Now Trump and the Republicans have decided to kick Grandma out of nursing home to pay for tax cuts for the billionaire oligarchs.
Maybe they had to clear the parks of rangers so they could push grandma off the cliff.
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Now Trump and the Republicans have decided to kick Grandma out of nursing home to pay for tax cuts for the billionaire oligarchs.
Maybe they had to clear the parks of rangers so they could push grandma off the cliff.
Workers raising a flag. That's Tom's other big deficit inducing line item.
FYI - that cost a lot less money than taking Trump to the Super Bowl....but that really doesnt show up in the pie chart either. Thats why I dont cry about it. Maybe Tom can chuck the numbers on that one.
Now Trump and the Republicans have decided to kick Grandma out of nursing home to pay for tax cuts for the billionaire oligarchs.
What?
that cost a lot less money than taking Trump to the Super Bowl
Who paid for Jill's trip to the game? She does get secret service protection
A single trip to see his constituents is of more value and costs a lot less than sleepy joe's weekly trips to take naps at the beach.
Thats huge ! Secret Service protection for former presidents makes Tom's list too ! And the raised flag at the parks.
At this rate we'll identify .000001% of the budget defict by the end of the week. And then we can pass that trillion dollar tax cut for Trump's trustfund brat kids.
What else can Tom find? Maybe the Pentagon is using Charmin instead of generic toilet paper. Thats gotta be something worth looking into.
It's in the House budget. It contains almost 900 billion in Medicaid cuts. 25% of Americans are on Medicaid. Medicaid is what pays for the nursing home for those without long-term care insurance. A lot of middle class families are going to find out grandma is going to be moving in with them and they are going to be providing her 24-7 care.
Originally posted by: tom
YOU haven't heard of that park.
With only 63,000 annual attendance not many others have either.
It didn't cost anything to hoist that flag
The US govt pay those rangers a salary & they took that money they earned for the couple of days they played around; a waste of money.
you wont see this action put the slightest dent into our deficit.
A million here, a million there and eventually you are talking real money. After just over a month over $65B is already saved.
DOGE’s total estimated savings are $65 billion, which is a combination of fraud detection/deletion, contract/lease cancellations, contract/lease renegotiations, asset sales, grant cancellations, workforce reductions, programmatic changes, and regulatory savings,
Estimated by whom, stupid Tom? ELON???
God, you're an idiot. You slurp down whatever they feed you. 65 billion, my ass.
Originally posted by: tom
Now Trump and the Republicans have decided to kick Grandma out of nursing home to pay for tax cuts for the billionaire oligarchs.
What?
that cost a lot less money than taking Trump to the Super Bowl
Who paid for Jill's trip to the game? She does get secret service protection
A single trip to see his constituents is of more value and costs a lot less than sleepy joe's weekly trips to take naps at the beach.
Does anyone have any idea what "thinking" processes go through stupid Tom's head? He's starting to babble in every post he makes.
Originally posted by: tom
But Parks employees found the time to haul a flag to the top of the mountain. How many thousands were wasted on this?
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Florissant, Colorado, announced it would be forced to cut hours.
So some hours were cut at a park nobody has ever heard of. In 2023 63,000 people visited the park or 172 people a day. The country will survive.
What were the staffing levels at that park? Did the rangers also cover other areas in that part of Colorado?
BTW, your links never go anywhere except back to the sink thread you're commenting on.
Originally posted by: MaxFlavor
What were the staffing levels at that park? Did the rangers also cover other areas in that part of Colorado?
BTW, your links never go anywhere except back to the sink thread you're commenting on.
What stupid Tom may be so dim as to not realize is that park rangers almost always serve at several different parks during their careers, and the larger and busier parks are staffed primarily from the smaller and quieter parks. As in, they don't just toss you into Yellowstone straight out of college :)
Soooo....cutting staffing at Florissant Fossil Beds means there will be fewer seasoned rangers to assume positions at Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone, Glacier, etc. There will be staffing shortages, area closures, campgrounds that can't be opened, and tens of thousands of visitors turned away.
Stupid Tom doesn't fathom that the National Park Service is those rangers' employer, NOT the particular national park where they happen to be working at any given time. So, cutting staffing at any park is cutting staffing at all of them.
Stupid, stupid Tom.
Oh and Max, yes, to answer your question, there are rotational rangers (sounds like a bad Saturday morning cartoon series) who work at two or even three parks in the same region, if they're reasonably close to one another and their visitation patterns differ. I knew a couple of rangers who, for several years, worked Arches, Canyonlands, and Dinosaur in rotation--in a given month, they'd work several days each at all three.
The bottom line is: fiscally it doesnt do anything.
to date the only thing DOGE has accomplished is killing Elon's regulators and enemies in the government....along with a bunch of essential workers who will be missed. The net savings on our deficit is a rounding error.
THe parks cuts is just the latest example.
