After last weeks Government Shutdown scare, I was doing a lot of digging around in the 2022 National Park Service Economic Impacts Report. There's a lot of good stuff in here and, surprise surprise, National Parks are GOOD for the economy. Really good, in fact. $50 BILLION good. Anyway, once I read that, I couldn't help but wonder why, if they provide so much economic return, we (and by we I mean Congress) doesn't fund them. That's what this video is about: the economic juggernaut that is National Parks, and the bonkers reason we don't fund them. Enjoy.

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