Multiple State Parks possibly closing?

[Okie4570]

Salt Plains st park needs to be closed from mid April thru October anyway because of the buffalo gnats.

 

[Dave70968]

<sigh> When will you people learn? It's not about costs, or revenue; it's about punishing the citizens for not agreeing to raise taxes.

Why do you think schools get critical programs cut while administrations grow? Why do you think roads go unrepaired? The idea is to cause as much inconvenience and discomfort as possible as incentive to vote "properly" next time around, to get your heads right. Pour encourager les autres, as it were.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

The idea is to cause as much inconvenience and discomfort as possible as incentive to vote "properly" next time around, to get your heads right. Pour encourager les autres, as it were.

This is exactly why i never vote for encumbents, regardless of party.

 

[tRidiot]

Hopefully the Indians buy them up. Every time I camp in a state park I think to myself, "this place needs a casino."

Well, judging by the casino parking lots I pass on a regular basis, that would definitely be one way to increase park attendance!

<sigh> When will you people learn? It's not about costs, or revenue; it's about punishing the citizens for not agreeing to raise taxes.

QFT. Come on, Oklahoma... we have a $900M deficit. Not debt... deficit. According to the US Debt Clock webpage, Oklahoma has an almost $18B debt. So, if we don't tighten the belt somewhere (or everywhere), we're going to continue to follow the national trend. Is that what we want?

There're only two choices - we cut back the programs and positions currently in force in OK, or we raise taxes to cover $900,000,000 this year alone. And you know every single department is looking for its annual budget increase (they hope), just as every employee wants their annual cost of living increase.

How you gon' do all that?

Oklahoma
2.5% unemployment (do we believe this is accurate?)
3,933,561 population
626,369 on food stamps (~16%)
$178.6B GDP
$17.9B debt

We let Oklahoma go $18B in debt on our watch... how we gon' fix that, folks?

<edit> BTW, the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts OK at 4.7% unemployment, ranked 28th in the nation.

 

[Jeff405]

Does that mean we can hunt them for free?

 

[Sanford]

... if we don't tighten the belt somewhere (or everywhere)

Let's do that "everywhere" thing, including all the various and sundry sacred cows. A zero based budget for every single agency, department, and program might be a start in the right direction, coupled with a moratorium (5 years, maybe?) on any new projects or expansions.

 

[Okie4570]

Does that mean we can hunt them for free?

Lease them out to the highest bidder.

 

[CHenry]

just as every employee wants their annual cost of living increase.

Havent seen one of those in almost a decade...

 

[53convert]

I heard that Thunderbird is under consideration for closeing

 

[n423]

Havent seen one of those in almost a decade...

Isn't that the truth, I am a retired from State...