Texas Parks & Wildlife Agency Faces Big Cuts

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THANKS RICK PERRY, WE ALL LOVE YOU!!!!!!!! :evilfrown:


The bird’s eye-view from Scenic Mountain draws many visitors to Big Spring State Park in West Texas





State parks. Hunter education. Even a magazine targeted at outdoorsmen. Each is likely to feel the effect of a looming 21 to 25 percent budget cut for the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.

The most obvious of the reductions, which could amount to as much as $162 million over the biennium, will cut into the operations of state parks. Both the initial House and Senate budget proposals call for the agency to cease operating seven state parks scattered across the state — from Lockhart State Park to Big Spring State Park in Howard County to the Wyler Aerial Tramway in El Paso. The moves would yield $2.7 million in savings, with potentially 60 full-time positions cut.



http://www.texastribune.org/texas-environmental-news/environmental-problems-and-policies/texas-parks--wildlife-agency-faces-big-cuts/

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1. Privatize - I mean sell them to rich cronies

You see this coming don't you? What a perfect excuse to sell public land on the cheap to his donors.

You just wait for it. :mad:

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3. Great minds...

But I'd rather we be wrong.

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2. I went to High School there

And that view is not as majestic as they make it seem in that picture :P


Of course they're going to cut their funding! Shared sacrifice means exactly that. You bottom 90% share the pain and sacrifice, while we protect the interests of the top 10% and make cuts that are insignificant to the deficit. Maybe they'll have some corporation take them over...


That actually doesn't sound like such a far fetched idea (Guess who promoted that idea?)

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4. "bottom 90% share the pain and sacrifice"

When are we 90 percenters going to revolt against the tyrannical rule of the top 10 percent who continue to oppress us?

What will it take really? I'm mad as hell and I don't want to take this anymore! :mad:

Holy crap! The Rs have been planing this for a long time! Your link about who promoted the idea most recently (G.W.) :puke:

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5. Great article

Great article Thanks,

U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas summed it up very well in his classic Farewell to Texas. He said of the modern Ahabs of Texas "They see a tree and think in terms of board feet. They see a cliff and think in terms of gravel. They see a river and think in terms of dams. . . They see a mountain and think in terms of minerals, roads, and excavations. They think of parks in terms of private enterprise-money making schemes-not nature trails, but amusement centers."

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6. Blinders

They do not see except with tunnel vision focused solely on money. :(

William O. Douglas - :thumbsup:

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7. Naomi Klein looks damn prophetic now

We were not just shocked. We were shell shocked by the Republicans in Texas. All these policies they knew were a tough sell will have no resistance.

Will this state ever recover from their one party rule?

I don't think a Hispanic majority will fix it, since they've got a plan in place to indoctrinate the youth. And most importantly...thanks to Jan Brewer, I'm sure they'll have some remedy to prevent a majority from ever happening.