We should be infuriated that we have allowed government to touch so much of our lives.

My wife works in real estate. Due to the shutdown they can’t close home sales because of the required IRS confirmation of income before closing. This one little detail, which is a duplication of effort done early in when you qualify, is stopping people from buying or selling. It just bugs the shit out of me that something this minor is causing so much pain, people are losing homes, money, and valuable time. How many other “small” functions does the government pay a federal employee to do that should be handled in the private sector, or at least the state level.

The question I can’t answer is why? Why do we let the government be that intrusive in everyday dealings. Why can’t we turn it over to private companies, much like your credit bureaus, they have all of your information. Why can’t you have a private company handle these miniscule items? The shutdown proves that government is to damn big touching to many items that could be handled other ways.

In southern Utah they have shut down Zions National Park. The city of Springdale survives on tourist money, they are losing a large portion of their annual income due to the shutdown. I don’t give a rats ass at this point who is to blame for the shutdown, the bigger picture should be for the states to take back their lands. Don’t let the feds get their grimy greedy hands in anything. The states should handle all of their own parks period. Anytime a state gives up land, they give up rights to it, and at the whim of an oppressive regime, they can punish people with a mere memo to the National Park Service.

That my friends is bullshit!! 

As we have seen with these park closures and many other obstacles that the Obama regime has handed down due the the shutdown, it is abundantly clear that Washington DC has a firm grasp on everything in peoples lives and can dictate to the population when, where, what, and why at their pleasure. They just proved it. The revolution can’t start soon enough.

This has gotten completely out of hand. US citizens being kicked out of their homes, veterans being arrested for visiting an “open air” memorial, closures of Mt. Rushmore, parks and trails, Yellowstone tourists treated like criminals, Inns that are run privately and actually pay the government to be there, much like the lease payments made by the home owners of Lake Mead. 

Then Obama opens up the National Mall and provides port-a-potties for illegal immigrants for a demonstration. Are you fucking kidding me?

A planned immigration reform rally will take place on the National Mall on Tuesday even though the site is closed due to the government shutdown.

Organizers for the “Camino Americano: March for Immigration Reform” were spotted Monday setting up a stage and equipment on the National Mall for the rally which will take place on Tuesday.

A few scattered barriers around the park have signs informing visitors that the area is closed as a result of the government shutdown.

Susana Flores, a spokesperson for the rally, confirmed for the Washington Examiner that the Park Service will allow the event to take place under the group’s rights granted by the First Amendment

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I can’t even attempt to explain my outrage. Who do these people think they are? How are they getting away with this? This is a dictator and his regime using the power vested in them by the taxpayer to inflict as much visible pain as possible on the very people who pay for their mere existence. And in the meantime, continue to pander to a base that elected them.
Petty thug tactics used by a very small man.

This is not a President leading, this is a coward using others to do his dirty work in the name of the US Government, only a small minded individual(‘s) would stoop so low.

 

Obama will never leave office to avoid impeachment like Nixon did, he needs to be physically removed. All of you military folks out there consider this, if he did this to your veterans, he would do it to you.

 

 

I have seen this before and I still get a kick out of it. Thought I would share.

Sorry, we could have saved the country a lot of money and the families of the victims a lot of heart ache. He admitted he did it, there were witnesses that saw him do it, and it was an act of terrorism. Out back, one bullet, done….boom just saved the country $4,699,998. Any questions?

Army records obtained by NBC 5 Investigates details how the U.S. government spent nearly $5 million to convict Nidal Hasan in the Fort Hood massacre — crimes for which he wanted to plead guilty.

After several months of filing requests, NBC 5 Investigates received the first detailed accounting of the costs related to the court martial and trial for the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 and injuring 32 in a mass shooting in 2009. The total bill to U.S. taxpayers was more than $4.7 million.

Hasan, who called no witnesses in his defense and asked only a few questions during the trial, wanted to plead guilty to the charges against him but was forbidden to do so by military law, so a trial had to be held.

 

Read the story here

This concerns me terribly. So if POTUS instructs park rangers to do his bidding, and they do it, what happens if he instructs the military to do the same thing? Only this time it is to suppress a revolution? If I was a park ranger, I would refuse, then get on a soap box and let the American public know whats really happening.

