Theodore Roosevelt warned in 1907 that future generations “will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted.”

Among the many tragic consequences of wasteful federal spending is that it starves work that the federal government ought to do and that it has proven it can do very well — including the work of preserving and maintaining the most remarkable system of national parks in the world.

We need to cut the deficit, pay down the national debt, and lower taxes. To do any of them we have to stop wasting federal money on things the government shouldn’t do and those it does badly. The National Park Service isn’t one of them.

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