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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
But in other situations, the government is allocating more resources to keeping people out of the parks, than it would spend if the parks were open normally. And in the case of the Grand Canyon, the state of Arizona offered to pick up the federal tab to keep the park open during the shutdown. The feds said no thanks.
The only conceivable reason? Obama wants to make this as painful as possible, to generate anger against the GOP. How's that for a guy who claimed to be a post-partisan President.
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The other conceivable reason is that it would likely be a violation of federal law.
I'm not sure just because parks are owned by the Government means the taxpayer can access at any time. Parks have rules...
-spence