BEWARE OF "WINNING" PRIZES ON RADIO CONTESTS !!

DEAR FELLOW RADIO LISTENER,
JUST A LITTLE MORE CAVEAT EMPTOR, THIS TIME ABOUT "WINNING
PRIZES ON RADIO SHOWS,,,
MY PARENTS WERE IN THEIR 70'S AND LISTENING TO A POP RADIO STATION ONE OF THE 4 KIDS LEFT ON THE KITCHEN RADIO,,,WHEN S.F. BAY AREA RADIO STATION 101.3 FM ANNOUNCED THEY WERE GIVING
AWAY A JACUZZI SPA TO THE SOME NUMBER CALLER TO PHONE IN,,,SO MY MOM, THE LESS CONSERVATIVE , PHONED IN AND WON,,,AMAZING,,,
WHAT LUCK,,,SHE ALMOST NEVER ENTERS "FREE" CONTESTS,,,AND SHE WON A BIG NEW HOTTUB,,,WOW,,,
THAT WAS UNTIL SHE TRIED TO COLLECT HER SO CALLED "PRIZE",,,
THE RADIO STATION HAD CONTRACTED WITH ONE OF ITS ADVERTISERS SWAPPING AIR ADVERT TIME FOR A CERTAIN NUMBER OF HOTTUBS TO GIVE AWAY, TO INCREASE THEIR AUDIENCE,,,HAPPENS ALL THE TIME,,,
WELL, THE COMPANY THAT HAD "PAID" IN HOTTUBS FOR RADIO ADVERTISING ON 101.3FM WAS NOT VERY REPUTABLE,,,IN FACT, WAS ABOUT TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS, IN EMERYVILLE,,,NO MORE HOTTUBS,,,
SO MY ELDERLY PARENTS WENT THRU THE HASSLE OF GOING OVER TO THIS SLEAZOID BUSINESS OF HOTTUBS IN EMERYVILLE AND TRIED TO PICK UP ONE OF THEIR LAST HOTTUBS,,,AMAZINGLY, THEY GOT ONE OF THE LAST ONES,,,AND HAD IT PLACED IN THEIR BACK YARD , ON A BIG SLAB OF CONCRETE THEY HAD TO HAVE POURED,,,NOW SOME WOULD SAY THEY MADE OUT LIKE BANDITS, SO FAR,,
BUT AS I SAID , THIS WAS NOT A GREAT, OR GOOD, OR EVEN AVERAGE QUALITY AND REPUTATION HOTTUB COMPANY, SO THE HOTTUB THEY GOT WAS A NON-STANDARD BRAND,,,AND BROKE DOWN
ALMOST IMMEDIATELY,,,SO MY FOLK MAY HAVE FIRST THOUGHT THEY HAD WON, BUT THEN REALIZED THEY HAD ACTUALLY LOST, WHEN A QUALITY HOTTUB REPAIR COMPANY TOLD THEM WHAT A PIECE OF JUNK
THEY HAD "WON" AND HOW MUCH IT WOULD COST TO REPAIR, BESIDES THE COST OF THE CONCRETE PAD ALREADY PAID FOR,,,
SOME OF YOU COCKEYED OPTIMISTS ARE PROBABLY STILL, STILL SAYING, HEY DUDE THEY WON,,,WHELL, NOT REALLY,,,AS THE HOTTUB
BROKE DOWN AGAIN,,,AND AGAIN,,,AND AFTER LESS THAN A YEAR OF USE, NOW JUST TAKES UP SPACE IN THE BACKYARD,AS A PIECE OF LOW QUALITY CRAP THAT SOME BIG FAMOUS RADIO STATION PAWNED OFF ON ITS UNSUSPECTING LISTENERS,,,I HAVE OFFERED TO TAKE IT OUT FOR FREE,, , AND EVEN BUY ONE OF THE TOP QUALITY BRANDS TO REPLACE IT, AS MY DAD NEEDS WEEKLY CHIROPRACTIC MEDICAL TREATMENTS FOR A PULLED BACK MUSCLE NOW,,,BUT THEY SAY NO,,,AS WHY BOTHER WITH ANOTHER "FREE" HOT TUB THAT MAY BRING WITH IN ALL KINDS OF ADDITIONAL EXPENSES AND REPAIRS,,,
