Cuts to US national parks and forests spark outrage
Cuts to US national parks and forests spark outrage
Summary
The Trump administration's recent mass layoffs of national park and forest staff have sparked outrage as services deteriorate and safety concerns grow.
Around 1,000 National Park Service employees (5%) and 3,400 Forest Service workers (10%) were terminated on February 14, causing long entrance lines, trail closures, and reduced visitor services.
Former employees like wilderness ranger Kate White worry about visitor safety and ecological damage at popular destinations.
Conservation work for endangered species has halted, and wildfire response capabilities are threatened. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum defended the cuts as deficit reduction, while critics call for policy reversal.
All these fuckers talk about is deficit reduction. We gotta cut social services and stuff people rely on to save money cuz the deficit. But they aren't trying to save money. They're trying to give themselves the biggest tax break imaginable and add to the deficit. They just want us to pay for it.
It's the biggest fucking scam in the world And your representatives are lying to you so they can get rich.
Representatives aren't representing you. They represent their rich donors and themselves.
All Billionaires are bankrolled by taxpayer subsidiaries.
Capitalism is Communism for the rich.
Every dollar given to the IRS yields 5-9 dollars back in recovered taxes.
If I told you you could put a dollar in and multiply that by fivefold in a year, you'd be a fool to not leverage it.
If you were running america as a business, you would failing a fiducial duty by not investing in it.
Now, I wonder why the billionaires in charge of government don't do it?
Hmm.
There does seem to be a lot of wasteful spending, do you not agree?
I'd far prefer a minimum income or something along those lines. Or just fund electricity production instead if you're worried about people not working.
This is where it appears like the progressives don't actually help the average person, and you get someone like Trump elected.
The idea of what they consider to be wasteful and what I consider to be wasteful are very different things. And I don't want to feed into that narrative. They weren't worried about government waste till they wanted to give themselves bigger tax cuts. If they cared about actual waste, they wouldn't remove people in charge of oversight. NIH research isn't wasteful, CFPB isn't wasteful. USAID isn't wasteful. These things pay huge dividends to society. Removing contracts already lined up for other companies and giving it to yourself is the definition of wasteful. Removing the organizations that were investigating your labor practices is cronyism.
So no I don't agree. So if you wanna talk about helping the average person, maybe point to some changes that have happened that'll in some way actually help people and not just make the obscenely wealthly a little richer. But you're unlikely to find any.
Another instance of "this is what I believe progressives/leftists/liberals do" and being completely off about it. Lol This is becoming a thing around here, isn't it. Third time this week.