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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKoch-backed group calls for end of national parks
Sadly, not The Onion.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/06/1399603/-Koch-backed-group-calls-for-end-of-national-parks#
The National Park system is broke, argues Reed Watson, the executive director at the Koch-backed Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) in an op-ed, so the only thing to do about it is stop creating national parks. Because, of course, actually funding them is out of the question....
Of course "hoping it manages itself" was never the aim of Congress in creating national parks, which is why they also created the National Park Service to manage them. The fact that the Service is horribly underfunded and has a huge backlog of projects is because a Republican-dominated Congress has starved it. That's part of the whole destroying government in order to prove that government doesn't work agenda. But in terms of the parks, it's part of the Kochs' real agenda:
While the authors seem to push for "true conservation" from the federal government, in reality, PERC has a long history of advocating for the privatization of America's national parks and other public lands, and has significant ties to the Koch brothers and fossil fuel industries....
It just kills the industry and its allies that there's any scrap of land that they can't get their hands, or more precisely their drilling rigs, on. National heritage, and clean air and water, be damned. This isn't about taking care of the parks that we do have. It's about stealing them.
Of course "hoping it manages itself" was never the aim of Congress in creating national parks, which is why they also created the National Park Service to manage them. The fact that the Service is horribly underfunded and has a huge backlog of projects is because a Republican-dominated Congress has starved it. That's part of the whole destroying government in order to prove that government doesn't work agenda. But in terms of the parks, it's part of the Kochs' real agenda:
While the authors seem to push for "true conservation" from the federal government, in reality, PERC has a long history of advocating for the privatization of America's national parks and other public lands, and has significant ties to the Koch brothers and fossil fuel industries....
It just kills the industry and its allies that there's any scrap of land that they can't get their hands, or more precisely their drilling rigs, on. National heritage, and clean air and water, be damned. This isn't about taking care of the parks that we do have. It's about stealing them.
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Koch-backed group calls for end of national parks (Original Post)
KamaAina
Jul 2015
OP
So when I said ownership of LAND by ANYONE other than the people is stupid, did you folks
randys1
Jul 2015
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randys1
(16,286 posts)1. So when I said ownership of LAND by ANYONE other than the people is stupid, did you folks
think I was crazy?
Remember one of the examples I used:
"So the Koch Bros buy Waikiki Beach or Yellowstone Natl Park, keep them in their family forever, and you and I NEVER step foot on either"
You see this is why allowing individual human beings to OWN land, is insane
Rex
(65,616 posts)2. The Kochroach Brothers strike again. Nothing is too far out of reach or off the table.
All about making money at the expense of others. The Koch way.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)3. These fuckers want it all. There is no end to their greed!
olddots
(10,237 posts)4. how long will people be ignorant about thier motives ?
Dumbth and greed rule .
City Lights
(25,171 posts)5. They are a national disgrace.
Fuck the Kochs.