If Republicans want to lose next year’s Congressional elections, there are few ways more effective than to ruin tens of millions of American’s summer vacations at National Parks.
“Overcrowding and piles of rubbish: Elon Musk’s Doge cutbacks plunge America’s parks into crisis
Rangers fear there will be ramifications on protecting nature after 1,000 probationary workers are sacked by the Trump administration”
Elon Musk’s Doge cutbacks plunge America’s parks into crisis
The idea that the next election will turn on the condition of national parks is laughable. The country, by all the opinion polls, wants head counts of government employees to shrink dramatically. It’s inevitable that there will be dislocations as the DOGE process continues. This is not unusual. In my 37 years with Southwestern Bell/ AT&T I saw many downsizing episodes. Sometimes too many were cut and corrections had to be made. It’s never pleasant.
The parks will survive.
I agree. I live near a very large and very famous national park. As was reported in my local newspaper, a few people who worked at the park got laid off. However, from what I’ve experienced the last couple of years, the few people who lost their jobs were mostly worthless do-nothings, who stood around holding rakes and shovels, and often obnoxiously acted as if they were cops. I seriously doubt that the election will hinge on the loss of a thousand probationary national park jobs. And, as far as the NOAA goes, I realize Mr. Heller partially relies on their data, but the NOAA has become a corrupt climate change activist organization. The NOAA should be downsized, in my opinion.
My guess it is deliberate, if you don’t like what the boss is doing, work slowdowns and sick outs is a common ploy.
You are most probably right.
In Theory you can kick out 50% of the laziest government employees in any country and all the work will be done with no problems as no place
is so pareto principal related as government work where 20% of the people do 80 most probably 90 % + of the work.
But specific branches , with a 90% democrat voter base ,will sabotage things on purpose(just dogooders doing good).
And they will throw many wrenches into the gears to show the world how wrong layoffs are and to safe the jobs of their buddies.
Places where working output can be controlled and analyzed and anomalies instantly tracked down will barely suffer from this , but those domains that can not be observed well will suffer from activism.
As long as they do the firing gradually ,slow but steady ,to avoid bottlenecks,there should be barely problems in most domains
Especially in the beginning as things usually need time to pile up – therefore parks on the brink just a few days after DOGE started is a manufactured crisis.
Manufactured by people who went from doing little to do nothing
and superiors who started to use their workforce in the most inefficient way since DOGE started.
+ we need to keep in mind that democrat run cities have 3x more government workers than necessary and their cities look like shit (and ” journalists” like Susie Coen don’t give a crap about heroin needles and fesces everwhere,but DOGE and parks and here she goes) up to their doorsteps.And they still vote democrats.
Why should voters give a crap about how a park looks like they see twice a year.
the photo of the garbage on the ground caught my attention. I live within the city limits and our garbage is picked up once a week but not by any government employees. garbage is contracted to be picked up by a private firm. so my guess is the photo of the garbage all over the ground is propaganda because surely Elon Musk did not terminate the contract with the private garbage collection firm that serves that national Park or any other.