It has been almost 2 full years, long enough for President Obama to learn the ropes/doors of his new job. So is it lack of will,,,or is this new President unable to make changes to the big bloated incompetent bureaucracy that is the Federal Government?
The new "Department of Education",all hail, can not keep the California administrators of Public Education, principals and superintendents, from 'golden handshake' and 'golden parachute' ,plus bloated salary, STEALING from the still failing, near bottom, public system. And the repudiated "no child left behind" of Pres. Bush jr. ,,,is still ,,,THE RULE,,, 'IN EFFECT' !?
The NPS still acts the same silly, stupid, anti-visitor, pro-Republican Party way,,,in taking $300 from a 'mass transit' bus/charter bus at the gates of Yosemite, even with just one passenger is on it. Or letting the major business, the 'park concessionaire', set the park policy of the level of guest services ,,,instead of the National Park Service,,,such as only one 2-hour Valley Tour tram per hour, instead of the two vehicles that the public ask for.
Or Muir Woods National Monument, where a meadow is used for overflow parking,besides the two small paved lots and all the unimproved road edges for half a mile,,,but a large parking garage there and eco-bus service has been needed for ,,,DECADES!!
Zero progress is being made on cleaning up San Francisco Bay and Delta. More abandoned vessels are polluting the waters,like the recent salvage-long abandoned tug episode,,,and the stupid continuation of the moth ball fleet. Will we ever have a Bay Area politician who will give major priority to the health of the environment of the SF Bay Area!? All we ever get is pre-election 'lip service' empty promises. If that.
The federal government seems ,,,ungovernable,,, even by such an idealistic new President as Obama and his Democrat Party new majority. We are still spending American lives and $Billions we don't have on the unpopular and ineffective Middle East Wars,,,
Republican or Democrat, what difference does it really make,,, on the ground?
