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PostTue Jun 28, 2005 5:06 pm 
I think that privatization of the parks has with it the inherant possibility of commercialization of the parks. The very thing that many of us go to the parks to escape. If I wanted commercialization I'd go to the movies.

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PostTue Jul 05, 2005 4:04 pm 
while this seems to be becoming an "everyone vs mtngoat" thread, thought i would chime in. History shows us that corporate america only cares about the environment when it's in their best interest (not very often). We cannot expect a company to do whats good for America when they are primarily focussed on providing profits for their owners and/or stockholders. They are often at cross purposes. We should be looking at our wild areas as "national treasures" to be preserved as best as possible. It's not about being profitable, it's about these wonderful resources being around for our children, their children, etc. It's about keeping them as pristine as possible and still accomodating the milllions of visitors they receive each year. It's interesting to talk about govt finances. How come our military doesnt make a profit? How come our judiciary, our administration, our infrastructure upkeep doesnt make a profit? It's part of the cost of our society. But, there are other ingrained reasons why the upkeep of our natural resources loses as much money as it does. Our national forests are stripped at our expense because the lumber and mining companies don't even pay enough to even cover the roads we build for them, much less the value of the actual resources they remove and the myriad of indirect costs such as floods caused by runoff from clearcuts, dimished fish spawns caused by warmer and dirtier rivers, etc. This debate should never have been around whether to make our national environmental treasures profit making. It SHOULD be around where the f### all that money we pay in taxes is ACTUALLY going (ie. iraq). THAT is why we have to pay extra at the ranger station, we have to raise taxes to pay for schools, we cannot get the money to pay for much needed transportation upgrades, etc. Once the debate focusses on our govt spending as a whole, everyone will realize there is tons of money for the environment, schools, transportation, social security, health, etc. It's just being spent on our huge military-industrial complex in the "name" of national security. This is why this topic becomes a political one so often, because there is no separating the two. At some point in robbing Peter(the american people) to pay Paul (multinational corporations, military-industrial complex, energy producers, wealthy benefactors) you kinda wonder at what point Peter will have had enough...??

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