Marianne Williamson delivers her memo on how Elon Musk's DOGE is going after America’s most priceless treasures – national parks. #NationalParks #DOGE #elonmusk
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00:00Mary Ann, what's in your memo?
00:08I'll tell you.
00:09Thank you, Robbie.
00:11The historic mission of the United States is for every generation to quote-unquote form
00:16a more perfect union, for our ideals of liberty and justice for all to apply to ever larger
00:21portions of the American population.
00:24That would mean not just white, but also black, not just men, but also women, not just straight,
00:29but also gay, and so on.
00:31That's not DEI.
00:32It's our national creed.
00:35Today, however, an ugly trend has once again reared its ugly head.
00:39The idea that America belongs not to all its people, but only to its very, very rich people.
00:46The power wielded by our new multi-billionaire class is tearing at the very heart of our
00:51commitment to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
00:56We become a nation of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires.
01:02A grotesque idea that Elon Musk is busy turning into public policy.
01:08Nowhere is this more evident than in the Doge-led decimation of our National Park Service.
01:13The NPS manages 433 parks covering over 85 million acres across the United States, huge
01:21swaths of our country, from Yellowstone in Wyoming, Mount Zion in Utah, the Rocky Mountains
01:27in Colorado, Yosemite in California, the Grand Canyon in Arizona, the Grand Tetons in Wyoming,
01:34to Rangel St. Elias in Alaska and more.
01:38Our national park system is a priceless treasure that, according to an act of Congress in 1916,
01:45is jointly owned by all the citizens of the United States.
01:51And yet, oh you guessed it, Doge got in there and started doing its demolition work, firing
01:57a thousand people, and with plans to cut $587 million, or 17 percent, of the National Park
02:05Service budget.
02:07Teresa Pirno, National Parks Conservation Association's president, in a statement said,
02:13Quite simply and astonishingly, this dismantles the National Park Service as we know it, ranger
02:19by ranger and brook by brook, brick by brick.
02:25The purpose of the Park Service is to protect and enhance our public parks for present and
02:30future generations, not feed the insatiable economic appetites of private interests.
02:36And what are those private interests so eager to get their greedy little hands on our national
02:41parks?
02:42You probably guessed it, oil and gas.
02:46President Trump, clutching Project 2025 ever closer to his heart, prioritizes energy exploration
02:52and production on federal lands and waters, including oil and gas leasing.
02:57The Interior Secretary has ordered a preview of current oil, gas, and mining regulations
03:03on public lands, with the goal of reducing barriers to energy development.
03:09This is a clean break from history, where presidents from all sides have embraced the
03:14idea of preserving precious land for more than a century.
03:19So good luck, everyone.
03:20If you're thinking you just can't wait to show little Junior the Grand Canyon someday,
03:25because if the Trump and Musk administration get their way, that's going to be a big fat
03:29maybe.
03:31After all, the plan is that it won't really belong to you anymore.
03:35It will be in the hands of Trump and Musk.
03:38It doesn't mean to them the awesomeness of nature, the protection of wildlife, watersheds
03:44for clean water, endless recreational opportunities, economic drivers for local communities, and
03:51our responsibility to be good stewards of the earth.
03:54No.
03:56To them, it means drill, baby, drill.
03:58It means mining.
04:00It means real estate development.
04:02And all of that means the theft of public resources by those who represent private interests.
04:08Make no mistake about it.
04:10And this and so many other things.
04:13That's what they are there to do.
04:16Everything being stolen from us will then be sold back to us, governance according to
04:20billionaires' interests, thus made the rule and no longer the exception in the United
04:25States of America.
04:28Thomas Jefferson said, it is the general tendency of the rich to prey upon the poor.
04:34Here in the United States, we're supposed to guard against that, not help it happen.
04:41Our current bro-purveyors of crony capitalism, pretending, of course, to only be there in
04:46the public interest, are on a burglary spree of our public lands.
04:51It remains to be seen whether we the people will allow them to do it.