Alabama for Sale!!!!!

   

 

If State officials are serious about closing fifteen state parks because they can't afford to run them, how about just selling them. 
Just think how much money the state could raise for the poor General Fund!

And it would leapfrog the scare tactic steps being threatened by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources:

.....on May 1, 2015, we will implement an Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) that closes several of our parks and park operations across the state. On June 1, 2015 we will implement a second EOP that will reduce the staffing and operational hours of several other parks. These dramatic changes will no doubt have a direct impact to their local communities and ultimately hurt our state’s economy.

Why waste time? Just some up with a price tag and auction off the parks! Here are the fifteen parks (that could be) set for closure sale:

• Bladon Springs
• Chickasaw
• Buck's Pocket
• Paul Grist
• Florala
• Blue Springs
• Roland Cooper
• Rickwood Caverns
• Cheaha Park
• Lake Lurleen
• DeSoto
• Lakepoint
• Guntersville
• Joe Wheeler
• Frank Jackson

     Some of them I am not familiar with, but the others? Worth a fortune!

DeSoto State Park alone would fetch a nice price from developers who could build condo towers along the rim of Little River Canyon. 

And think of the lakeside developments that could be built on the (former) state park property in Guntersville! 

And that Lodge at Joe Wheeler State Park! How much would it bring? Not enough? Heck, let 'em tear it down and build something more modern, like a condo development with three towers of 40 stories each!

And let's not forget Selma's Paul Grist Park....it comes with a nice 100 acre lake and lots of room to create a new Black Belt hunting area!



What General Fund deficit? We'll raise hundreds of millions, more likely billions. And after that we can sell the Statehouse. If the lobbyists haven't beat us to it.