GOP to cut 40% from hurricane forecasting

[HomerJS]

I'll go out on a limb any say the Republicans(see below OP) are getting the wrong message from God. The correct message just may be, keep screwing the people and you will see directly what can result.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=32196975&postcount=1


The GOP has a distinct history of cutting support for programs that are directly related to public safety and it comes back relatively soon to bite them and all of us in the ass.

Late 2004 the Bush administration cut funding requested by the Army Corps of Engineers for New Orleans. Less then 1 year later we had Katrina.
http://www.factcheck.org/article344.html

In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent. Additional cuts at the beginning of this year…forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring freeze

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/26/hurricane_funding

This is an old story: Before or after a natural disaster, you can usually find a Republican who wanted to cut funding for departments and organizations that predicted and protected people from said disaster. Remember when Louisiana governor and poor public speaker mocked the concept of funding for "volcano monitoring" and then a volcano promptly erupted in Alaska? And remember how after Eric Cantor pushed for across-the-board budget cuts for the United States Geological Survey, his district was hit with an earthquake? And remember how the House Republican budget cut funding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and then there was an earthquake and tsunami in Japan?

And now they want to cut funding to the hurricane hunter flights...

Hurricane hunters – which are flying into Irene’s eye to feed forecasters vital information about the storm – could face big funding cuts under a budget proposal moving through the U.S. House.

Rep. Kathy Castor, a Democrat from Florida, wrote House Speaker John Boehner on Friday asking for a reversal of proposed cuts to the program under a bill that passed the Appropriations Committee. She said if the cuts go through, it would amount to a 40 percent drop in funding for hurricane hunter flights out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. [...]

Hurricane hunter planes fly directly into the storm to measure wind speed, barometric pressure and other data that the National Hurricane Center then uses to formulate its forecasts.

During Hurricane Irene, Eric Cantor said we have to have budget cuts to fund FEMA. Interesting stance since we are in the heart of hurricane season. For the sake of the country I hope the Republican streak ends here.

 

[EagleKeeper]

The federal budget has to be cut; nothing should be exempt; Save the Hurricane flights; then take those cuts funds and add them to another program to gut even worse.

The time has come to pay the piper; both sides agreed to that concept.

 

[theeedude]

Penny wise, pound foolish, that's GOP for you. Yeah, let's have less warning for hurricanes and add to unemployment to boot.

 

[kage69]

With Katrina having occurred on the republican watch, and made even worse by Bush admin apathy and nepotism, you'd think the pubs would be first in line to make sure we are as prepared as possible for future hurricanes.


But these are republicans, common sense and concern for the public good don't figure into it unless a corporation or PAC is concerned.

 

[Genx87]

Shit, now we wont know when hurricanes are coming!

 

[Pens1566]

It's a shame the majority of those hurricane-prone coastal states vote R.

 

[dmcowen674]

GOP to cut 40% from hurricane forecasting

And now they want to cut funding to the hurricane hunter flights...

During Hurricane Irene, Eric Cantor said we have to have budget cuts to fund FEMA. Interesting stance since we are in the heart of hurricane season. For the sake of the country I hope the Republican streak ends here.

It's all part of their plan to knock off as many that don't vote Republican as they can and it's working flawlessly.

 

[dmcowen674]

It's a shame the majority of those hurricane-prone coastal states vote R.

It has nothing to do with those.

They evacuate and have flood insurance.

This is squarely aimed at those who don't evacuate and don't have a pot to piss in but they sure vote Democrat.

 

[werepossum]

The federal budget has to be cut; nothing should be exempt; Save the Hurricane flights; then take those cuts funds and add them to another program to gut even worse.

The time has come to pay the piper; both sides agreed to that concept.

Agreed.

 

[BoberFett]

This is a stupid thing to cut and I'm sure the savings are a miniscule part of the federal budget. Leave it to Republicans to do something as stupid as this.

But Democrats need to start bringing up some other places to cut. The only thing they seem willing to cut is the military, and they want to expand everything else. Sorry, but that's not going to work. Come up with some real alternatives.

 

[Genx87]

It's all part of their plan to knock off as many that don't vote Republican as they can and it's working flawlessly.

Clearly it has. I mean last weekend Irene caused 8 deaths. Maybe in 4 years another one will hit somewhere in the US and cause 10 deaths. Give it thousands of years and it may kill 1 million of those people who dont vote R!

I saw the memo. Cut budget, pray for Hurricanes to kill liberals!

 

[Genx87]

It has nothing to do with those.

They evacuate and have flood insurance.

This is squarely aimed at those who don't evacuate and don't have a pot to piss in but they sure vote Democrat.

People who dont evacuate an area about to be hit by a Hurricanes are morons. Clearly your typical democrat voter as you pointed out.

 

[Atreus21]

How on earth did humans even survive before we had hurricane forecasts?

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Clearly it has. I mean last weekend Irene caused 8 deaths. Maybe in 4 years another one will hit somewhere in the US and cause 10 deaths. Give it thousands of years and it may kill 1 million of those people who dont vote R!

I saw the memo. Cut budget, pray for Hurricanes to kill liberals!

Irene cause 42, so far. Katrina was almost 2,000. While I see the point you were trying to make I'm sure there's other things you can trivialize besides people killed in a natural disaster.

 

[theeedude]

How on earth did humans even survive before we had hurricane forecasts?

Do you want America to just barely survive, or you want it to remain an advanced, developed, country?

 

[Genx87]

Irene cause 42, so far. Katrina was over 4,000. While I see the point you were trying to make I'm sure there's other things you can trivialize besides people killed in a natural disaster.

Trivialize? As in claiming it is some republican plan to kill liberals via Hurricanes?

 

[Macamus Prime]

Shortly there after, the GOP asked Bachmann and Beck to pray harder for another hurricane,... to hit the city with the "you-know-whats".

 

[Atreus21]

Do you want America to just barely survive, or you want it to remain an advanced, developed, country?

I want it to remain an advanced, developed country.

Which does not have anything to do with our ability to forecast or not forecast hurricanes.

 

[PokerGuy]

What part of "we are out of money, we need to make cuts" do you dimlibs not understand? Money does not grow on trees. If someone wants to keep the funding for the hurricane hunters, that's great, show me what to cut then.

Is there anything other than spending more money that democrats support?

 

[Zargon]

Penny wise, pound foolish, that's GOP for you. Yeah, let's have less warning for hurricanes and add to unemployment to boot.

says the guy who wants us to spend spend spend

 

[Craig234]

The federal budget has to be cut; nothing should be exempt; Save the Hurricane flights; then take those cuts funds and add them to another program to gut even worse.

The time has come to pay the piper; both sides agreed to that concept.

What are you talking about? Progressives do not agree to underfund hurrican detection, or nuclear material control, or levy costruction, etc.

 

[Craig234]

How on earth did humans even survive before we had hurricane forecasts?

Was that sarcasm?

The 1900 Galveston hurricane Ron Paul said we should copy for how we handle disaster response killed about 8,000 people.

Answer your question?

 

[AMDZen]

As a left leaning libertarian, I can't say this is a bad thing.

The only problem I see is the spending that should be cut from 100 other places the same as from this one.

People who live in those high risk hurricane zones crack me up any way.

 

[Atreus21]

Was that sarcasm?

The 1900 Galveston hurricane Ron Paul said we should copy for how we handle disaster response killed about 8,000 people.

Answer your question?

Liberal mentality: Cut this program and CHAOS! The Weather Channel won't work any more!

 

[theeedude]

I want it to remain an advanced, developed country.

Which does not have anything to do with our ability to forecast or not forecast hurricanes.

In your intellectually lacking opinion.