Every 4th Grader in America to Get a One-Year Pass to Every National Park for them & their Family!

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33. You have very creative references to the Repugs. Most amusing. But seriously, the Gop is

well known for not liking people much of late. During the federal govt. shutdown one old Repug congressman aggressively hassled National Park Service rangers on the national Mall because of closed gates to memorials that wheelchair visitors were unable to visit even though that's what his party caused. Same for Congress. hearings with Rep. Darryl Issa, neo-McCarthyite hassling park staff about why? Re closed centers in Yorktown and Jamestown, VA that they had ordered.

The National Park Service staff are some of the hardest working and most educated people I've ever known in the history field. And they endure years, even decades of the threat of more budget cuts at the Dept. of the Interior since Reagan. A National Archives colleague in the '90s cautioned tourists not to let their kids play in the sculpture fountains. The homeless sometimes used them as urinals after Reagan eliminated massive funding for public mental hospitals with plans of community based centers with counselors which never happened.