"DANCES WITH THE BEARS".***
Mar 13, 2025, 4:51 PM
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They have an entrenched bureaucratic clique just like most every federal agency.
Mar 13, 2025, 4:49 PM
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The history of it needs reviewing. I agree as to the the subordinates. It's the management that's responsible for the abuse.
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Re: They have an entrenched bureaucratic clique just like most every federal agency.
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Mar 13, 2025, 4:51 PM
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Moreover, nobody, and I mean nobody, knows more about the National Parks than Donald Trump.
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BS. I"d take my friends' opinion on it over most any I've seen expressed.***
Mar 13, 2025, 4:52 PM
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Whatever you do, please
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Mar 13, 2025, 5:39 PM
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maintain your opinion that there is no government waste and nothing should be cut.
That's because I like WINNING!
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they've never been outside, they live in mommy's basement***
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