I KNOW THIS KIND OF THING HAPPENS ALL THE TIME IN AMERICAN CORPORATE LIFE. THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT IS OK. SINCE MOST OF US TAKE TV DOSES FOR REALITY, BE IT COP DRAMAS INSTEAD OF THE REAL THING, OR COURT DRAMAS, OR MILITARY DRAMAS THAT HAVE LITTLE OR NOTHING TO DO WITH THE REAL INTERNAL CULTURE OF THAT SEGMENT OF OUR WORLD.
OH, AND THERE ARE OTHER RADIO STATIONS THAT DO THE SAME OR WORSE. ONE BIG SOUTH BAY/SILCON VALLEY FAMOUS ROCK RADIO STATION DOES THE SAME ADVERT SWAP WITH A LIMO COMPANY THE OLD LIMO DISPATCHER TOLD ME ALSO SOLD ILLEGAL DRUGS. BUT THE BIG FAMOUS ROCK RADIO STATION DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THE COMPANIES THAT ADVERTISE ON ITS STATION NOR DO THEY CARE THEY SAID ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THE LIMO COMPANY "PRIZES" THEY REGULARLY GIVE AWAY. IT IS JUST BIZ.
MY WEAKNESS IS THE "WEST WING". PRESIDENT BARTLET IS SUCH A GOOD PRESIDENT , PERSON, AND FATHER !!! BUT SAM SEABORN RECENTLY SAID ON ONE OF THE SHOWS THAT MOST SMALL BUSINESS FAIL BECAUSE OF EMPLOYEE THEFT. AND THAT SKEWED STAT CERTAINLY NEEDS CLARIFICATION. IMAGINE A LOWLY EMPLOYEE STEALING PENS AND PENCILS WITH THE COMPANY NAME ON THEM THAT GET RECIRCULATED OUT IN THE MARKET. OR MAYBE THE EMPLOYEE USED THE COMPANY CAR TO GET LUNCH, AS I HAVE DONE MANY TIMES, SINCE SO MANY OF THE COMPANIES I HAVE WORKED FOR FEEL THEY DON'T NEED TO GIVE EMPLOYEES TOILET BREAKS OR A MEAL BREAK IN 8-18 HOURS.
NOW LET'S LOOK AT ENRON AND WORLDCOM. AS SAM SAID, THESE WERE SUITS STEALING, AND TOP MANAGEMENT SUITS. ALSO MAY I REFER YOU TO THE NOW AMERICAN CORPORATE FORGOTTEN S+L SCANDAL, WHERE HUNDREDS OF FEDERALLY GUARANTEED S+L s WERE BOLDLY FLEECED AND ROBBED BY MANAGEMENT SUITS. LOCALLY, I USE TO USE A MECHANIC RECOMMENDED BY "CONSUMER CHECKBOOK" UNTIL THE 3RD VISIT WHEN THE GARAGE OWNER ON N. LINCOLN AVENUE SAID THEY HAD AGAIN FORGOTTEN TO KEEP MY REPLACED PARTS,LIKE AN EXPENSIVE TIMING BELT AND FILTERS, SO I COULD NOT ONLY SEE THE WEAR BUT MAKE SURE THEY REPLACED THE OLD "WORN OUT PARTS" LIKE SPARK PLUGS. ANOTHER LOCAL SF BAY AREA EXAMPLE IS A LIMO COMPANY THAT WAS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY "VALUE STAR", AND