The Official Thread Dedicated to "Trump Winning"

[Tim Steelersfan]

It just gets worse. We're taking much needed money out of our National park services to fund Trump's pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey party for his base and GOP donors? Great.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">SCOOP: Park Service has diverted $2.5 million in fees --normally used to improve parks around the country -- for Trump's July Fourth extravaganza as White House hands out VIP tickets to donors and Trump's campaign staff, W/<a href="https://twitter.com/jdawsey1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jdawsey1</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/DanLamothe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanLamothe</a> <a href="https://t.co/zRsCtifxrW">https://t.co/zRsCtifxrW</a></p>— Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) <a href="https://twitter.com/eilperin/status/1146198771132448769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Odds are 10:1 you don't have a clue what the NPS wastes or spends money on. It's language like this that you use that irks the **** out of most here. "Much needed..." Ohhh, the drama Tibs!

The NPS spent $65,473 to figure out what bugs do near a lightbulb
The National Park Service forked over $5,000 to Mars Hill University so it could make a documentary film about a local musician

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...rk-service-as-treasured-monuments-deteriorate

The National Park Service has a massive backlog of maintenance projects it cannot afford to address even as it continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars acquiring thousands of additional acres of new park land that has drawn little interest from the public.

A lengthy report on the Park Service released Tuesday by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., found that the service intends to spend $30 million over five years just to plan the agency's centennial anniversary.

Coburn believes the Park Services is plagued by wasteful spending, and his report cites examples, including $17.3 million for "Heritage Partnership Programs" that include a wine-tasting train in Ohio, and an "Autopalooza" automotive heritage show in Southeast Michigan.

Then there is the $15 million the Park Service spent on D.C. area concert venues like Wolf Trap in Vienna, Va., which generates up to $30 million in revenue every year. The Park Service spent $731,000 on a seven-year inspection of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis to detect stains, and that didn't include any money to clean them.

The agency, meanwhile, is drowning in deferred maintenance on parks and monuments that totals $11.5 billion and is hindering the public use of some of the nation's more popular attractions...

Meanwhile, the Park Service keeps buying land.

The federal government, according to the report, is planning to purchase 1,366 acres to add to Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park at a total cost of $107 million, and plans to scoop up three acres in the Virgin Islands for $2.77 million, among other purchases.

The overall park service budget is $3 billion annually, with $2.58 derived from congressional appropriations.

One area of potential Park Service waste involves the designation of historic sites that few people visit, but which cost millions to maintain and operate.

There is the Philadelphia row house where "wounded Polish freedom fighter" Thaddeus Kosciuszko lived for nine months. It barely gets six visitors a day and costs $352 an hour in federal tax dollars to operate.

Taxpayers also foot the annual $545,000 tab to maintain the Charles Pickney National Historic Site. It's an old farmhouse that researchers learned was built four years after the death of Pickney, a signer of the Constitution. It was designated a historic site after an unnamed senator from South Carolina pushed it through to stop a developer from building new houses on the land.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/co...ng-while-parks-themselves-fall-into-disrepair

Taxpayers shell out $52,000 a year to maintain the home of Black History Month founder Carter Woodson. Yet the tiny, dilapidated row house in northwest Washington D.C., with a "No Trespassing" sign and iron bars blocking the front door and windows hasn’t seen a visitor in the seven years since the National Park Service bought it for $2.1 million and designated it a National Historic Site.

His report documents a federal agency that is top heavy with bureaucracy and management, but badly mangles its spending priorities.

"This is an agency that spends $650 million a year administering a $2.6 billion budget," says Coburn -- a ratio he calls, "outlandish."

His report cites dozens of cases of waste. The Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site in the San Francisco Bay area, for example, averages less than 10 visitors a day. "With nine employees, the National Park Service often has more staff working the grounds, than daily visitors," the report says.

The NPS spends about $267K annually to restore and repair neon signs an old hotel signs on Route 66.