1. Treatments for Children Suffering From Cancer – The GOP have agreed to a compromise by funding part of the government, including the National Institutes of Health, which offers children with cancer last-chance experimental treatment. Obama has threatened to veto this funding.

2. The World War II Memorial – The WWII memorial on the DC Mall is a 24/7 open-air memorial that is not regularly staffed. Although the White House must have known that WWII veterans in their eighties and nineties had already booked flights to visit this memorial, the White House still found the resources to spitefully barricade the attraction.

The Republican National Committee has offered to cover any costs required to keep the memorial open. The White House refused. Moreover, like the NIH, the GOP will pass a compromise bill that would fund America’s national parks. Obama has threatened to veto that bill.

3. Furloughed Military Chaplains Not Allowed to Work for Free – Furloughed military chaplains willing to celebrate Mass and baptisms for free have been told they will be punished for doing so.

4. Business Stops In Florida Keys – Although the GOP have agreed to compromise in the ongoing budget stalemate and fund the parks, Obama has threatened to veto that funding. As a result, small businesses, hunters, and commercial fisherman can’t practice their trade. While the feds have deemed the personnel necessary to keep this area open “non-essential,” the “enforcement officers” to ensure no business is done are “essential.”

5. Obama Blacks Out Sports, Entertainment Programming to Overseas Troops – The American Forces Network (AFN) that provides American sports and entertainment programming to our troops stationed abroad, has been shut down. For some reason, though, AFN News will still broadcast news, just not any of the popular and fun stuff.

Camp David is essential, but popular programming for heroes overseas is non-essential.

6. Obama Closes D-Day Memorial – The GOP have offered to compromise and fund the National Parks. Obama has said he will veto this compromise legislation. As a result, along with 24 other military cemeteries, the D-Day memorial in Normandy has been barricaded.

7. Obama Tries to Close Privately-Funded Mt. Vernon – Although George Washington’s Mt. Vernon estate is privately funded, the feds blocked visitors from entering the parking area because the Park Service maintains the lot. Apparently, the New Media publicity resulted in the feds backing down.

8. Obama Closes Over 100 Privately-Managed Parks That Cost No Money to Run –  The U.S. Treasury actually makes money from the rent paid by a private company that “employs about 400-500 camp workers and managers across about a dozen states.” No federal money is used to operate these parks. No federal employees are used to staff these parks. Taxpayers make a profit from these parks. Still, Obama had them closed and as a result 400-500 employees and a private business are taking it in the neck.

9. Obama Closes Self-Sustaining Colonial Farm It Hasn’t Supported Since 1980 – “For the first time in 40 years, the National Park Service (NPS) has finally succeeded in closing the Farm down to the public. In previous budget dramas, the Farm has always been exempted since the NPS provides no staff or resources to operate the Farm.”

10. Obama Tries to Close State-Run Parks in Wisconsin – “The park service ordered state officials to close the northern unit of the Kettle Moraine, Devil’s Lake, and Interstate state parks and the state-owned portion of the Horicon Marsh, but state authorities rebuffed the request because the lion’s share of the funding came from state, not federal coffers.”

11. Obama Closes Vietnam Memorial – The GOP have passed compromise legislation that would fund national memorials and parks, and open them to the public. Obama threatened a veto. Apparently, the “essential” government employees are those erecting barricades, not those who could keep the memorial open.

12. Obama Closes Privately-Owned Hotel, Police Block Parking Lot – “The operator of a 51-room inn located on U.S. government-owned land in North Carolina abandoned his defiant stance on Thursday to keep the property open despite being ordered to close as part of the federal government shutdown.”

October is this inn’s prime season. The GOP have offered compromise funding opening the parks. Obama said he will veto that compromise.

State troopers blocked customers from entering the inn’s parking lot.

13. Park Service Ranger: ‘We’ve Been Told to Make Life As Difficult For People As We Can’ – “It’s a cheap way to deal with the situation,” an angry Park Service ranger in Washington says of the harassment.