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Thousands of government and seasonal park jobs at risk if sequester proceeds

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From the DOT to DOI, there’s too many jobs and department operations at risk for the sequester to go through in the full and stick.

-Samantha Shankman

by Matthew Daly, Associated Press
Feb 26, 2013 10:51 am

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says thousands of Interior Department workers would be furloughed, and thousands more seasonal workers would not be hired under automatic spending cuts set to take effect Friday.

Visiting hours at all 398 national parks are likely to be cut and sensitive areas would be blocked off to the public under what Salazar termed “draconian” cuts required by a budget-cutting law. Salazar said the park service’s $112 million in cuts are especially grim, since they hit as parks are preparing for an influx of spring and summer visitors.

Salazar and National Park Service director Jon Jarvis said visitors will encounter fewer rangers, locked restrooms and see trashcans emptied less often if Congress does not reach a deal to avoid 5 percent across-the-board cuts.

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  • rtc_amesbury

    The sky is falling …… the sky is falling.

    Finally! We all get to see that the emperor has no clothes!

  • antiliberalcryptonite
  • adakquack

    Dis jackwagon really believes his little song .
    heard it all before chump ..
    shut em down …. Ha – Me – Go !

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  • http://twitter.com/GarrySills garry sills

    Just shut down the Federal Government for a week! It would be a much better place. Stop paying the Federal workers until a balanced budget is passed. No budget no pay. They can’t keep spending money they don’t have!

  • Lydk

    So we’ve gone from complete meltdown, to military/police/fire/teachers losing their jobs, to we might have to cut back on parks? Wowzers…how will we go on?

    Notice how it’s never office staff, public information employees, the print shop, janitors, etc? It’s always whatever they can work up the most hysteria over. That failed and now the truth is coming out. All the hysteria and when it’s all said and done, we wont even notice…other than OMG!! The parks (which are mostly consigned to foreign countries) might have cut backs. Incredible. Thanks for the laugh.

  • Dencal26

    More OBAMA lies

  • soil_and_dirt

    Well, we could sell the Parks to pay the debts??? Just saying…

  • Destroy All Morons!

    complete assholes all….please bird flu, please! mutate into an airborne vector with a 50% mortality rate, and hurry! there’s just too many douches in the world for one man to exterminate :-) of course, the douches would probably end up being the survivors :-(

  • karlstro2u

    Liar liar pants on fire! Don’t believe. Don’t believe. How about cutting the President’s salary along with the Congress and all of the CZARS!!!

  • brodave

    Obama and his Government lie!

  • woodenboatguy275

    complete lie… it is time to take a stand and call their bluff. It is time to stand and tell this administration to “go pound sand”…. This administration rules by crisis, creating them where NONE exist. Obama is “chicken little” running around exaggerating the current situation to scare the crap out of people who do not concern themselves with the truth…..

    We have an administration that is setting this country on fire at every turn to garner themselves more and more power.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/DDSB5EDCLEGSET2K4BES6EPTRU RichH

    Release the prisoners, close the parks, yank the wheelchair from under grandma. Meanwhile, we give 60 million to Syrian rebels, and the Obama’s are planning their next $20 million vacation.

  • http://www.facebook.com/vince.cartledge Vince Cartledge

    The “peoples parks” are always the first thing to close.I guess they are really the government’s parks.

  • Shears_of_Atropos

    The Parks are going to be closed?? OMG! We’re all gonna’ die!!! Please save us, Barry, from this Hell…..

  • Grace Jones

    Can we please start electing people who have not been and will not be corrupted by power and greed?

  • garetired

    good. give the animals a break.

  • Shears_of_Atropos

    May I suggest that we simply revoke Menendez’ ability to travel internationally? And re-audit his reported expenses? That would be a step in the right direction, I think.

  • American

    i have a crazy idea.. how about cut services that should be cut rather than services that are actually a benefit to society…. lets start by cutting all benefits to illegals and then move to other entitlement programs.. that actually have a detrimental impact to society.

  • Shears_of_Atropos

    Confusion breeds opportunity… When the sheep are scattered, the wolf makes his kill.

  • SLJones

    If it is beneath Nancy Pelosi’s dignity to take a pay cut, it is certainly beneath my dignity to lose more of my hard-earned money to a bloated, inefficient government.

  • Brock

    Lies, lies, and more Lies…..

  • caiusKeys

    It’s not just parks and aircraft carriers and teachers and emergency rooms, but there will be no water, no oxygen — friends won’t be able to come in from out of town… PLEASE DON’T CUT OFF THE MONEY!!! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Pope1944

    Keep in mind, in the midst of all the weeping and wailing, that $85 Billion represents 3% of the budget. Yes, the federal government is going to end because of 3% in cuts. And millions of jobs are going to lost. Airports are closing, yada, yada, yada. What a load of BS.

  • tucker529

    Do you suppose the Obama’s will limit their vacations because of the sequester? Yeah, right.

  • benth163

    Who’s saying all that Sh*t. That sequester doesn’t amount to a hill of beans and Odumba is throwing out hysterical BS to scare people into writing their congressional representatives to back what ever that Bstrd wants. He thinks he is the “Don”. Well I’ve got news for that SOB, he isn’t.
    Our nation could not pay its debt even if it stole all the monies earned by all the working people in our country. And, then add to that the Trillion and more, they want to keep spending year after year, and you’ll find we are literally enslaved to support a government gone mad. You cannot have half the people supporting the other half against their will. When the slaves wake up, they’ll find themselves in the unenviable position of being in front of a firing squad !

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Barba/630946350 John Barba

    Wolf wolf

  • JoeDay1

    THE SKY IS FALLING!!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Barba/630946350 John Barba

    The Old Chicago line – “hey nice-a business ya got here, shame if it a caught on a fire”
    Obama line – first responders wont be available

  • Jim

    So sick of all the silly things they are throwing out there that will be shut down. The government is too big shut it all down as far as I am concerned and give us the citizen tax payers our money back. I am not satisfied with the service they provide us. Oh I forgot in their minds they don’t serve us we serve them the ruling elite.

  • lugnut4

    WAAAAAAAAAA!

  • Silver Surfer Dude

    Why hasn’t Barry tried to scare everybody with IRS layoffs?

  • cgent47

    Quote of the decade.
    “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
    Senator Obama March 16, 2006

  • 96leroy

    Exactly. A bunch of chicken little liberals. Remember “people will be dying in the streets” when welfare reform was being discussed (94-95)? And how that didn’t happen at all?

  • JackG

    The real risk of the sequester proceeding is by far the impact on the entitlement programs. Growing these programs to unsustainable levels is one of the biggest mistakes that this administration has made.

  • MissyT111

    You find themm and I’ll vote for ‘em :)

  • off_leash

    If AFSCME didn’t make big contributions to the Democrats, cuts would be a lot easier to find.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jim.pitzer.3 Jim Pitzer

    Actually, since they were going to have a 6% increase, they will now only have a 3% increase. That’s right, the federal government will spend 3% more next year than this year and that is considered a cut. Only in a warped liberal’s mind is this reality.

  • Shears_of_Atropos

    You have it nailed, my friend. Thank you for your post.

  • http://www.facebook.com/gary.fields.395 Gary Fields

    Does that 5 percent across the board cut apply to food stamp and welfare benefits?

  • http://www.facebook.com/gary.fields.395 Gary Fields

    Budget? What’s a budget?

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