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President Tantrum Shuts Down Parks Feds Don’t Even Fund

Obma Barricdes private parks as show of force
Barry-Cade

This is an excellent example of the hubris of Obama and the Democrat run Federal Government.  These Demo-brats are so mad that they didn’t get their way–that ‘way’ being the unsustainable continued and unobstructed growth and debt accumulation of the Federal government–that they are sending Federal Park Officials to shut down “parks” that are not funded by the Federal government.

These are places that have no reliance on Federal money.  None of their employees work for the Federal Government. Obama might as well have set up Barry-cades around all the Home Depot’s or McDonald’s in the country as an expression of what can happen when his government has a partial shutdown.

I have kids.  They were toddlers for a time.  This is a temper tantrum.

Warner Todd Huston at Breitbart gives some examples.

President Obama sent the NPS to (a) Virginia park (Claude Moore Colonial Farm) without prior notification upsetting an event that was underway and forcibly removing everyone from the premises.

The employees at the Farm are now unable to work because Barry had a tantrum.  Maybe he’ll just order them closed.  Wouldn’t be the first time the Demander-in-Chief abused Federal power to shutter private business.

Another such nonsensical shutdown occurred in Arizona where 100 campgrounds that are fully funded by fees paid by visitors were forcibly shuttered and all campers removed.

The campgrounds, run by Recreation Resource Management, take no money from the government.

RRM president Warren Meyer told Fox Business, “our operations are self-sufficient (we are fully funded by user fees at the gate), we get no federal funds, we employ no government workers on these sites, and we actually pay rent into the Treasury.”

Meyer speculated that this was a tactic intended to make the government shut down hurt as many people as possible. “I can only assume their intention is to artificially increase the cost of the shutdown as some sort of political ploy,” he said.

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The famous Ford’s Theater–site of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination–was also forcibly shut down even though the theater and its programs are run by a private non-profit group.

Another unnecessary shut down occurred at George Washington’s home, Mount Vernon.

So the Federal government’s role, according to Obama and the Democrats, is to exercise force to inconvenience you until it gets its way.

Consider that in the context of Skip’s earlier post quoting John Hayward

“Do you really think the man who vandalized the World War II Memorial with barricades to make elderly veterans suffer will hesitate a microsecond to use your health care as leverage against you, the next time you defy his commands?”

– John Hayward

And now the same “man” has sent Parks Dept. stormtroopers to close venues with no funding connection to his federal government whatsoever simply because he thinks he can and should until he gets his way.

What’s the word I’m looking for to describe that?

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