Bush Threatening National Parks

On Sept. 13, 2000, presidential candidate George W. Bush posed before the Cascade Mountains in Washington state and warned that national parks were ''at the breaking point.'' He vowed to eliminate a $4.9 billion backlog in deferred maintenance.

Nearly 1,000 days later, the repair budget at Mount Rainier National Park, the tallest and most visited part of the Cascades, was cut 40 percent. That means that two of the park's most urgent problems -- a heavily used footbridge that's rotting and a historic cabin that's falling apart -- will go unrepaired.

More lies, what do expect ?