Zoo May Close, Kill Animals
“BOSTON -- The Franklin Park Zoo, the only Boston institution of its kind, may be forced to close and euthanize some of its animals, zoo officials said Friday.
Without more state funding, zoo officials said that they will run out of money within months and have to close both Franklin Park and the Stone Zoo in Stoneham.
The zoos would be forced to lay off most of their 165 employees and attempt to find new homes for more than 1,000 animals.
Zoo officials estimated 20 percent of the animals would not find homes and could be euthanized…”
This is just more more thing that we have to thank President Bush and the GOP for doing for the nation…All over the United States cities and states do not have money to pay for basic services. It is the same here in Miami and in all of FL.
Part of the blame for this goes back to the start of the no tax movement. It started, if I remember correct, in CA. I knew at the time that it was a bad idea but it was very popular and spread all across the United States and it still has major support. It also became part of the GOP platform and movement. It has been bad for the United States.
Now tax reform was needed and government did need some controls and changes put on it…but the entire movement just became an anti-government right wing fuck the system revolt.
CA, where it started, has been suffering for years and right now CA is giving people they should be paying IOUs. Many of those businesses will go under and then they will not be paying taxes and the employees will not be paying taxes and will need help from the state. It is just one sad fucked up mess that we can thank the right wing Republicans for giving us.
Now it looks like they will be the cause of killing zoo animals. Just one more reason that President Bush is the worst president of all time and that fewer and fewer people now say they are a Republican.
We have got to stop letting people get our vote by not talking about issues and by not being honest with us. The Republicans had this system down pat. They just used buzz words and said the things that would get them elected and it worked for a time. We are paying for it now. Looks like little fuzzy zoo animals will pay for it now.


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