Pinnacles National Park, er Monument

What it will do is swell the budget and give some fat bureaucrats more money

I don't get it. Why this zeal to make everything a national parking lot?

an upgrade of Pinnacles to park status has enthusiastic support from local elected officials and businesses who hope that the national park cachet will draw tourists, especially the foreign kind, who now pass by unaware of the rock formations along U.S. Highway 101.

Europeans often plan vacations around national parks, but many have no idea what a national monument is.

"People come down there and say, 'Where's the statue?' "