Now, George, I am feeling really sad :-((.
Chris
> Chris;
>
> Chris Barker wrote:
>>
>> Charles
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that it is inaccurate to refer to the National Parks Service
as
>> part of the Government (although I confess I am not well up on the way it is
>> connected).
>
> The NPS in US is part of the Department of the Interior. Most definitely
> a government organization whose officials are subject to the political
> winds and whims of the moment. I'll refrain from describing which way
> those winds are blowing right now in the land of the free and the home
> of the Liar.
>
> SNIP
>> but I wonder if the National Parks Service would be the same, or
>> merely a well-meaning but generally inefficient organisation whose mission
has
>> been lost or outdated: it no longer understands its customers. Does this
fit?
>
> Maybe, altho well-meaning depends on which side you're on. Although the
> DOI understands plenty well it's corporate customers - the logging and
> timber industries. Yes, our keepers of the natural resources who don't
> want me driving my car into Yosemite are the very same who build roads
> for logging trucks not more than 5 miles from the park entrance. Then
> they allow the timber companies to strip these forests for .. are u
> ready for this ... $1.00 per tree. And that's AFTER the taxpayer has
> paid for the road. They're selling practically the entire Tsongas
> National Forest in Alaska to the Japanese for, again, $1.00 per tree.
>
> How's that for a bunch of brilliant government protectors of my land?
> And they worry about me and my car.
>
> Oh if only those who scream at me because I want to have the simple
> freedom of driving my own car would turn their attention to something
> like this that REALLY matters.
>
> BTW, I responded off-list to the person who called me an environmental
> bigot amoung other things earlier today. He told me in so many words in
> our exchange that he would restrict where I could drive my car if he had
> the power to do so. And implied he'd like to also decide what kind of
> car I could drive. I pray that people who think this way never gain the
> powers they seek in this country. Last world leader who thought that
> way was one of the designers of the Volkswagon Beetle.
>
> george
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