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> thanks, Reagan Who's the president now and why is he absolved of all responsibilities?

• consteval 2y ago
  These things develop over a long period of time and much of this mentality was planted by Reagan (and other conservative economists, mostly inspired by Reagan). The push to privatization is a slow process. We're seeing it catch up in many areas, particularly education. In the next coming decades, I'm not confident free public education will be viable or even available.
• whaaaaat 2y ago
  It's partly Biden, for sure. It's partly Trump. Partly Obama, Clinton, Bush... This partisanism is useless. I'm not a democrat, I'm not a republican, but it's absolutely clear that Reagan represented a policy change that every admin thereafter has been happy to uphold.
  • gosub100 2y ago
    and maybe he was right ? We have a "service" that can't even keep bathrooms clean. Maybe government is the problem?
    • kelnos 2y ago
      They can't keep the bathrooms clean because their funding has stagnated and much of it has been redirected to firefighting. This is... what this entire article and discussion is about. It's a little bizarre that you could take "maybe government is the problem" from all this. USFS employees seem generally great, and competent at their jobs. If any part of government is the problem, it's the legislators who aren't funding them well enough. That's not a reason to take management of the parks out of the government's hands; that's a reason to stop voting for pro big-business fiscal conservatives who want to trick people into privatizing things because "government doesn't work for this", when the reason it doesn't work is because they deliberately broke it.