Wyoming closing 10 rest areas

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The store shelves are filling back up. Not much I need that I can't find. Even my favorite sausage showed up this week.
 
Amazing!we started out talking about rest areas in Wy and now we are talking about the cost of living in Ca.
 
B and C said:
The stock market says the economy is recovering already.  It will take awhile for the taxes to start rolling in again as people go back to work and start spending again.
The stock market took a big nosedive today.  My guess is that this will be a "W" shaped recovery, not a "V" shaped recovery and the states will be hurting for money for quite a while.
 
It could be zigging and zagging. I only looked a week ago because I got a mutual fund notice and I was curious how the covid thing affected it. It is the first time I looked in over a year. I'm in for the long haul (as long as I got left anyways). I'm not taking any money out so no loses.
 
Oh, and Wyoming is a sparsely populated state. I can't imagine anyone paying a toll to park at a rest area.
 
Did anyone hear about the appropriations bill for parks? More money for parks means more stuff repaired, cleaned, and otherwise open. The measure was expected to pass, but might have died during the night instead. No news on it.
-crofter
 
No it turned into a cost of living thread and California is no more expensive than the rest of the states except housing. And that’s ridiculous. Competition makes labor, services and consumer goods super cheap here. We also have senior prices everywhere that are extremely discounted.

But if I needed to I’d pay a reasonable fee for a rest stop in order to keep it open. It is your choice if you want to stop there or not. It’s sure better than closing ten places people need in an already empty state .
Despite fighting for the contrary I think we are entering a new era in this country where the government is going to pay for or subsidize less and less. And it doesn’t look like military bases and wars are anywhere war being shut down and the money funneled to national parks and dental care.

We can can pay or close down. I grew up in an area where the locals took up the slack for what the city/county/state wouldn’t pay for ie school, libraries, parks etc. Then for the rest entrance prices were put in place for those places that weren’t subsidized by local and yeah not super cheap. But it’s something I’m used to.
 
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