Parks chief defends handling of budget cuts as Republicans question impact of reductions
Source: AP via Washington Post
Facing withering criticism from House Republicans, the director of the National Park Service Tuesday rejected suggestions the agency purposely hyped the negative impact of mandatory spending reductions for political gain.
Automatic cuts to the agency, said Park Service chief Jon Jarvis, are “painful by definition. We have worked to try and minimize that pain, but I will tell you that that we have not instructed anyone to intentionally make this painful to the public.”
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Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., questioned whether the Park Service was using the “Washington Monument syndrome”--the public relations technique of highlighting visible and popular places and services that are about to closed or scaled back. Meadows said that permanent signs have gone up at a park in his district that say operations are closing due to the budget cuts.
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But Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said Jarvis has fed fears that parks won’t be able to provide basic services. “No one disputes that sequester cuts are real,” Issa said. “The questions and concerns are about whether or not (the Obama) administration is doing everything it can to minimize the impact of the sequester.”
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Adding insult to injury. Picking on the Park Services guy?! Really? Ick. 
They don't give rat's ass about anything but keeping their theft of the public property under wraps. The only reason they'd wail is the public might see the crumbling facade they use to hide the crimes they're doing. Here's for you, repuke crooks:
