GOP Would Cut Tsunami Warning Funding

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Reading the comments from Republicans and right wingers here, one is once again reminded of their lack of intelligence.

Marcus of CA 2:59PM March 14, 2011

God speaks to us through warnings and punishment in Nature ? I’ll skip that part of your delusions..
Give the hard evidence on “unethically constructed house” of Sarah home. Not we think, believe, or any other kind of accusation or speculation. If you can not prove then is not “unethically constructed house”. You know, innocent until proven guilty. God will strike down the house in a tremor as a sign if you are right.
Wow Ken...

Bill Hedges of MO 5:11PM March 13, 2011

....only where YOU live, schlitslinger!

Icanseeclearlynow of WI 9:03AM March 13, 2011

Days after the Republicans lambasted the stimulus loudly pointing out that funds were supplied to upgrade the aging volcano monitoring equipment at the USGS and this was ridiculous, Mt. Reboubt erupted, which Palin probably could have seen from the porch on her unethically constructed house. Volcanic eruptions are dangerous events that disrupt air travel and there is now increasing evidence for warning signs before they are about to erupt violently. It was as if God himself was saying, "Idiots." So, weeks after the Republicans voted to defund the tsunami warning system in Hawaii, He said in clear and unmistakable tone, "Morons." I am shocked that they also didn't vote to defund the NRC and deregulate oversight of nuclear power plants. That is truly strange given recent events, they seem to have missed on this one, but they can still propose it, there is still time.

Ken of MA 6:22AM March 13, 2011

For the next two years the Bo Tais of the world will stand in the way of cutting federal spending for this, that, the other.
Yesterday it was NPR. Today it's tsunami warning. Tomorrow it will be something else. Next day, something else again. As with the day after that. Dot, dot, dot. It's to the absurd point now where Obama and the federal dems not only failed to produce a budget to begin with last year while they still had the presidency, house, AND senate -- all three branches -- now they're even holding up passing a CR just to keep the gov't going for a couple weeks at a time. And head cluck Obama clucks that they've met republicans 'half way.'
Very poor choice to work a tsunami angle Bo Tai. There's a real-world tsunami of biblical proportion in progress as we speak, and it consists of federal debt.
P.S.: You know the dems are in bad shape when even the Times is openly calling BS on them:
How Flaws Undid Obama’s Hope for High-Speed Rail in Florida
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/us/12rail.html
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Separate to US News:
If you're actually paying a salary to Bo Tai, I think you have a good case to get the DNC to at least go halfsies on that with you.

dom youngross of OH 2:42PM March 12, 2011

angellight says "roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy".
No, makes money for the treasury and creates jobs:
“According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Bush tax cuts actually shifted the total tax burden farther toward the rich so that in 2000-2004, total income tax paid by the top 40% of income-earners grew by 4.6% to 99.1% of the total.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/lying_about_bushs_tax_cuts.html
angellight says "Reverse Robinhood effect.
Robihood effect is rob from the rich & give to the poor. So you want to reverse that. Rob from the poor to give to the rich ?"

Bill Hedges of MO 9:41AM March 12, 2011

Taxpayers pay GOP salries and their healthcare too, but to often they forget the hand that feeds them!
Money pumped into the banks helped prop up the system, but to sustain growth, you have to invest in people, in jobs, in innovation, in education, in infratructure and most importantly, roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, change the tax codes so that Millionaires and Billionares pay their fair share; get rid of the tax loopholes and tax havens so that U.S. companies do not place billions of dollars in other countries which takes from our country.
It is important to bring back the jobs from overseas; start manufacturing jobs here in America again. Stop using cheap labor in China and India which has robbed the U.S. Country and devastated it in attempt to weaken Unions, you have weakened all of us, except the rich. Stop investing in oil subsidies and invest in people, stop giving to Big Pharma and Big Insurance Companies which have raped the American people of their hard-earned savings. Stop blaiming teachers in an attempt to weaken education so our children cannot learn in order to control the populace and again have cheap laborers. Stop thinking about your own greedy pockets and think about the American people who have had enough of taking from the poor and giving to the rich - Reverse Robinhood effect.
Stop, GOP, pretending you want to create jobs, when every proposal is a No and your only solution is to cut, but you won't cut the Bush Tax Cuts, Big Oil Subsidies and even cut the high price of Medicines mostly used by our seniors!

angellight of PA 7:12AM March 12, 2011

Slash NOAA's Climate Change, Global Warming, Enviro Worry Fund. And while we're cutting dump Harry Reids, "Cowboy Poetry Festival" funding and the additional 100 million Obama gave to the Smithsonian this year - brings their "budget" to 900 million!
We're broke! Stop the madness! Or get the loot from Hollywood progressives - Start with Michael Moore.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 8:00PM March 11, 2011

The NOAA's budged in 2000 was more than what the proposed budget in 2012 was. And they did just fine predicting the weather. If I recall nobody died in Hawaii or elsewhere because the NOAA couldn't predict weather events.
This is the argument the left uses with education. Can't cut spending because the kids won't learn. Never mind that kids learned a heck of a lot more 10, 20, 50 years ago with budgets that were 10%, 20%, 50% smaller.

D. Malley of ID 6:09PM March 11, 2011

NWS has been underfunded for years. Saying "they can prioritize" assumes there's 28% waste in their budget, which is absurd. What would you have them cut? How about severe storm research; Massachusetts doesn't have bad storms at all, does it? Or perhaps ocean current research (through NOAA); we don't need to know anything more about the currents that keep Boston from being like Murmansk.
Oh, that stuff's important? Well, so is tsunami tracking and warning. So is tornado research. So are fire weather forecasts. Most of this won't get picked up by private industry because there's no profit in it. And since university research is also on the chopping block, our colleges won't pick up the slack either.
When was the last time a tsunami hit Hawaii? February 2010. I know because I was up in the middle of the night tracking that one, too, relying on the Pacific Disaster Center and West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center to figure out whether my company's people or assets were going to end up underwater.
You want to cut something? Cut the welfare we give to ADM and Exxon -- there's more available and the result won't kill anyone.

LC of CA 5:25PM March 11, 2011