Thanks, Teabaggers

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You want to cut spending, and reduce government.


A budget gap may soon leave a hole in the U.S. weather-data system used to make predictions in severe storms. The $12 billion Joint Polar Satellite System originally planned to launch a replacement orbiter in 2014.


The craft won’t get into space until 2017 or later as a result of a funding cut in the federal fiscal year 2011 budget.


A loss of polar-orbiting satellite observations will result in some degradation in hurricane track and intensity forecasts in the important three-to-five day coastal evacuation planning period.


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webbway said:
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Webby is a rare thing: an honest Republican.


His contempt for his fellow Americans and scornful disdain for the suffering experienced by those affected by disaster is a perfect example of the GOPs attitude.


Thanks, Webby.
 
People out here typically don't invest in things we see as unlikely. In Western WA, hardly anybody possesses an A/C unit, but when we get a heating spike for one week in August (not this year), everyone is left helpless, and all of the units sell out in the stores, and the rest of us are left to fend for ourselves. We are mostly concerned about earthquakes and electrical storms. In Seattle we live in fear of Mt. Rainier. No one in my area expects a hurricane or water-related disaster aside from occasional windstorms and river floodings.
 
Did the Tea Party elect a new President or is Obama the Democrat still giving the orders and


leading the country ?
 
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Did the Tea Party elect a new President or is Obama the Democrat still giving the orders and leading the country ?
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Poor Blabo.


Funny, in another thread you claim a Democratic Congress caused Bush to fail, now you want to pretend the Tea-rorist extortionists in the House are innocent.


Obama is in the storm zone, directing efforts to safeguard American lives and property, unlike your hero Bush, who was eating cake with McCain when Katrina drowned New Orleans.


And your fellow Tea-roists are holding federal disaster aid hostage while they try to get more spending & tax cuts for the Kochs.
 
Regrettably, though, the line on federal disaster aid from congressional Republicans has not changed.


This week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said the GOP approach would break from how U.S. policymakers have operated.




Whereas Congress used to provide emergency funds after a disaster, without regard for budget caps or offsets, Republicans have said they will no longer accept such an approach — if Democrats want emergency assistance in the wake of a natural disaster, Republicans will insist on attaching some strings to the relief funds.




In this case, the strings are cuts elsewhere in the budget.




Or as Cantor’s spokesperson put it, GOP leaders expect “additional funds for federal disaster relief” to be “offset with spending cuts.”












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Federal relief to repair damage and offset costs of dealing with Hurricane Irene could become a political battleground in Congress this fall.


House Republicans demanded earlier this year that new disaster relief be funded by cuts elsewhere, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s office said Thursday the Virginia Republican continues to believe that.


Rep. Scott Garrett agreed. Garrett, R-N.J., said through a spokesman it was the "responsible thing to do."


"With $16 trillion in debt and budget deficits as far as the eye can see, the last thing we should be doing is spending money we don’t have," Garrett spokesman Ben Veghte said.



MA’s disaster fund covers a variety of costs, including emergency workers’ overtime, repairs to public works such as roads and utilities, and temporary housing for victims.



Fifteen New Jersey counties buried by a post-Christmas blizzard last year, for example, received $19 million this year from the disaster fund.


FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate said last week that the fund has about $900 million available, though the agency is still paying for damage from this year’s deadly tornadoes in Alabama and Missouri.



Congress would have to step in if Irene’s damages deplete the fund, a situation that has happened following major hurricanes in the past.




http://news.bostonherald.com/news/u...uire_cuts_elsewhere/srvc=home&position=recent
 
Pretty sure if a hurricane is severe enough we'll know it's a pretty big deal. We need to spend 12 billion dollars to tell us a giant hurricane is going to wreck our towns?

This is the problem with a lot of liberals, they think with their hearts and nto their minds. if we had unlimited money would I support these satellites? hell yes I would. But you need to learn to prioritize. And right now trying to figure out if a hurricane has 200 mile winds or 220 mile winds isn't where we should be focusing our energy.

There is a reason why most liberals aren't business majors.
 
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