No, it should not.
And you'll have to pay them WAY MORE than what you're paying rangers now
Scratch Grand Teton off your summer list
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And you'll have to pay them WAY MORE than what you're paying rangers now
And, just like Iowa's "privatized Medicare" providers mess, I can guarantee you it won't.
Iowa is paying WAY more for those services, and the providers withhold the services so they can get their 10-15% profit (which the state run system NEVER had to cover)
And then there wouldn't be overwhelming crowds like we have now. Sounds like a win for the parks, to me.
i definitely want all of the points you made but the national parks i've been to at least have provided terrific experiences at moderate and affordable costs. i would not want to experiment by putting it entirely in hands of the private sector. take a look at the prices and facilities let's say at grand canyon south rim and hypothetically project what we can expect by changing things drastically. disneyworld has its place and i love it but national parks need to be left alone.
Comparing a park to medical care is a laughable comparison.
We're going to have to pay a lot more in taxes if we don't get spending under control.
So, you don't want people to be able to access the parks.
Kind of the opposite of the reason we created them in the first place.
It is really hard to fix stupid. Private industry costs way more, visitors will pay way more, it is a Nat Park or Forest so there should be Fed workers, not someone from Halliburton or some company that is giving kickbacks to the Dumpster
I compared privatization to your claimed privatization, Cletus.
Learn something.
But it's federal spending even if it goes to a private company. (minus what the park brings back in self-supporting revenue)
It's almost like you know nothing about the way National Parks currently operate.
We've already scrapped our trip for the summer. We were planning on going to Glacier but there is just too much money involved and too much uncertainty to if the parks will be open and/or safe to try and pull this off. We will be doing something else.16 of the 17 training supervisors have been fire.
Trump's firing of 1,000 national park workers raises concerns about maintenance and operating hours
The Trump administration has fired about 1,000 newly hired National Park Service employees as part of its broad-based effort to downsize government.apnews.com
You know you will be the first person bitching when it suddenly cost $180 per day to go visit a national park.
You can usually stop there
Basic Park services will be cheaper if we leave it to the Feds. The above poster isn’t wrong. For profit companies aren’t going to do it for less.
Look at how airports are run. Is there a cafeteria run by the airport authority?
No. They don't know anything about serving food.
Instead, they charge an insane amount for rent and private companies fall all over themselves trying to win that coveted space at Gate 77-120....
There are two sides to the "do it for less" analysis. How much does it/will it cost park guests? And how much will it/does it cost the taxpayer?
I would guess that guests will pay more, and the taxpayer will pay less. And I'm greatly in favor of that. Those who use the national parks should foot the majority of the bill.
So stay out of their house. That’s the response from the left whenever there’s a shark attack in the Gulf of America. (God I love typing that. 😂😂😂)
Jesus, how have you survived this long?
It's a mountain. People can explore it whether there's a gift shop or not.
You have no critical thinking skills.
The weird thing about it is…I’m kind of on your side in some ways. One of the worst things about the parks nowadays are the fat, smoker lunged, out of shape, never leave the car pieces of shit clogging things up. While I loathe the loss of NPS staff and what they bring to the public, if it means keeping the undeserving trash out of the park maybe it’s a nice side effect.
Look at how ****ing expensive it is
In my opinion:
We should obviously not be wasteful, but I feel we should be promoting and cherishing our national parks more. If that means MORE park personnel, so be it.
We should obviously not be wasteful, but I feel we should be promoting and cherishing our national parks more. If that means MORE park personnel, so be it.
I’m curious how a person thinks the park itself is going to create enough of a profit to incentivize a private entity to take over.
The parks themselves don’t turn any profit. All the money made is by surrounding communities. Food, lodging, entertainment.
I fear what private companies would have to do to spark to turn a profit directly off of it.
The parks themselves don’t turn any profit. All the money made is by surrounding communities. Food, lodging, entertainment.
I fear what private companies would have to do to spark to turn a profit directly off of it.
Should have been paying more for a long time. Corporations too. Wouldn't have the debt we have.
Just googled “Grand Tetons National Park to close down”. Not coming up with anything other than seasonal closures for certain areas of the park. OP appears to be full of shit.
And you honestly think a contractor will cost less?
Yeah we love the beauty of nature, Clean water running through pristine parks that have been enjoyed by Americans for decades, Then we have Trad “yeah fvck all that”.
Because when you have people working jobs to make sure things run smoothly, things run smoothly. You cut all the staff and suddenly you have planes falling out of the sky on a daily basis.
I went off to dinner, came home and found out Trad has done his usual confident stupidity in my thread.
If he had ever been in a park he would know that the worst services you experience in a park are all the private contractors. Yosemite’s historic Ahwahnee lodge is falling apart under private management. Everything is done on the cheap and costs 3 times too much.
Years back Booz Allen took over the federal camping website. Prices tripled, service stayed the same or worse….and the govt gets NONE of the money collected thru the site.
Last time Trump was in office parks were shut down and the public was left unsupervised. The damages are still being repaired today.
If he had ever been in a park he would know that the worst services you experience in a park are all the private contractors. Yosemite’s historic Ahwahnee lodge is falling apart under private management. Everything is done on the cheap and costs 3 times too much.
Years back Booz Allen took over the federal camping website. Prices tripled, service stayed the same or worse….and the govt gets NONE of the money collected thru the site.
Last time Trump was in office parks were shut down and the public was left unsupervised. The damages are still being repaired today.
