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Not really defending anything at all. All I said was the park director listed reasons why parks were closed. And you're telling me I'm blind and "defending my party" for listing those reasons. Also, you claimed its more expensive to barricade the park than to leave it open, without listing any dollar figures at all. Then you said anyone who disagrees with your guy feeling is a blind democrat shill sticking their head in the sand. Your signature says you are a data resources project manager, you should be highly skilled at providing just that single piece of data. 200k employees were laid off, so there MUST BE something somewhere that says the amount of security they hired is equal to--or greater than--the salary of the 200k employees furloughed for that stretch of time.

So all you have to do is find the data for that one claim and it will be a fact. And I'll believe you.
5 Years of working for GOVT contracting, 30+ year military BRAT, running several businesses, and knowing personally people who are laid off who work for the IRS.

I also know simple business practices. IT costs more money to send people to barricade a monument, than it does to leave it open.

Youre arguing that is costs more in gas to leave your car parked in a garage and not running than it does to drive it around 15 hours a day. Its really funny.

I suspect you will get some answers wednesday during the hearing. But you wont like them and will dismiss them.

Then theres the fact that the national parks director had no answers for why it was being done despite not being done in previous shutdowns. Then theres the fact that they agreed to back pay furloughed workers yet wouldnt let the parks be open?

Like i said i understand the lincoln memorial, its a building. Or the IRS HQ, lock the doors.

THESE ARE OPEN AIR open to the public monuments unguarded. you cant argue it didnt cost them money and resources to shut them. The ONLY reason to deduce is they did it intentionally for a motive. The most likely being to show the public what happens when the govt is "shutdown". Previous shutdowns showed this wasnt needed.