Say No to State Park Closures

There is no doubt that NYS is in terrible financial shape. If Stachowski doesn't like the park closings he should be championing a plan for real State spending cuts in other areas.

Perhaps if Senator Stachowski didn't have two phone numbers and two people to call, the state would not be in this predicament.

Perhaps if George Bush and the Republicans didn't bankrupt the country and New York State we wouldn't be talking about this. I think we should have signs posted giving credit to the culprits at the closed entrance to each park. Maybe something like "this park is closed due to tax cuts for the rich, unfunded and unnecessary wars, and 8 years of greed and incompetence".

Closing 41 state parks is a good start. I say close @80 more on top of that.

The state has @180 state parks. Most of them should never have been pawned off on the state to begin with. @60 state parks seem about right to me. That's one per county. The rest of the parks should be funded on the county or municipal level if that's what the local residents want.

Through a combination of ignorance, indifference, ineptitude and simple acts self serving by "leaders" of both parties, our state is close to falling off a financial cliff.

Sadly, public assets like our state park system, funded during more flush economic times are being offered up as a possibility for cost savings.

I do believe the parks system - like all other NYS services and operations must undergo a objective analysis to assure they are functioning efficiently and more importantly, do so in this new era of economic scarcity.

It is just my humble opinion, but all the major parties are beholden to the powerful forces in this country. They include but are not limited to those who were allowed to become "too powerful to fail." I think Obama made that horrible discovery. Even his own party could not exercise its majority. They may claim fear of their own constituencies, but I contend that is is more likely their own special interests. The constituents have no power here anymore. We are all at the mercy of the media which is under the control of these same powers.