AS AN EMPLOYEE I KNEW THEY TREATED THEIR WEDDING AND FAMOUS CLIENTS LIKE DIRT AND MADE A TON OF MONEY IN THE PROCESS. CAVEAT SUIT EMPTOR. THE LIMO COMPANY OWNER REGULARLY WOULD SWITCH THE STRETCH'S COLOR ON BRIDES, SO THAT ASIAN BRIDES WOULD GET WHITE STRETCHES AND CAUCASIAN BRIDES WOULD GET BLACK STRETCHES. I WOULD OBJECT BUT SHOW UP ON TIME AT THE CHURCH OR HOME IN THE DEFINITELY WRONG COLOR STRETCH LIMOUSINE, AND THE BRIDE AND MOTHER WOULD BE IN TEARS AND THE FATHER WOULD BE STEAMING MAD. I WOULD ASK IF THEY PAID BY CREDIT CARD AND PUT THE COLOR REQUESTED AND "LESS THAN 3 YRS OLD" AND SIZE SINCE A "6 PACK" ONLY COMFORTABLY SEATS 4 AND A "10 PACK" MAY ONLY COMFORTABLY SEAT 7,,,AND THEY WOULD USUALLY SAY "NO, WE PAID BY CHECK". AMERICAN CORPORATE SCREWED, AS USUAL, WEEKEND AFTER WEEKEND, THE OWNER MADE HIS HUGE PROFIT THO HE WAS NOT FOLLOWING STATE LAW IN PAYING HIS DRIVERS OVERTIME, JUST AS MOST LIMO AND CHARTER/TOUR BUS COMPANIES DONT LEGALLY OBEY THE LAW BUT PUT REGULAR STRAIGHT HOURS IN THE TIME AND A HALF OVERTIME BOX AND THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA LETS THOUSANDS OF COMPANY OWNERS, NOT LOWLY HOURLY SLAVES LIKE ME, STEAL BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM THE WORKING POOR AND DECLINING MIDDLE INCOME CLASS IN CALIFORNIA ALONE. SO SAD THAT WE ALLOW OWNERS AND MANAGERS AND MANAGEMENT TO STEAL FROM EMPLOYEES AND FROM AMERICAN CONSUMERS, AND THEN TO TOP IT OFF WE LET THEM DECLARE AN OFFSHORE TAX HAVEN SO THEY DON'T PAY ANY FEDERAL TAXES,AS IF THIS WAS THE ONLY WAS AMERICAN COMPANIES COULD SUCCEED AND PROFIT, BY OUTRIGHT LAWBREAKING, FRAUD, AND THEFT. OUR CULTURAL ELITE WILL STEAL.
SO REGARDLESS OF THIS LIE TOLD IN BUSINESS SCHOOLS AND ON OUR "REALITY" FANTASY TV, IT IS THE SUITS THAT HAVE ALWAYS,OFTEN WITH THE HELP OF GOVERNMENT, STOLEN MORE AND CAUSED MORE BUSINESSES TO FAIL, THAN THE LOWLY HOURLY EMPLOYEE. OH, SO MANY EXAMPLES, BUT HERE IS JUST ONE MORE,,,I WAS IN "MISAD" FAMOUS MUFFLER SHOPS ,BUT FOR BRAKE DISC PADS, AND I HEARD A COUNTER GUY TELL A HOUSEWIFE WITH A STATIONWAGON THAT "MISAD" COULD NOT LET HER LEAVE WITHOUT ALL NEW 4 BRAKES AS HERS WERE SO WORN AS TO BE UNSAFE...!!!,,,HA,,,SHE BOT IT,,,AND DO YOU THINK CORPORATE "MISAD" OR CALIFORNIA STATE CONSUMER PROTECTION AGENCY DID ANYTHING CORRECTIVE ABOUT IT, ,,YOU ARE IN FANTASY LAND.

