Obama Administration Uses “Government Shutdown” as Pretext to Block Access to Tourist Attractions

by Hans Bader on October 3, 2013

In response to the so-called “government shutdown” (which actually has not shut down most of the government—80 percent of federal workers are still working), the Obama Administration is shutting down various tourist attractions, even though doing so costs the government more money than leaving them open. It is renting costly barricades to keep people out of open-air outdoor monuments that don’t need to be manned, and are typically open even when unstaffed (like the World War II Memorial). And it has sent Park Police to drive people out of privately-run tourist attractions on public land, like the Claude Moore Colonial Farm, endangering tourism-related jobs in the process…..To Read More…..