Shutting National Parks is just another demonstration of how U.S. Government doesn't work for the people. National Parks are no high ticket item for the Fed, but they provide vast amounts of happiness to millions. Closings are a blatant abuse of the common man for the ends of the politicians. Politicians don't need National Parks, anyway. They go to their million dollar homes on Cape Cod or the Hamptons, or on a junket to the south of France at taxpayer's expense.