America the Beautiful Senior Lifetime Pass

Lwiddis wrote:

I go in and out of National Parks with a wave of my forever $20 Senior Pass while the guy behind me with the wife, three kids and a tight budget pays $35 at Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Devil’s Postpile etc. Why am I entitled to what is essentially “free” admission?

its simple.  we are a minority.  yes "we" is kinda misrepersented on the board as there are a lot of us "older" people who have time to sit on the keyboard, for the record, I am not a senior yetbut getting close.  

so the reality is most families on a tight budgit have good paying jobs and by tight budgit they are not blowing their savings and food money to enter.  Just like me, and most rational people, they make a budgit for the trip they are going on.  if you don't you tend to spend way more than you intended.  the other reality is they might do this once a year, maybe twice or maybe even less.  seniors on the other hand generaly don't even do that, and in most cases are on a very extreem fixed budgit.  now like I said it is fudged on the boards because we have a lot of seniors who seam to be able to go every weekend of the year.  but don't let that fool you we are a minority (I say we because I am close, even though work interfers with my camping haha) when I go to a campground it is actualy pretty rare to see seniors, unless you are in a resort.  ya I see the odd one, usaly camping with a group of family, but I would say over halft the time I don't even see anyone my age.  so for most that pass is a way to get out of the house, interact with people, all while keeping it afordable for the real people on fixed incomes.