Hurting for cash, U.S. National Park Service turns to companies
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hurting-cash-u-national-park-100000069.html
The elevators that carried President Barack Obama 750 feet down into the caves of Carlsbad Caverns are working again, just in time for the first familys visit this week to the national park.
The President and his entourage, including the press, split up into about 8 groups to ride two small elevators down into the caves. Two other elevators, long-out of service, werent fixed in time and stayed shut. It wasnt perfect, but it worked -- and saved Obama and his family the mile-long hike deep underground to view the New Mexico hidden wonder.
In a cavernous space known as the Big Room, he stared upward at stalactites and stalagmites, spiking down from above and shooting up from below. "How cool is this?" Obama said to reporters.
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Thanks Repubs, an idea recognized around the world as one of the best "exported" American ideas....and they are sabotaging it.