[pct-l] Pct-L Digest, Vol 73, Issue 32

[Brick Robbins]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Terry <tsparks56 at aol.com> wrote:
> Putting the unemployed back to work maintaining our trails does make sense,  that is, until you think back to just a couple of months ago, when EVERY National Forest in the Country was shut down by our elected leaders in Congress.
> To bad we don't have another FDR today.

There is a bigger profit margin in defense contracting than trail
maintenance, and the money goes into wealthier and more politically
influential pockets than people swinging Pulaskis and Macleods or
hiking the trails.

One Littoral Combat ship has a price tag of $600 Million so that is a
lot of money in  of a small number of corporate pockets, and since
corporations now have unlimited 1st amendment rights to contribute to
politicians, their lobbyists have lots of money from the bloated
contracts to buy the politicians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_combat_ship

Wilderness areas don't have any lobbyists.