Fifty shades of Big Government
Today’s installment of Shutdown Theater includes the Obama Administration trying to rope off the ocean, as
charter fishing boat captains and tour guides were informed by the
National Park Service shock troops of His Imperial Barricading Majesty
that Florida Bay is closed for the duration of the current “budget
crisis.” (Disclaimer: no actual “budget,” or anything remotely resembling one, will be involved in its resolution.)
Given
that we’re talking about over a thousand square miles of prime fishing
ground, this sounds like one of those shutdown situations where it might
require more manpower and money to close the area than it would to keep
it open. The
World War II memorial in Washington, DC stands as the most visible
symbol of this vindictive lunacy, an open-air monument that isn’t
normally attended by rangers 24 hours a day when it’s open, but requires
squadrons of guards and tons of barricades (now wired shut to hold the
heroes of Normandy and Iwo Jima at bay) to keep it closed. Quite a few
of these Shutdown Theater productions are occurring on sites owned
largely by state governments, or funded with private money.
One
National Park Service employee who didn’t like getting drafted into the
Shutdown Shock Brigade complained, “We’ve been told to make life as
difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.” That’s explosive
talk, and you’d think the media would be keenly interested, but they’re
still busy chasing the kid White House aides pointed out to them as a
glowing success story of the ObamaCare launch, even though it turns out
he didn’t actually buy any ObamaCare.
Who’s got time to listen to a park ranger talk about how he was
specifically ordered to make the American people suffer until Obama’s
demands are met?
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