Push to privatize National Park Service campgrounds

agesilaus wrote:
The report ot a moderator button still is FUBAR so I'm bringing this to the moderators ATTENTION MODERATOR before is devolves into a political furball.

This is not political. This is an informative article that should be of interest to practically every member of this group.

Bert Ackerman wrote:

gemsworld wrote:


Seniors are one group that might be hit hard by the policies, if adopted.

The memo argues that the 50 percent discount for seniors should apply only to base campsite fees and encourages NPS to introduce “new senior fee blackout periods during peak season periods.”

A good idea that makes a lot of sense. Why do seniors get a %50 discount to begin with, or a discount at all.

I suppose the theory is that:
1) They've paid taxes for 45+ year
2) They theoretically have lower incomes
3) They vote in very high numbers and are quite vindictive towards politicians that take away some benefit. They are also very loud while being vindictive.

Number three is obviously the most important from the political viewpoint.

gemsworld wrote:


Seniors are one group that might be hit hard by the policies, if adopted.

The memo argues that the 50 percent discount for seniors should apply only to base campsite fees and encourages NPS to introduce “new senior fee blackout periods during peak season periods.”

A good idea that makes a lot of sense. Why do seniors get a %50 discount to begin with, or a discount at all.

The report ot a moderator button still is FUBAR so I'm bringing this to the moderators ATTENTION MODERATOR before is devolves into a political furball.

A few years back the Supreme Court "Citizens United" gave BIG MONEY the right to use that money to control our government and nothing has been the same since (money=speech - the more you have the louder your voice). Until it's overturned, billionaires and corporations will use their power to squeeze every dollar they can everywhere they can. The payback for them has proven to be enormous and there's no end in sight. Citizens United is worst decision to come from the SC since the awful Dread Scott decision declared the Constitution of the United States was not meant to include American citizenship for black people. Decisions of the Court are not without flaws.