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    Obama Illegally Shuts Down Hundreds of PRIVATELY FUNDED Parks

    Obama Illegally Shuts Down Hundreds of PRIVATELY FUNDED Parks




    Yesterday, we reported that Obama shut down a park that wasn’t even using government funds. It looks like this was only the very tip of the iceberg.
    Now, reports are coming in that the White House directly ordered federal police to force hundreds of parks nationwide to shut down — that were privately funded, privately run, and were often even paying the federal government money.
    This means Obama is spending money to shut down parks that earn the feds money — to make the “shutdown” look worse for political reasons. This is basic propaganda, and the media is pretty much ignoring it in order to support him through silence.


    From PJ Media, directly quoting one of the managers of the parks:
    Warren Meyer of Phoenix, AZ, is owner and president of Recreation Resource Management, Inc. RRM employs about 400-500 camp workers and managers across about a dozen states. It is one of a handful of companies that have been managing national parks and campgrounds as tenants for years, through previous government shutdowns including the last one in 1995-1996. Those previous shutdowns never closed any of the parks managed in this way, but the current shutdown threatens closure.
    The campgrounds are self-sufficient and receive no federal funding. No government employees staff or manage the parks. The management companies pay the National Park Service out of the funds they generate from operating the thousands of campgrounds. So the reason for the shutdown is puzzling to Meyer.
    Today, he sent a letter to both of his senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake, asking for help to keep his parks open.
    “My company, based in North Phoenix, operates nearly over 100 US Forest Service campgrounds and day use areas under concession contract. Yesterday, as in all past government shutdowns, the Department of Agriculture and US Forest Service confirmed we would stay open during the government shutdown. This makes total sense, since our operations are self-sufficient (we are fully funded by user fees at the gate), we get no federal funds, we employ no government workers on these sites, and we actually pay rent into the Treasury.”
    Notice that last part. The parks not only do not cost the taxpayers any money, they pay funds into the Treasury out of the fees park users pay. Shutting them down will cost the taxpayers money.
    How much? Meyer told the Tatler that his parks generate hundreds of thousands of dollars per week. Multiply that across his competitors and the Treasury could lose a few million dollars, in what is essentially free money to the government, over the course of the shutdown.
    Incredible. Millions of dollars are being destroyed, money is being spent, and private parks are being barricaded — for Obama’s political games. What a pathetic man and government.
    The man mentioned above later emailed the author at PJ Media, and wrote:

    It’s official. They are shutting all of us down ASAP. Marching orders straight from the White House.
    He also wrote the following:
    We are like prisoners of war who have to pay for our prison.
    Is this legal? Of course not. There is no legal authority to shut down parks and violate contracts that likely exist — he’s going out of his way to disrupt businesses that should be allowed to fairly operate as they have been doing.
    From the Daily Caller:
    During the government shutdown, the Obama administration has forced the closure of privately owned parks, stoking calls from lawyers for park owners to take legal action against the federal government.
    “As a lawyer who once worked for the government, I assume there is no legal authority for this because these private tourist attractions were not shut down in prior ‘government shutdowns,’ even under Bill Clinton, who understood how to play political hardball,” Hans Bader, senior attorney at the Competitive Enterprise Institute wrote in an email.
    A lawyer with the conservative Heritage Foundation said that the Obama administration’s actions were likely illegal and that business owners forced to close shop should sue.
    Please spread this. We all know the media won’t do it — let’s do their job for them.


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    Obama didn't just shut down one privately funded park... he ordered HUNDREDS of them to shut down that were actually paying RENT to the feds.

    He even sent federal police to illegally shut down the parks, leading one manager to say they felt like "prisoners of war".

    He's right. This is a war... and we're under attack from the INSIDE. Agree?



    Obama Illegally Shuts Down Hundreds of PRIVATELY FUNDED Parks



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    He thinks we won't figure it out and that the media won't report it. Fight back and SHARE:






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    Here's a video of the WWII vets symbolically seizing control at the WWII memorial:

    http://www.capitalisminstitute.org/still-got-it/

    The media refuses to report that the WHITE HOUSE ordered the barricades to be put up. Fight back and spread the truth.