MANY TRAVEL WEBSITES, LIKE "HOTWIRE", ARE DECEIVING S.F.-BOUND TRAVELERS

GO TO ALMOST ANY TRAVEL WEBSITE AND PUNCH IN THAT YOU WANT A HOTEL SEARCH OF "SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA", AND YOU WILL NOTICE THAT MANY WEBSITES, LIKE "HOTWIRE" AND MANY OTHERS, ARE MAKING UP A NEW NAME FOR THE NIGHTTIME- SCARY NEIGHBORHOOD THE "TENDERLOIN" OF PROSTITUTES AND DRUG DEALERS AND DAYTIME SOUP KITCHEN LONG LINES AND NEVER ENOUGH COPS WALKING THE DANGEROUS STREETS. THEY ARE CALLING IT THE "WESTERN UNION SQUARE" NEIGHBORHOOD , JUST AS SOME IN THE PAST WITH MONEY TO MAKE IN DECEPTION, CALLED IT THE "LOWER NOB HILL" NEIGHBORHOOD. DO NOT BE CONNED, HOODWINKED, TRICKED, OR DECEIVED BY THIS ALL TOO COMMON PRACTICE.
I CAN NOT TELL YOU HOW MANY FOREIGN TOURISTS I HAVE MET WHO HAVE BOOKED A HOTEL AND VACATION IN SAN FRANCISCO THROUGH ANY WEBSITE AND HAD TO SUFFER THE BASIC WEB MARKET DISHONESTY OF CHOOSING A HOTEL WITH ONLY ITS PRICE AND NUMBER OF STARS/QUALITY TO GO ON. NO ADDRESS BEFORE PURCHASE COMMITMENT AND IN MANY INSTANCES A FRAUDULENT NEIGHBORHOOD OR CITY AREA DESCRIPTION. MANY TRAVEL WEBSITE LIST MOTELS AND HOTELS IN THE NEIGHBORING COUNTY OF SAN MATEO AS BEING IN A S.F. MOTEL/HOTEL SEARCH, MAYBE BECAUSE THEY ARE NEARER TO S.F.'S SFO AIRPORT, WHICH IS OUTSIDE S.F. CITY AND COUNTY LIMITS. IMAGINE THE HORROR WHEN PEOPLE ARRIVE IN S.F. AND DISCOVER THAT MOST TRAVEL WEBSITES HAVE DECEIVED THEM EVEN FURTHER BY INTENTIONALLY MISNAMING THE BAD NEIGHBORHOOD ,THE "TENDERLOIN", AS SOME PAP EUPHEMISM LIKE
"LOWER SNOB HILL" OR " WESTERN NEEDLESS MARKUPS UNION SQUARE" ?
TRAVEL IS S.F.'S NUMBER ONE BUSINESS AND YET THERE IS NO CENTRAL RESERVATION OFFICE AS IN MANY MORE CIVILIZED WESTERN EUROPEAN CITIES. NOR IS THERE A CENTRAL CITY TAXI DISPATCH SO FINDING A CAB IN S.F. IS USUALLY VERY DIFFICULT,AS THEY PREFER LIKE IN SEATTLE TO DO THE SFO AIRPORT RUN,,,SPEEDING OR JUST DRIVING RECKLESSLY. MOST OF THE COPS IN SUCH A CITY SEEM TO HAVE FORGOTTEN THEIR MANNERS, BUT NOT THE USUAL SCOWL AND A FEW FOUR LETTER WORDS. AND DOUBLE PARKING IS NOT JUST A TICKET BUT A MOVING VIOLATION GOING ON YOUR TRAFFIC RECORD AND AGAINST YOUR INSURANCE. AND YOU, OUR GUEST, THE TOURIST IS PAYING THROUGH THE NOSE FOR SUCH TREATMENT.
ALL TRAVELLERS SHOULD BEWARE OF MOST TRAVEL WEBSITES THAT SEEM TO THINK SUCH TRICKERY AND SLIGHT OF HAND AND COMMON BUSINESS DECEPTION AND MISREPRESENTATIONAL FRAUD ARE SOMEHOW "OK" FINE. MORE ON TRAVEL TIPS FOR S.F. IN A LATTER ARTICLE.
BUT FOR NOW, DO BEWARE OF THESE FLASHY "SALE, SALE, SALE" CAMERA STORES THAT SELL SECOND RATE CAMERA AS FIRST RATE, AND GET AWAY WITH IT FOR DECADES, EVEN THO I BELIEVE IT WAS "60 MINUTES" THAT WARNED US OF THIS NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO UNSAVORY COMMON BUSINESS PRACTICE WAY BACK IN THE 1990s.
RATHER, IF YOU WERE MY RELATIONS, I WOULD RECOMMEND YOU SEARCH THE NORTHERN NEIGHBORHOOD OF "COW HOLLOW", BETWEEN RICH SELFISH BASTARDS OF PACIFIC HEIGHTS, PROBABLY MOSTLY REPUBLICANS, AND THE VERY NORTHERN EDGE, THE "MARINA DISTRICT", ANOTHER RELATIVELY SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD OF RICH SELFISH BASTARD REPUBLICANS,,, AND LOTS OF YUPPIES. YOU HAVE THE TWO SHOPPING AND DINING STREETS OF CHESTNUT AND UNION AND MANY MANY MOTELS AND HOTELS IN RELATIVE CLEAN SAFETY FOR LESS THAN $100 US /NIGHT FOR TWO. THERE ARE QUIETER STREETS IN "COW HOLLOW" BUT FOR $69-79 US/NIGHT/DOUBLE LAST SUMMER 2004, THE COMFORT INN IS ONE OF MANY GOOD BUYS IN THIS WELL POSITIONED NEIGHBORHOOD.
HAPPY TRAILS AND TRAVEL SAFE !!

