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Title: GOP Budget Cuts Target Tsunami Warning Center
Source: Mother jones
URL Source: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/03 ... -target-tsunami-warning-center
Published: Mar 11, 2011
Author: suzy khimm
Post Date: 2011-03-11 14:08:26 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 722
Comments: 2

A killer tsunami has devastated Japan and is now threatening Hawaii and the Pacific Coast of the US. But just last month, Republicans voted to gut funding for the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center—a cut that would cripple the National Weather Service's ability to issue warnings about such disasters.

In February, the union representing the National Weather Service warned that the Republican cuts could place the residents of Hawaii in mortal danger. "People could die... It could be serious," Barry Hirshorn, Pacific region chairman of the National Weather Service Employees Organization, told Hawaii's Star Advertiser. The House budget includes a 28 percent cut to the National Weather Service that would result in staffing cutbacks to Hawaii's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which monitors potential tsunamis in the Indian Ocean.

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#1. To: lucysmom, godwinson (#0)

Damn those leeches, they should pay for their OWN tsunami warnings!

Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.

go65  posted on  2011-03-11   14:08:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: lucysmom, go65 (#1) (Edited)

Gov. Bobby Jindal complained about wasteful spending in President Obama's economic stimulus package - including money he sneered was for "something called 'volcano monitoring'" - Alaska pilots were grateful for such expenditures.

Damn those leeches, they should pay for their OWN tsunami warnings!

This is standard Republican thinking.

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Godwinson  posted on  2011-03-11   14:33:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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