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    Thomas E. Woods Jr.



    So if 800,000 federal workers are furloughed and life more or less goes on as before, is there a lesson to be learned?


    Sounds about right to me!!!!

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    Shutpocalypse, brought to you by the mainstream media

    By Mark Lisheron / October 3, 2013


    By Mark Lisheron|Watchdog.org


    I am pretty sure the parents of the children enrolled in the Head Start program in Talladega, Ala., don’t much care who is to blame for the selective shutdown of our federal government.



    Although they probably will be too busy scrambling around looking for temporary day care, these parents wouldn’t have to look very hard to find their villains.
    WHO’S TO BLAME: Everyone
    wants to blame someone for the fallout from the federal government shutdown.




    In the never-ending stenography of brinksmanship that is the coverage of our political system in America, the bad guys are very easy to pick out. They are, of course, those renegade members of a certain political party bent on tearing down our government and, along with it, our democracy.
    And while the national media stays fixed on the political finger-pointing, the local media fans out to chronicle what the villains have wrought.




    • World War II veterans engaged in hand-to-hand combat with park rangers trying to walk around their own memorial.
    • More than 60,000 employees of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies thrown out of work.
    • All but 549 National Aeronautics and Space Administration workers laid off.
    • More than 40,500 Department of Health and Human Services employees, including every one of the employees who serve 19,000 children in the Head Start program in and around Talladega.

    In short, it’s Shutpocalypse.



    “This time is different,” New York Times columnist Tom Friedman proclaimed with the gassy and self-important fatuousness that has earned him three Pulitzer Prizes.


    Except that it isn’t. Google “This time is different,” and you get 3.55 billion hits. No, Tom, this time is just the same, only maybe a little louder.
    Given that we live in America, a land bereft of institutional memory, it might be impossible to remember back less than eight months ago to something called the sequestration. It was a different name for a different kind of shutdown.


    But the mainstream media gave us everything they thought we needed — the titanic political struggle, the villains and the victims. But just like Shutpocalypse, they left out the most important part.


    The why.


    Easy enough to chide the tea party Scrooges from keeping Mom and Pop Smithers and the brood from getting a good look at Old Faithful. But it’s something else again to tell thousands of families across the country whose lives are now inextricably bound up in a federal program the program is ending, immediately.


    While you won’t find it in the mainstream accounts, it seems that at the first warning agencies were asked to provide contingency plans in the event that Congress stopped funding the federal government.


    Agencies like Health and Human Services were asked to divide their employees into two groups, essential and other than essential. While the first group included those whose jobs protected life and property, the second group was considerably more broadly defined.


    Even a cursory look shows how much latitude each agency had in developing its contingency plan. Still, each contingency plan was supposed to have oversight and guidance from the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget.


    And each and every contingency plan was supposed to have gone on to a review by the White House. You can find a list of those plans here.
    In its contingency plan, the Department of Health and Human Services determined that all of its Head Start employees were not essential. You can find it here, on the third page of the plan.


    You also won’t get any further help from the Office of Head Start website, which warns that it stopped updating its site due to the government shutdown.


    If proper procedure was followed, the Office of Personnel Management, the Office of Management and Budget and the White House agreed with Health and Human Services that those Head Start employees were not essential.


    Don’t expect any of this reporting to make its way into the mainstream, where it’s much simpler and in keeping with the particular world view not to assign black hats to the wrong people.


    Reporter and editor Daniel Froomkin, in a column published by AlJazeera America Tuesday of incredible intellectual dishonesty, said the remedy for the current state of reporting is less reporting and more opinion dressed up as the truth.


    Froomkin identifies the usual suspects to blame for destroying democracy, but ends up making the case that democracy is too important to be left to journalists “suckered into embracing ‘balance’ and ‘neutrality’ at all costs” and a public too stupid to see it Froomkin’s way.


    The folks in Talladega and everywhere else deserve a hell of a lot more right now than the opinion of Dan Froomkin.
    Contact Mark Lisheron at mark@watchdog.org



    Please, feel free to "steal our stuff"! Just remember to credit Watchdog.org. Find out more
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