$2.2 million – From the National Park Service to pay for concerts and theater performances in the Washington DC area. The Park Service has asked Congress repeatedly to eliminate the earmark that funds the programs, but they were ignored.

Congress devoted $350,000 to the Paterson Great Falls National Historic Park (in New Jersey) which the National Park Service said should not be a federal park.

The federal government owns approximately one-third of all U.S. land. It does not need more land and it could be argued that it should not own 80% of Nevada and Alaska, and more than half of Idaho. That said, it wants to spend $2.3 billion to purchase more land and the National park Service currently has a backlog of maintenance tasks totaling $5 billion. These include parks that the Obama administration was saying would all have to be closed down because of a sequester reduction of a mere 1.2% of all federal spending.

Rage on Tibor. I suspect spending $2.5Million to celebrate America is far more worthy an expenditure than spending the money on discovering dirt, studying bugs drawn to lights, and keeping parks open that Americans don't visit.

 

[Spike]

Stop letting him lead u around by the nose, ignore him, stop quoting him, it just encourages him to garbage up more threads

 

[ark steel]

Any parade that doesn't involve beads and boobs is a waste of $

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Stop letting him lead u around by the nose, ignore him, stop quoting him, it just encourages him to garbage up more threads

Nope. ***** slapping the fool is pure, unadulterated entertainment.

 

[Steelworth]

Make sure you have your flags flying high, Steelworth. I'm sure you can teach us all a lesson in patriotism.

Says the ****-brick who lives in ******* Hungary and gets his news from the Soros-bankrolled Media Matters.

Yeah, you're a real Patriot. You may want to teach that lesson you're talking about (on WhatsApp or the like since you're not even ******* here).

 

[Tibs]

...spending $2.5Million to celebrate America...

That's probably just a fraction of the total cost to American taxpayers. And it's not to celebrate America, it's to celebrate Trump, the GOP and their donors.

If nothing else, it will be fun to watch MAGA's 'roid raging all over the country tmrw.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mood all week: <a href="https://t.co/7hDNdhBgsh">pic.twitter.com/7hDNdhBgsh</a></p>— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) <a href="https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1146425782585241601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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[Tim Steelersfan]

That's probably just a fraction of what the total cost will be to American taxpayers. And it's not to celebrate America, it's to celebrate Trump, the GOP and their donors.

It absolutely is money being spent to celebrate America Tibs. Keep on showing us how un-American you are.

I fondly remember how much you raged about the Obama family spending $2.6million of taxpayer money for one vacation to LA in October 2016. God you were enraged...wait...never mind.

 

[Tibs]

Maybe true patriots will have some fun at the 'A Salute To Donald J. Trump' rally, like they did when Nixon tried something similar with his disastrous 'Honor America Day' in 1970. I wonder what's being planned as far as protests, should be a fun-filled day for all. God Bless America!

 

[IndySteel]

It absolutely is money being spent to celebrate America ]

Exactly. A celebration of American independence and our freedom. And that is why the Left is so pissed about it. It's very insightful to their current state of mind. No American citizen should vote Democrat next year. They are party of criminal illegal immigrants and socialist globalism. It is plain and clear.

 

[CharlesDavenport]

Will be hearing about a National Parks crisis soon..

 

[Tibs]

Interesting note on how military leaders stood up to baby Trump on his dumb idea to parade tanks around on the streets of DC. Thankfully, looks like cooler and much more intelligent heads prevailed. We can all be thankful for that.

 

[21STEELERS21]

It's kind of funny that Dems get ragged on for being Socialists when Trump seems to be best friends and likes to emulate the Communists.
He wants a 4th that resembles what China, Russia and North Korea do.

What local officials are most worried about is that the streets of DC were not made for the weight of the Tanks, it's been hot in DC lately and the streets are soft, the military equipment could cause a bit of damage.

