I was just reading some more on ol' George Washington Vanderbilt and his descendants. The Biltmore Estate is a private, self-sufficient preservation of an American treasure. It wouldn't surprise me now that they bring in over $100 million in revenue on everything they have going on there - maybe half-again as much as that.
Let's see. There are how many National Parks? 64?
In 2009, there were 2,372,500 vehicles entering the just the Grand Canyon National Park...at $20 a car, that's almost $47 1/2 million. And $28 million raised by the official fund raising arm of the park. But let's just go with the $47 1/2 million.
$47 1/2 million x 64 parks is ... $3,036,800,000. For those of you who are numerically impaired,
that's $3 billion 36 million 800 thousand dollars - give or take a car or two. From PARKS. And America is having trouble balancing it's budget ??? Shame on us.
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