Senator targets 2 Michigan parks

[safeinOhio]

Source: Detroit Free Press



A U.S. senator from Oklahoma, railing at what he considers misplaced priorities and self-serving parochialism in the operation of the National Park Service, zeroed in on two Michigan landmarks as being among the 'more egregious, wasteful or otherwise questionable expenses' to be found across the U.S.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20131030/NEWS06/310300024/Senator-targets-2-Michigan-parks-among-most-wasteful-U-S-expenses

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The best part is the comments section.

[hobbit709]

1. Fuck Coburn and the horse he rode in on

Useless oxygen stealing waste of skin.

[pikkel]

17. Republicans would sell off . . .

. . . these parks to their cronies. Isle Royal is beautiful and then ALL THAT COPPER!!!! Makes the Kochs salivate just thinking about it.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Coburn is retiring in 2016, so he is going kamikaze. nt

[hatrack]

14. And Inhofe is nearly 80, so there's more good news

Of course, when both of them are gone, the question arises: what fresh hell of crazy will Oklahoma voters crap into the Senate?

[Kber]

3. Thanks for your opinion, senator

but I think what you are really saying is that unmined or undeveloped land is a wasted opportunity to make a profit. If these lands weren't protected, they would be destroyed.

Which was the entire point of the national park system in the first place.

Which, in turn, is your real target, so why play coy?

It's like you think being honest about your agenda might backfire or something.

[AAO]

4. I bet I could find a couple of National Parks in OK to get rid of.

[safeinOhio]

6. I'd bet I could find some

OK, millionaire farmers that haven't sat on a tractor in years, getting big, wasteful checks from the feds too.

Um, how many visitors/year do they get?

[hatrack]

7. Except there aren't any in the whole damned state

One National Recreation Area and one National Historic Site (Washita Battlefield).

[yesphan]

9. Also,

a National Memorial, but no National Parks.

[bigbrother05]

12. National Wildlife Refuge and Wilderness area

Lots of CCC era construction created a place to protect bison, elk, and longhorn cattle herds as well as smaller critters such as prairie dogs.

[yesphan]

8. Actually,

no you couldn't. There aren't any.

[AAO]

10. Then let's trash Coburns house. We need to do something!

[kentauros]

5. Let's attack Coburn's perks, then.

We can claim it was a typo after the fact when he objects

[Demeter]

11. DUZY this thread

[mountain grammy]

13. Same old shit from Coburn. Dispicable man..

waste can always be found and dealt with and public access to these areas should be better, but Coburn never argues for improvements, because he's lazy and ignorant like nearly every single Republican in America.

[Festivito]

15. Should be a joint effort due to our governments' instabilities.

I consider misplaced priorities and self-serving parochialism in the operation of the 24-BILLION DOLLAR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN THAT CREATES PROBLEMS FOR MORE THAN two Michigan landmarks as being among the 'more egregious, wasteful or otherwise questionable expenses' to be found across the U.S.

These should be joint efforts. If one government entity becomes unstable the agreement should allow another one to take over.

[JNelson6563]

16. Yeah, screw you Oklahoma.

I was just thinking that about your shithole of a state.


julie

[cynatnite]

20. Every state with a repuke douche senator is a shithole!

That's what you meant, right?

[Tx4obama]

18. Kick n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

19. I'm not surprised to see that he's railing against ALL of Alaska's parks

since the majority of them are virtually inaccessible (which is what I love about them...they're real wilderness). He's probably in cahoots with our idiot governor who would like to take back all the federal land, dig it up and sell the resources to China.

[struggle4progress]

21. Maybe it's just me, but there sure does seem to be lots of ugly noise coming from Congress

[Scout]

22. when we were on isle royale...

we were told that the island had maybe the fewest visitors annually of a park its size, but that it had the most RETURN visitors of any of the national parks.

we've been to Isle Royale two separate visits, and we loved it. I would go every year if I could afford it.