Summary
The Trump administration’s recent mass layoffs of national park and forest staff have sparked outrage as services deteriorate and safety concerns grow.
Around 1,000 National Park Service employees (5%) and 3,400 Forest Service workers (10%) were terminated on February 14, causing long entrance lines, trail closures, and reduced visitor services.
Former employees like wilderness ranger Kate White worry about visitor safety and ecological damage at popular destinations.
Conservation work for endangered species has halted, and wildfire response capabilities are threatened. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum defended the cuts as deficit reduction, while critics call for policy reversal.
All these fuckers talk about is deficit reduction. We gotta cut social services and stuff people rely on to save money cuz the deficit. But they aren’t trying to save money. They’re trying to give themselves the biggest tax break imaginable and add to the deficit. They just want us to pay for it.
It’s the biggest fucking scam in the world And your representatives are lying to you so they can get rich.
Representatives aren’t representing you. They represent their rich donors and themselves.
All Billionaires are bankrolled by taxpayer subsidiaries.
Capitalism is Communism for the rich.
Why do you need staff to maintain and preserve the National Parks when you’re just gonna sell them all off to buy a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve?
parks are getting setup to be stripped mined of resources and the areas polluted by the efforts
was happening under the Democrats watch too just with more finesse but since both parties are paid from the same checkbook we as citizens are just forced to watch the strip mining of our country with no way out
Overall, the Biden administration has conserved 674 million acres of U.S. lands and waters. These protections include 15 new, expanded, and restored national monuments, adding up to nearly 9 million acres.
Asked this in another thread, but is there a count of the number of people fired/resigned/quit/laid off from government positions and entities?
Ironic that Joe Rogan hosts a monthly ‘Protect our Parks and Wildlife’ pod, then considerably helps to get Trump elected, who then makes moves to fuck up parks and wildlife.
Conservatives not liking conservation.
