http://www.npr.org/2016/03/08/466461595/national-parks-have-a-long-to-do-list-but-cant-cover-the-repair-costs
Today's NPR news story about the National Park Service's inadequate maintenance
budget has two main interviewees; NPS representatives and a advocate from PERC
(Property and Environmental Research Center, Bozeman, MT), a right-wing
think-tank that has links to organizations and funding committed to
deregulation of industry and to the privatization of public assets. The
enraging thing about the news story is that NPS employees are limited in what
they can say; they can't criticize Congress for the politics of budgeting
inappropriately. Whereas PERC can spin their side of the story to make it sound
like the ONLY way to save public infrastructure is privatization.