 

[CharlesDavenport]

What's the problem with tanks rolling down the street in a parade? Only thing I can assume is street damage.

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

What local officials are most worried about is that the streets of DC were not made for the weight of the Tanks, it's been hot in DC lately and the streets are soft, the military equipment could cause a bit of damage.

Like the damage socialist, terrorist AntiFA did to Andy Ngo - damage you supported?

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

What's the problem with tanks rolling down the street in a parade?

Liberals don't like it and hate a strong America.

 

[madinsomniac]

Interesting note on how military leaders stood up to baby Trump on his dumb idea to parade tanks around on the streets of DC. Thankfully, looks like cooler and much more intelligent heads prevailed. We can all be thankful for that.

Bet tanks rolling down the street does wonders for the asphalt lol

 

[Steelworth]

I'm with Sarge in that I think it's unnecessary and a waste of resources, but what's the big ******* deal?

"OMG, it's going to hurt asphalt!" Really? With all the useless spending on multiple things in this country, you're going to hitch your cart to that horse?

 

[IndySteel]

Fake news. Trump quote from Monday:

“We’re gonna have a great Fourth of July in Washington DC. it’ll be like no other it’ll be special and I hope follow a lot of people come and it’s going to be about this country and it’s a salute to America. And I’m going to be here and I’m going to say a few words and we’re going to have planes going overhead, the best fighter jets in the world and other planes too. And we’re gonna have some tanks stationed outside. You’ve got to be pretty careful with the tanks because the roads have a tendency not to like to carry heavy tanks. so we have to put them in certain areas"

 

[madinsomniac]

I'm with Sarge in that I think it's unnecessary and a waste of resources, but what's the big ******* deal?

"OMG, it's going to hurt asphalt!" Really? With all the useless spending on multiple things in this country, you're going to hitch your cart to that horse?

Its a thoroughly stupid idea. It was always dumb.

 

[Tibs]

Yup, call it what it is, a highly partisan reelection campaign for Lord Trump.

This looks like it’s becoming much more of a Republican Party event — a political event about the president — than a national celebration of the Fourth of July, and it’s unfortunate to have the military smack dab in the middle of that,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. David Barno, who commanded U.S. troops in Afghanistan under President George W. Bush.

“The president is using the armed forces in a political ploy for his reelection campaign and I think it’s absolutely obscene,” added retired Army Maj. Gen. William Nash, a veteran of Vietnam, the Gulf War and peacekeeping operations in the Balkans.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/02/trumps-militarized-july-4-1567767

 

[IndySteel]

Breaking News

The Dow hit an all-time record Wednesday as markets closed early for the Fourth of July holiday
U.S. stocks. traded higher on Wednesday lifting the Dow Jones Industrials and the S&P 500 to new records.

 

[IndySteel]

What a great holiday. The Dims are livid, triggered and demoralized...and the celebration hasn't even started yet!

 

[CharlesDavenport]

Here's a Medal of Honor recipient's opinion on the military parade - https://www.foxnews.com/us/medal-of-honor-recipient-trump-4th-of-july-celebration

 

[Tibs]

It raises the question whether military leaders choosing to attend are violating Dept. of Defense directives. Maybe they should check w their lawyers.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">DOD Directive 1344.10. military personnel may not participate in partisan political activities, to include fundraising, speaking at partisan gatherings, appearing in uniform for political events, seeking office or attending political events as a representative for the military.</p>— JScheel15 (@JeremyScheel1) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyScheel1/status/1146373792987525121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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[Tim Steelersfan]

Just remember, Trump using taxpayer dollars for a 4th of July Celebration is a travesty to Liberals. Yet they remained silent, said nary a word, as Obama used US Taxpayer Dollars to try to oust Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel while interfering in their election process.

No...outrage...at...all.

Seems a bit odd eh since Progressives get their panties all tied up in knots over foreign interference in elections and now wasteful use of taxpayer money.

Oh the lovely hypocrisy.