"AMAZON.COM" DOES NOT LABEL ITS BOOK TITLES AS "FICTION" OR "NONFICTION",,,HOW NONSENSICAL IS THAT!!?!!

RECENTLY I PURCHASED A FEW BOOKS FROM "AMAZON.COM", AND AFTER RECEIPT WAS TOLD THAT I HAD TO LOOK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WEBPAGE OR SOME OTHER STRANGE PLACE TO FIND THAT THO I WANTED NONFICTION IN THIS BOOK SEARCH, ONE OF THE BOOKS I HAD BOUGHT WAS A BOOK OF FICTION WITH A TITLE MASQUERADING AS NONFICTION, AND NO CLEAR TITLE LABEL BY "AMAZON.COM" THAT THIS BOOK I CLEARLY WAS NOT INTERESTED IN WAS AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN TITLE LABELED "FICTION".

THIS POLICY MAKES NO SENSE AND "AMAZON.COM" DOES NOT HAVE THE EASIEST POLICY ON RETURNS IN CLEARCUT CASES LIKE THIS WHEN THE PRODUCT SOLD HAS BEEN CLEARLY MISREPRESENTED.

THEREFORE, BEWARE OF THE "AMAZON.COM" WEBSITE...!!

SAFEWAY'S "IS IT FRESH ?" FISH, BIG STINKING LIE

Back in the late 1980s, not so long ago, i worked at a Safeway fish counter in Silicon Valley. And i couldn't eat fish without wanting to retch for years.
One of the first strange rules of Safeway was and may still be is that all the fish arrives at stores frozen and yet we employees were forbidden to say that the fish was "frozen". There was a big, huge stainless steel sink with hot water that we would thaw the fish frozen blocks in every morning, to add to all the fish that we could not throw away from the refrigerator and the rusty stainless steel rack and dirty plastic rack cover. So when a customer asked, and we had Playboy bunnies and computer geeks and executives at the counter, "Is this fish fresh?" , meaning has it never been frozen and was it caught and shipped recently, Safeway told us to always answer "Yes, this fish is fresh." A huge lie, but American employees do such things normally in almost every job and field , every day.
Safeway boss told us that they had done a study that if we put out more and bigger stacks of fish, customers would buy more, so we did. But it was so disgusting how we were told to do it. When we thawed frozen new "fresh" fish, we were told to put in on the bottom of the stack of that kind of fish, under all the days and weeks old slimy smelly fish that we might rinse daily,or not.
Gross ? It gets worse. Out in the display trough on ice chips we had a huge 'brown' trout that went out there week after ,,,week,,,and eventually turned to brown flesh mush that we could not even handle. Have a vomit big trashcan nearby, cuz the floor was so disgustingly dirty greasy, and under the fish counter were all these prawns and shrimp what were growing mold afros cuz we were only allowed about 15 minutes to set up and 15 minutes to tear down, so no time to pick up and soap and scrub the floor.In fact we were not allowed to clean the floor even on our own time as it was against Safeway policy.
So, where were and are the public health departments to stop this ? Where were and are our elected representatives to protect us from such common private enterprise fraud and deception and public health risk? Business as usual.

Amtrak, why did Congress design you to fail ??!?

