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Many of us adults in the room saw this coming and tried to stop it. Unfortunately those who didn’t want the “self own” were outnumbered by the truly stupid.

The next phase on this is to use prisoners, including immigrants waiting for deportation, and unemployed people as emergency workers.

They'll make a deal with the private prisons to pay the owners for supplying workforce when needed. Unemployment benefits will be tied to a commitment to "volunteer" for emergencies.

The parks might have to close with this level of cuts, right?

It's unfortunately predictable. IIRC Trump has been consistent about wanting to enable more resource extraction from of the public lands and did so under his last term. I assume he's going to do so again this term, it's mostly a question of when and how much.