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Old 10-17-2013, 08:10   #7
Richard
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Originally Posted by Sdiver View Post
I saw this story posted in several other places, and a friend of mine (a past member of this BB, who is a former QP, here in CO) brought up on his FB wall about how fast the signs "magically" appeared at the various parks, offices, monuments, etc., with the logos and wording of the govt. shutdown, all over the country, less than four hours after the shutdown was announced.
So you and your friend don't think the NPS and others might have been more or less prepared for such an eventuality after years of budget wrangling brouhaha and hyperbolic posturing on all sides of the political spectrum which have yet to yield a federal budget for the last several years combined with on-going blogospheric calls for boycotts, marches, gatherings, etc?

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