There’s nothing efficient about shutting down U.S. National Parks when they collectively bring in over $55B a year yet cost over $3.5B a year to upkeep. This is the kind of stupid bullshit what you do when you deliberately want to crash the economy.The eternal verities of a government shutdown are:
A) the party in power is responsible for it.
B) Social Security/Medicare personnel are ALWAYS exempt so that those services are not affected (the funds aren’t subject to the budget, but the employees are). Nobody in D.C. wants people to notice SS/Medicare are unavailable. What’s the point of a shutdown if people notice?
C) But the first thing people ALWAYS notice is the parks are closed. Not just Yosemite or the Grand Canyon, but monuments in D.C. that the tourists came to see (better visuals, too. Monuments get roped off. Park access is just closed.) The justification for a shutdown usually starts running into reality at about that point.
Trump wants to skip the temporary shutdown and go straight to the permanent one. He thinks this is a good idea. It’s like he’s never learned a thing about government.
It’s going to be a bloodbath.
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