I am deeply concerned about the volume of careless layoff happening at the federal level, especially as it pertains to the resources that so many Americans need to enjoy public lands. Cutting staffing and funding for the National Park service heading into spring break and summer peak travel seasons is positively cruel. No one is getting wealthy working for the NPS (unlike Elon Musk growing ever richer via government contracts), and yet the people who make it possible for campgrounds to be maintained and scheduled, parks to be kept open and accessible to people of all ages, and visitors to be kept safe from dangers like unmaintained paths, bad actors, or accidents (rangers, EMTs, law enforcement) are being laid off or having their funding gutted.
I pay my taxes, I expect that those taxes go to the public good like the National Park Service, not greedy megalomaniacs from South Africa who throw baby programmer wrecking balls at any program they don't agree with. And if you wonder if the people of Florida like the idea of parks being turned into private golf courses or other moneymaking strips, remember well the absolute pandemonium that the "disc golf and golf courses at state parks" set off. We have a national Forest right in Ocala, don't think we won't notice if these cuts hurt Floridians and tourists who love outdoor recreation.
Get it together - save our National Park Service!
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