The owner of a privately run inn along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina is back in business five days after the federal government forced him to close as a result of the governments inability to reach a budget.
Bruce O'Connell, owner of the pisgah inn, told Fox News that hopefully his business was reopening and by Wednesday it was.
O'Connell was one of the many private business owners who argued that the government implemented on their rights/ability to sufficiently make money, and the closing down of his inn was yet another example.
Congress and their inability to come up with a new budget affects this business owner because his inn/gift shop/country store was leased on federal land it was temporarily closed putting a small dent in Bruce's pockets.
Initially he attempted civil disobedience and kept his shop open, but his rebel days were short lived due to rangers from the national park service showed up and block the entrance refusing to let anyone enter.
O'Connell reports that there were 3 cars of 5 rangers attending to a 24/7 blockade to prevent any business of and sort until billing was possible.
Rep. Doc Hastings, chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, told FoxNews, “It appears to me the Obama administration is choosing to make this shutdown as painful as possible by unnecessarily forcing privately run small businesses to close just because they happened to be located on public lands, especially when this didn’t happen in the last government shutdown."
Wednesday marked the ninth day of the government shutdown and hundreds of thousands of federal employees are unpaid, such as veterans, federal land including national parks, and even cancer treating places such as NIH are unable to accept new applicants.
The government are relentlessly searching for a solution, but until then many government services shall remain on hold.
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