Amtrak, the press says , is threatened,weak, and about to be cut/killed/downsized by Congress.
So what is wrong with Amtrak ?
If you have ridden Amtrak across the USA you might know the real answer. If you are in Congress, you probably couldn't /wouldn't find the truth because of politics,even with something as important as a national railroad service. The USA is so far behind more civilized and culturally advanced Western Europe as far as public mass transportation goes. Who would even think of privatizing the USA Interstate Highway System with gas prices going higher than $3/gallon than those ivory tower fools in Congress ? And who has made sure Amtrak will sooner or later fail ? Our private campaign dirty money funded Congress.
Ask any passenger who has ridden Amtrak long distances and they will tell you what is wrong with
Amtrak, more honestly than Congress. Ask any Amtrak conductor what is wrong with Amtrak and even as employees they will probably tell you what is chronically fatally wrong with Amtrak.
I asked a conductor why this good idea is failing, after all the millions of square miles of land we gave the private railroads on either side of the tracks to build us a state of the art passenger and freight national railroad system. And all the millions in overpayment that the US railroads and people like Stanford stole from us. Think we would have had a /any less than perfect Interstate Highway System if we had gone a similar overspend and allow to steal privatization route ? Not a greedy chance.
The conductor told me that Amtrak has a terrible rough ride and the trains are often late due to being forced onto a sidetrack by a slow freight train. The USA and Amtrak rent the tracks from these same US railroad theives who have been stealing the USA blind for decades and the private railroad trains have the right-of-way on lousy bumpy freight train tracks. The conductor said Amtrak will never succeed unless it owns the tracks and can upgrade them to passenger smoothness, comfort and safety. The private railroad bastards don't care about passengers period. And he said Amtrak must have the right-of-way. Makes sense.
Now why does our overpaid and overpensioned and over quality medical plan and out-of-touch Congress fail to see or fix this obvious simple problem ?
As a California tour and charter bus driver, i can tell you that Congress and it's Amtrak are wasting millions and billions of dollars on feeder bus company contracts whether or not there are any bus-Amtrak passengers, these buses are crisscrossing this state and probably every other state , as a buy off to the bus industry. This should be pork barrel stopped immediately. And these bus companies get away with putting their oldest and least well maintained buses and worst driving record drivers on the Amtrak paid daily runs. Such a waste.
It does not seem to matter who is put in Amtrak, like a seemingly honorable recent Democratic national presidental candidate, as Congress from the get go has designed intentionally Amtrak to fail.
And we lazy-citizenship Americans, foolish with our national trust, are going to just sit by and let Amtrak fail it seems. It isn't a crying shame, but it is such a stupid waste of USA taxpayer billions and the effort of so many. Get ready for $4 and $5/gallon gas and even more obscene gas company profits than we are seeming now at over $2/gallon.

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO PRICE-OUT AMERICA'S WORKING POOR AND SHRINKING MIDDLE CLASS ?!?!

