Donald Trump, Elon Musk come for your summer vacation

According to tourism experts, early spring is the ideal time to start planning your summer vacation. Some of the most uneasy of us (OK, I) might even push the pre-bodies, as at the end of February or at the beginning .

The Lord knows that we could all use a headlight of hope right now. I’m just afraid that the summer vacation may not be anymore. President Trump and the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, seem determined to make future holiday plans as difficult, expensive and potentially dangerous.

In an attempt to clean the federal government of what the two men said they considered wasteful expenses, Trump called the newly created Musk chief of the Government Efficiency Department. Since then, the businessman behind X, Tesla and Space X fired about 300,000 people, eliminating and efficiently eliminating departments and whole agencies. If these terminals are (many are under judicial control), they would be the largest low jobs in American history.

And, although this cannot be the main concern, the end of the summer vacation as we know it.

Given a journey in a national park? Be advised that the dismissal of over 1,000 Employees of national parks Inevitably, it will lead to difficulty access to some of the most beloved and iconic portions of this country – the Grand Canyon lines and the headache of the camping reservation at Yosemite are sure they will worsen a lot.

The Trump administration He went back recently The throw of thousands of seasonal workers in the parks, after a wave of protests for the perspective of the dirty (or closed) baths, the garbage containers (which would attract bears and other wild animals), unpaid routes and lack of emergency services.

Even so, the loss of so many full -time employees does not complete one with confidence. I like national parks, but I am not about to venture into what can still be a pretty dangerous land, without the soothing presence of knowledge and high -qualified knowledge. Not to mention my feelings about the sea bears.

National parks are not, of course, the only potential travel destination. But Travel itself has made several big strokes since Trump entered the last month.

Following several recent aircraft accidents with mass redundancies at the Federal Aviation Administration, general confidence in air travel decreased. New aluminum and steel rates threaten to grow Already high ticket pricesAnd the reduction of the transport security administration, all promise to increase the duration of the security lines (while it can decrease the real security).

Oh, and after years of late, the real requirement that Trump has signed in the law during his first administration is To enter into effect on May 7. Those who do not have the driving license issued by the state or an identification card that meets the federal standards will either have to wear their passport while traveling to the United States, or they may not be able to fly. So get ready for those restraints too.

Musk has left very clear that its definition of “efficiency” is “reducing costs”, as opposed to making ordinary citizens move faster and without problems. His time can be money, but yours can be lost for waiting hours.

If you think you can avoid the whole mess with a road trip, well, the rates on Canada and Mexico are predicted Increasing gas prices (already hasty high in California) and Musk and his minions did not exempt from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration their mass discounts. Nor the railways and other transit safety agencies.

It seemed to be that safety was not effective. (Off-Topic, but consider this an important reminder that if you are pregnant and traveling, please be aware that in many states hospitals deny the care of women in crisis due to new antiabortic laws.)

Meanwhile, hotels and Restaurants face staff The lack caused by Trump’s new immigration policies and we know what this means: more closures and higher prices. Airbnb, already affected by criticism of its draconic rules, hidden taxes and effect on local real estate markets, is now Compared to a boicotincluding by the hosts leaving the site to protest the role of its co-founder in Doge Musk.

In other words, the journey almost anywhere in the United States will not be no doubt become more expensiveand much less effective than it is already. Your tax dollars at work!

Also, international travel has become more discouraging and not just because of the safety issues of airlines, fuel prices, increasing anxiety among green card holders or the fact that many transsexual Americans have seen that the designations of gender have been changed to the one assigned to birth.

Americans from abroad have often faced a certain amount of snobism-we are powerful, monolingual and overly in love with flip-flops-but with a president and vice-president already antagonized most of the continental EuropeGreenland, Panama, Mexico, India and Canada (Canada!), Disparen can be a little overcome. Especially in places (including Spain, Italy and Greece) which are already affected by the overturism and open protest.

Musk was, of course, noticed now and then participated in a yacht in Greece, but is in the highlighting that he does not think much about the holidays (or a working week of 40 hours.) Can afford to go in Safety for a summer holiday bothers him at all. But Trump owns hotels for the sake of heaven. In the first 28 days in office he spent 12 nights at his home at Mar-A-Lago and some of those days Golf.

Americans work more – longer hours with fewer daily breaks – than any other wealthy country including Japan. Our full -time employees are eligible for, on average, for half many holidays paid as their European counterparts and, according to Pew research center, 46% of them do not use PTO in a given year.

So it is not “effective” to endanger or make it more difficult and more expensive, relatively few and short summer holidays that the Americans take. It is heartless. And actually non-American.