Obama-nation! Elderly Couple Tossed Out Of Home They’ve Owned For 40 Years Because Of

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Obama-nation! Elderly Couple Tossed Out Of Home They’ve Owned For 40 Years Because Of “Shutdown”




They weren’t even able to grab Ralph’s pants.


Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) — The government shutdown is being felt close to home for some locals. They say they’re being forced out of private homes on Lake Mead because they sit on federal land.

Joyce Spencer is 77-years-old and her husband Ralph is 80. They’ve been spending most of their time in the family ice cream store since going home isn’t an option.

The Spencers never expected to be forced out of their Lake Mead home, which they’ve owned since the 70s, but on Thursday, a park ranger said they had 24 hours to get out.

“I had to go to town today and buy Ralph undershirts and jeans because I forgot his pants,” Joyce Spencer told Action News.

The Stewart’s Point home sits on federal land, so even though the Spencers own their cabin outright, they’re not allowed in until the government reopens.

Park officials said property owners can visit only to retrieve belongings; they sent Action News a statement which reads in part, “Unfortunately overnight stays are not permitted until a budget is passed and the park can reopen.”

Joyce Spencer said she’s alright in the meantime, staying with nearby family, but the move was a lot to handle as a senior citizen.

“I had to be sure and get his walker and his scooter that he has to go in,” Spencer said. “We’re not hurt in any way except it might cost me if I have to go buy more pants.”

The Lake Mead properties are considered vacation homes; one of the lease requirements to own a plot is people must have an alternative residence.

Regardless, the Spencers said it’s their property and they should be allowed in, shutdown or not.

 

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BUT


At Least Obama Could Escape The Shutdown At Camp David Which Remains At Full Staff, Deemed “Essential”




Chefs, gardeners, everyone all at the ready in case he needs them, all still being paid whether he is there or not.

Via Daily Mail:


Government services across the US may have all but ground to a halt, but there is one that remains open for business as usual: the Presidential paradise of Camp David.

The woodland retreat has stayed immune to the shutdown because it falls under the aegis of the Department of Defence, whose staff are designated as active-duty military personnel.

More than 250 chefs, gardeners, electricians and anybody else who keeps the camp running in Catoctin Mountain Park in Frederick County, Maryland, should the President drop by are not only still working, but are also getting paid, according to website TMZ.
Meanwhile, almost a million federal workers across the nation are sitting at home wondering when their next paycheck will drop through the letterbox as they wait for a resolution to the long-running dispute.

 

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Feds To 60 Lake Mead Families: Get Out




Update to this story. Of course, every MSM story, including this one, blames “Congress” as though it were a unified entity, and fails to note who actually is making these decisions-hint, it isn’t Congress.

Note the governments simple assertion that these people don’t have a right to be in their own homes. “Everyone who lives in them are considered visitors”. No, dear heart, they OWN these homes.

These homes are NOT costing any more money by being occupied, indeed, as in most other cases, the effort to keep people out is costing more money. So why are the people being thrown out? To cause pain. If Obama didn’t do things like this, most would barely notice the government shutdown of 17%.

One of the victims of this insanity, Bob Hitchcock, is wearing an appropriate shirt.

Via Las Vegas Review Journal:


Bob Hitchcock is in his “least favorite place” these days — inside his landlocked Las Vegas home instead of at his cabin on the North Shore of Lake Mead, tooling around with old engines in his garage.

He’s one of an estimated 60 families with vacation homes along the lake who were given notice by the National Park Service earlier this week to gather their stuff and leave, according to Christie Vanover, a spokeswoman for the Lake Mead Recreational Area.

The homes — from Stewart’s Point on the north to Katherine’s Landing and Temple Bar on the south — sit on federal land.

As a result, the federal government shutdown left Hitchcock just 24 hours to evacuate his two-bedroom, two bath cabin in Stewart’s Point, about 70 miles northeast of Las Vegas.

Although Vanover couldn’t put an exact number on how many residents were actually living in their vacation homes at the time of the government’s closure, she wanted to make one thing clear: “They are all vacation homes and everybody who lives in them are considered visitors,” she said. “If anybody needs to gather their personal belongings, we’re not going to deny them access. They can go do that. They just can’t spend the nights there or have barbecues during the day.

“They need to get in and get out.”