Grand Canyon

filthy beast wrote:

noe-place wrote:
We took a trip to the Smokies this past week and of course everything was closed and barricaded; they had nearly all the PULLOUTS blocked with traffic cones so you couldn't stop for a photo. I talked to a guy at a local business who told me he had family working for the US Park Service and they had received letters from a certain high ranking politician with official letterhead telling them about the shut down and that they should make things "as painful as possible" for the public. The state owned visitor centers, etc were open.

I would like to actually see one of these letters. Otherwise it is just the "I heard it from the brother of a cousin of my therapist's nephew." If there are so many of these letters I would think at least one person would have made it available to discredit some politician.

I also thought that the states would be reimbursed for the cost once the government resolves the budget stuff. So as usual, we are spending money we don't have.

Yeah, I'd like to see one of them as well. I'd also like to see the hearings on Benghazi televised; I'd like to see congress while in session debating on passing a budget; I'd like to see congress in session trying to do anything and agreeing on it. I guess these people will not publish the letters for fear of losing their jobs. That seems to be the way things go in DC these days.