Washington can boast of getting 14 nationwide parks, recreation areas and historic websites run by the Nationwide Park Service, essentially the most distinguished being Mount Rainier Nationwide Park, North Cascades Nationwide Park and Olympic Nationwide Park.
If you visit any one of those priceless parks in the coming months and discover understaffed facilities, rubbish piling up, applications cancelled and hours curtailed, you’ll be able to thank Elon Musk, President Donald Trump’s hatchet man, who’s hacking away at federal businesses with a chainsaw as an alternative of a scalpel.
Our nationwide parks are perennially in need of employees and cash, despite the fact that most People are grateful that the federal authorities has put aside these treasured websites for the good thing about us all. On condition that, it’s sheer idiocy to undermine them additional by slicing 1,000 individuals from the ranks of rangers and different parks workers, together with firing one other 3,000 employees from the U.S. Forest Service, which works in shut coordination with the parents on the parks.
Solely an ignorant idiot would make such unjustifiable and arbitrary cuts – or an conceited tech billionaire who’s so satisfied of his personal genius that he thinks it’s a sensible thought to decimate the federal workforce without any coherent plan or understanding of the dire consequences.
Musk could also be sensible in his line of enterprise, however he’s no smarter than a C-student at a middling highschool relating to comprehending the myriad important roles performed by federal employees in our nation. Nonetheless, Musk shouldn’t be as ignorant as Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene who, this week, declared that individuals who work for the federal authorities don’t need to be paid in any respect as a result of they don’t carry out any significant work (inform that to a park ranger, an infectious illness researcher, the blokes guarding the nation’s nuclear amenities, the air site visitors controllers who be sure that your airplane doesn’t crash or the mail service who involves your door each weekday).
The distinction between Musk and Greene is solely a matter of diploma. Musk, with the enthusiastic backing of the president (who additionally seems clueless in regards to the essential capabilities of the federal government he runs) is performing as recklessly as a teenage boy with no driver’s license careening off on a pleasure experience in daddy’s fancy automotive. We are able to solely hope that, because the harm piles up, somebody can have the good sense to remove his keys.
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