New Trump web page asks Americans if they want to ax National Park Service, other key land agencies

[babylonsister]

https://wilderness.org/blog/new-trump-web-page-asks-americans-if-they-want-ax-national-park-service-other-key-land-agencies


New Trump web page asks Americans if they want to ax National Park Service, other key land agencies

May 18, 2017


A recent executive order could "eliminate unnecessary agencies" in the name of streamlining government.

Photo illustration; Trump photo by Matt Johnson, flickr.


A new White House web page asks Americans which agencies they'd like to dismantle. Among the choices: the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other critical environmental departments. Here's how we should respond.

The Trump administration has again shifted its war on conservation, this time taking aim at the pillars of America's public lands: the National Park Service and other agencies.

Lost amid the furor over the White House's attacks on national monuments, the EPA and the Arctic, a recent executive order asks the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to "eliminate unnecessary agencies" in the name of streamlining government.

Shockingly, the White House's first step is simply...asking people which agencies they want to get rid of. Rarely do we see attacks on lands, waters and wildlife in such a stark and unmediated light. But sure enough, the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management and numerous others are among those you can select to "eliminate" through a new whitehouse.gov portal between now and June 12.

See how to tell the White House you REJECT its attack on public land agencies

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https://wilderness.org/blog/new-trump-web-page-asks-americans-if-they-want-ax-national-park-service-other-key-land-agencies

[MineralMan]

1. Yup, I knew it! Trump wants to privatize National Parks.

There's money in them, and he wants it for his Great Wall or some other thing. We need to get this horrible little man out of the White House - soonest.

[RKP5637]

5. This guy inhabiting the WH is an international danger to everything. Every damn day is another WTF!

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. But the guy who helps you at Walmart does too, they want to pay $50 to see Yosemite

instead of $20 or whatever WE the PEOPLE charge for upkeep.

The guy who assists your auto mechanic WANTS rich to get richer while his water is poisoned.

HE MUST, SHE MUST, cuz that is how they voted.

I have great anger for them, because guess what, they STILL support this shit.

[RKP5637]

2. All Trump sees are $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$'s for him and his cronies! Damn, Americans are

totally stupid if they let this obnoxious asshole get away with all of this crap!

[mwooldri]

3. I'd like to eliminate this present Department of the US President...

... and replace it with one that will protect all Americans. Including National Parks.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Is the Office of the president, the US Senate, and US House options?

[eleny]

9. Look in the second dropdown menu box for reforms Executive Office of President: Full Department

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Done, but they won't like what I said.

[blitzen]

8. The Koch bros dream....that's what drives them...

The elimination of all public land. In other words, the obliteration of one of the cornerstones of America's past and current greatness. Fuck you Trump with your "great again" bullshit!

[Bayard]

10. Thanks for the link

I definitely weighed in. Looking for black helicopters overhead......

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. The web page has been edited. It now asks

"What agency would you like to reform?"

https://www.whitehouse.gov/reorganizing-the-executive-branch

[hvn_nbr_2]

12. Some of my answers

Reform the Agency for Russian Spies in the White House.

Please eliminate the Department of Orange Buffoon Liars and the Justice Department's Confederate Apologia Director. Eliminate the Reefer Madness Division of the Justice Department.

Stop trying to give away or destroy national treasures for corporate greed.

Obey the Constitution's emoluments clause.

You really think I'm going to tell this vicious hateful administration who said these things?