I WORKED IN YOSEMITE VALLEY FOR 10 YEARS, FROM 1974 TO 1984, SO BESIDES LOVING JOHN MUIR'S CATHEDRAL, I HAVE SOME MORE THAN PASSING CAR TOURIST INSIGHT,,,
SO WHY DOES THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE,,, AND THE U.S. FEDERAL GOVERMENT,,,AND THE MAIN PARK CONCESSIONAIRE DELAWARE NORTH,,,WANT TO RAISE PRICES IN YOSEMITE SO DRASTICALLY AND REMOVE MANY OF THE LOWER PRICED ACCOMODATIONS THAT HAVE THE EFFECT OF KEEPING HARD WORKING AMERICAN CITIZENS, THE WORKING POOR AND THE STILL DECLINING MIDDLE CLASS, FROM VISITING AND ENJOYING ONE OF THE BEST NATIONAL PARKS IN THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES,,,?
WELL, IT IS JUST A GUESS, BUT I WOULD FIRST LIKE TO BLAME THE PARTY OF THE RICH, THE REPUBLICANS, AND THE PARTY THAT HAS FORGOTTEN THE NON-RICH, THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL PARTY.
THEN I WOULD LIKE TO BLAME ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION, THAT TAKE IN ABOUT 60 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR FROM WELL INTENTIONED MOSTLY FOLKS WHO WANT TO HELP THE NPS DOUBLE MISSION OF PROTECTING THE PARKS AND PROVIDING FOR THEIR ENJOYMENT BY THE GREATER PUBLIC, AND YET HAVE THEIR MONEY SPENT BY A BOARD OF RICH SPOILED BASTARDS, YES I HAVE MET THEM, WHO SUBVERT THIS WELL-INTENTIONED HUGE DONATION TO A STATED CAUSE OF "ELIMINATING CARS FROM YOSEMITE COMPLETELY", WHEN THEY KNOW OR SHOULD KNOW THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE FROM A PRACTICAL STANDPOINT AND UNFUNDABLE FROM A RED INK FEDERAL STANDPOINT, BUT SEEM TO HAVE THE UNSPOKED DESIRE TO RETURN YOSEMITE TO THE EXCLUSIVE, VS INCLUSIVE, PLAY GROUND OF THE RICH,,,MID-PRICE LODGING AT YOSEMITE LODGE IS BEING REMOVED AND INEXPENSIVE ACCOMODATIONS OF THE 2 BEST CAMPGROUNDS, UPPER AND LOWER RIVER HAVE ALREADY BEEN PERMANENTLY CLOSED, AND MORE AT CURRY VILLAGE ARE TO BE CLOSED BECAUSE " THEY ARE ON A NATURAL FLOOD PLAIN" WHEN THE VALLEY FLOOR HAS ALWAYS BEEN A NATURAL FLOOD PLAIN !, WITH OR WITHOUT THE WHITE MAN DYNAMITING THE NATURAL TERMINAL MORAINE AT EL CAPITAN, OR THE RECENT REMOVAL OF THE POWER DAM JUST BELOW BRIDALVEIL FALLS AT THE JUNCTION OF HWY 140 AND 120,,,YOU DON'T SEE ANY REMOVAL OF CABINS BEHIND THE EXPENSIVE AHWAHNEE HOTEL THAT ARE ON THE VALLEY'S NATURAL FLOOD PLAIN, DO YOU, RICH BASTARDS ?
AND I WOULD LIKE TO BLAME OUR CALLOUS AND HEARTLESS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN IT'S CURRENT ADMINISTRATION,,,THE YNP GATE FEE JUMPED SEVERAL YEARS BACK FROM $5 /CAR TO $20/CAR IN ONE HUGE STEP,,,MONEY SIPHONED OFF THE WASH,D.C., NO DOUBT,,,AND MONEY TO KEEP THE WORKING POOR AMERICAN CITIZENS AND SHRINKING MIDDLE CLASS THAT NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT ANYMORE AWAY,,,
PLUS OTHER PRICES INSIDE YOSEMITE ARE SKYROCKETING ,NOT THAT THE 20-30 % RICH BASTARDS OF THE "UNITED" STATES WOULD EVEN FEEL IT,,,A BREAKFAST AT THE AHWAHNEE HOTEL OF PANCAKES USE TO BE AN AFFORDABLE TREAT FOR THE AMERICAN CASH UNDERCLASSES AT LESS THAN $12-15,,,,NOW IT IS ABOUT $20 IF YOU JUST ORDER PANCAKES, THE CHEAPEST ITEM ON THE BREAKFAST MENU,AND FREE TAP WATER,,,OUTRAGEOUS ELITISM !! THERE HAVE BEEN FOR DECADES THESE NPS-INAPPROPRIATE SIGNS INSIDE THE AHWAHNEE HOTEL THAT THE "HOTEL IS FOR THE HOTEL GUESTS",,,AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS ALLOW THIS CODDLING OF THE RICH, WHEN WE SHOULD BE TAXING THE HECK OUT OF THEM AND THOSE SCURRILOUS "AMERICAN" CORPORATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO AVOID ALL FEDERAL TAXES BY MOVING THEIR HEADQUARTERS OVERSEAS/OFFSHORE TO CORRUPT BURMUDA OR THE CAYMAN ISLANDS,,,
LASTLY I WOULD LIKE TO BLAME THE REGISTER AND NOT REGISTERED AMERICAN VOTER FOR BEING SO LAZY WITH ITS CITIZENSHIP RESPONSIBLITY,SPENDING ALL ITS FOCUS ON MAKING MONEY AND SELFFISH PERSUITS OR TAKING CARE OF THEIR FAMILIES, AND FORGETTING TO VOTE RESPONSIBLY EVERY TIME AND TAKE CARE OF THIS GOVERNMENT OF THE RICH, BY THE RICH, FOR THE RICH REVOLUTION THREAT TO OUR AMERICAN PUBLIC DEMOCRACY.
PLEASE, WAKE UP AMERICA, AND SMELL THE RICH ROTTING OF OUR TREASURES AND ACCESS TO SPECIAL PLACES LIKE YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK.
WE MAY BE A NATION OF WANTA- BE -RICH BUT WORKING POOR AND MIDDLE INCOME PEOPLES, BUT HOPEFULLY WE HAVE NOT SUCCUMBED TO THE SICK ANTI-DEMOCRACY ELITISM OF COUNTRIES LIKE ENGLAND AND INDIA, WHERE THERE ARE THE RICH AND THE "UNTOUCHABLE" COMMON WORKERS ,WITH LITTLE OR SHRINKING MIDDLECLASSES.