State parks’ status

Re “The cost of closing parks” Editorial, June 3

Good editorial, and I completely agree, but I think you miss the point:

The grand Republican strategy is to “starve the beast” (shrink government to the point where it can no longer function), privatize the profitable parts of the public domain and dump the unprofitable parts, like social programs.

If our state parks become weedy, vandalized messes, it will only facilitate their eventual sale at bargain-basement prices to private investors.

If you think paying taxes was bad, just wait.

Patrick Veesart

Santa Margarita, Calif.

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Why not try to sell at least some of the state parks to the federal government?

Many of California’s state parks are of national park caliber. The glorious state parks in the Big Sur area could form a new national park there, and those in the Santa Monica Mountains could merge with the adjacent national recreation area.

Isn’t this better than closing the parks or, worse, selling them to developers?

Al Nyberg

Vista, Calif.