'Biggest nightmare': National Park Service quietly kills program after 15 years

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4. The Soviet States of America

Soviet citizens had a field day making jokes about how everything their elitist government declared was "for the people" of their glorious socialist paradise. In reality, things there never really got better, and usually worse, and the place finally fell apart from within.

So, too, using his Soviet role model yet again, the Trumpanzee government thinks up one little detail after another t4o make our country less great than it was. Our National Park Service already is operating on a budget far too small to be as effective as it should be. And to think that one of the our National Parks' greatest promoters was the last great Republican President!

From the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic site:

Theodore Roosevelt, often called "the conservation president," impacted the National Park System well beyond his term in office. He doubled the number of sites within the National Park system. As President from 1901 to 1909, he signed legislation establishing five new national parks: Crater Lake, Oregon; Wind Cave, South Dakota; Sullys Hill, North Dakota (later re-designated a game preserve); Mesa Verde, Colorado; and Platt, Oklahoma (now part of Chickasaw National Recreation Area). However another Roosevelt enactment had a broader effect: the Antiquities Act of June 8, 1906. The Antiquities Act enabled President Roosevelt and succeeding Presidents to proclaim historic landmarks, historic or prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest in federal ownership as national monuments.