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take over their responsibility of opening these national parks, but won't let states like Arizona deal with the immigration problem that the government refuses to control?
States step up to fill federal government void
First, it was a foundation stepping up to cover the cost of death benefits for America's fallen soldiers.
Now, states are starting to come forward to fill the roles that the federal government has abandoned amid the partial government shutdown.
The latest example is Utah, whose governor announced overnight that the state struck a deal with the U.S. Department of Interior to re-open five national parks -- using Utah taxpayer dollars.
Gov. Gary Herbert signed an agreement to pay the National Park Service up to $1.67 million to re-open eight total sites in the state for up to 10 days.
"Utah's national parks are the backbone of many rural economies and hard-working Utahns are paying a heavy price for this shutdown," Herbert said in a written statement. His office said the parks -- including Zion and Bryce Canyon -- will start opening on Friday and be fully operational by Saturday.
The deal comes after the Interior Department agreed to let states use their own money to open some parks amid the partial shutdown. Governors from Utah and three other states -- South Dakota, Arizona and Colorado -- had asked for that authority.
Though the states would have to front their own money to the federal government, they acted in part out of concern that local communities were losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost tourism revenue due to the parks' closure.
Figures compiled by a coalition of retired park service workers indicate that, in total, some 700,000 people a day would have been visiting the parks and that the surrounding areas are losing $76 million in visitor spending per day.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/11/states-step-up-to-fill-federal-government-void/
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on one hand I'm glad the feds are out of the picture. I want our country to not need them, I want to say we don't need them at all; but on another hand I know what fucking total dicks people are and that they won't hesitate one second to totally trash our national treasures. I know these dicks and they are total fucking assholes!!! I wish that was not the case but I have total faith that the idiots would do just that, shit on everything and justify the need for federal governance in the process ::) I love my country, the people I live around, maybe not so much.
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Keeping the borders open and the immigrants pouring in is critical to the liberal agenda. Therefore when a state tries to actually secure their border, esp a red state, the fed swoops in and obstructs them.