This is amazing.
That meanie Trump! How dare he!
Look at the first paragraph:
At California's Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.
They had one guy on staff, out of hundreds of workers, who had keys and/or lock picking skills??
Thanks for pointing out the government inefficiency, WaPo!
The fake news always comes up with the craziest attack angles and it never ceases to amaze me.
The wait to enter Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park this past weekend was twice as long as usual after the administration let go four employees who worked at the south entrance, where roughly 90 percent of the park's nearly 5 million annual visitors pass through.
And at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania, last week's widespread layoffs gutted the team that managed reservations for renting historic farmhouses. Visitors received notifications that their reservations had been canceled indefinitely.
Oh no! We're trying to pull the country back from adding ONE TRILLION IN DEBT EVERY 90 DAYS but tourists who can afford vacations might have to wait longer to see the Grand Canyon??
It sucks, I know. But I don't think these WaPo reporters understand what we're doing here. We're a family making $50,000 a year that's hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and keeps maxing out new credit cards to buy Jet Skis.
I am sorry that the Starbucks budget had to be trimmed, Margaret!
As part of a directive to fire most trial and probationary staff across the federal government, the Park Service on Friday terminated roughly 1,000 probationary employees, in what some are calling a 'Valentine's Day massacre.'
I can't take these people seriously.
"Help, some park rangers got fired, it's a genocide!"
BACK TO THE LOCKSMITH:
Nate Vince, Yosemite National Park's fired locksmith, said he found out about his termination three weeks before the end of his probationary period. The 42-year-old said he worries about not only his career prospects, but also the safety and security of park visitors and workers.
Yosemite, which is roughly the size of Rhode Island, has hundreds of locked buildings and gates. Sometimes visitors get locked inside vault toilets or restrooms. Sometimes employees get locked out of their houses in the middle of the night.
ONE MAN FOR AN AREA THE SIZE OF RHODE ISLAND.
However inefficient you think government is, it's worse.
Thanks for making the case for these reforms, WaPo.
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