Government Waste Finally Gets a Small Diet, and NPR Panics

The article moans about national parks feeling the pinch of federal layoffs and hiring freezes, as if the world is ending because the government tightened its belt for once. Apparently, cutting 1,000 employees from the National Park Service (which somehow still has around 20,000 left) means tourists will be wading through mountains of trash and unregulated bear attacks. In reality, this is just a small dose of fiscal responsibility after decades of bloated budgets and inefficiencies. Of course, NPR frames it as a tragedy, when it’s really just a minor course correction. Taxpayers already fund billions into federal land management, yet we’re supposed to believe that without more government spending, nature will cease to function? Maybe if the parks cut a few DEI consultants and climate change “awareness programs” instead of actual maintenance staff, they wouldn’t be in this mess. Instead, they want more money while ignoring private-sector solutions. Less government waste, more efficiency—that’s the real path forward. Read the article if you want to see NPR’s predictable sob story.