Like it or not (believe it or not), governments allow disasters to
happen when it is in the interest of controlling their subjects.
On 03/13/2011 05:06 AM, Bruce Majors wrote:
You people are so silly.
Governments have had satellites that can read a license plate for
years and they fail to tell people about tsunamis etc in time to help them
Clearly what we need is to privatize these warning systems. The
bureaucrats are too dumb and lazy to be any help
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Mary Wilson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
And I sure hope they cut the budget of the NUKE power industry
here...we do not need more nuke plants...we need more wind and
solar power. We shall see what a friggin' mess THEY make of this
vital issue.
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*Subject:* [PresidentBarakObama] *? 2 ALL: GOP BUDGET PLAN WOULD
CUT TSUNAMI RELIEF & PREPAREDNESS - WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS?*
*Tsunami Relief Gop Budget Cuts *
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*Hi Team!*
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**? 2 ALL: *
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*GOP BUDGET PLAN WOULD CUT TSUNAMI RELIEF & PREPAREDNESS - *
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*(above): Right now, the National Weather Service is facing budget
cuts upwards of *
*$126 million but some feel as though safety will be the largest
cost. - wthr.com <http://wthr.com/>*
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Sam Stein reports:
"Thursday night's massive earthquake in Japan and the resulting
tsunami warnings that have alarmed U.S. coasts, seem likely to
ignite a debate over a previously little-discussed subsection of
the spending bills currently being debated in Congress.
"Tucked into the House Republican continuing resolution are
provisions cutting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, including the National Weather Service, as well as
humanitarian and foreign aid.
"Presented as part of a larger deficit reduction package, each cut
could be pitched as tough-choice, belt-tightening on behalf of the
GOP. But advocates for protecting those funds pointed to the
crisis in Japan as evidence that without the money, disaster
preparedness and relief would suffer.
"'These are very closely related,' National Weather Service
Employees Organization President Dan Sobien told The Huffington
Post with respect to the budget cuts and the tsunami. 'The
National Weather Service has the responsibility of warning about
tsunami's also. It is true that there is no plan to not fund the
tsunami buoys. Everyone knows you just can't do that. Still if
those [House] cuts go through there will be furloughs at both of
the tsunami warning centers that protect the whole country and, in
fact, the whole world.'"
A committee aide speaks to Sen. John Rockefeller.
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*Sen John Rockefeller (WV-D, above) says the disaster in Japan is
a 'cruel *
*wake-up call' to anyone going after NOAA’s budget. | AP Photo -
Politico*
/GOP budget plan would cut Tsunami relief and preparedness
- what are your comments?/
*Greg Dempsey
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST/
*Voice of the People
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GOP Budget Plan Would Cut Tsunami Relief & Preparedness
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Sam Stein <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/reporting/sam-stein>
huffingtonpost.com <mailto:[email protected]>
Tsunami Relief And Preparedness Cut In GOP Budget Proposal:
National Weather Service
*First Posted: 03/11/11 04:22 PMUpdated: 03/11/11 04:22 PM *
*WASHINGTON -- The House full-year continuing resolution, which
has not passed the Senate, would indeed make steep cuts to several
programs and functions that would serve in a response to natural
disasters (not just tsunamis) home and abroad. According to
Sobien, the bill cuts $126 million from the budget of the NWS.
Since, however, the cuts are being enacted over a six-month period
(the length of the continuing resolution) as opposed to over the
course of a full year, the effect would be roughly double.*
*As for NOAA, the House GOP cuts are even deeper. The House
spending bill is roughly $450 million below the president's 2011
budget requests. The Senate Democratic bill would be $110 million
below that request. The White House-allied Center for American
Progress, argued that the House spending bill would actually cut
$1.2 billion from the president's budget requests, likely by
taking into account that the bill does not provide NOAA the
funding increase requested for the Joint Polar Satellite System.*
*A request to comment from the Republican-led House Appropriations
Committee was not immediately returned.*
*Either way, the lower funding levels would force major
institutional readjustments. An internal analysis put together by
the House Democratic Finance committee before the tsunami struck,
argued that such cuts "could result in the closure of up to 12
forecast offices that safeguard American lives and property. Each
forecast office issues forecasts and warnings to an average
population of 2.5 million people."*
*The proposed cut to the Operation, Research, and Facilities
account would also result in a 21 day furlough of NOAA's employees.*
*The ramifications of spending cuts would potentially extend
beyond tsunami or natural disaster preparedness to the
post-catastrophe operations as well. In late February, a wide
coalition of aid groups* *wrote Speaker John Boehner, Majority
Leader Eric Cantor, and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to warn
against the major cuts that the House bill made with respect to
global disaster aid (67 percent cut relative to 2010 levels),
refugee assistance (45 percent) and global food relief (41 percent).*
*"It is shocking to imagine that in the next major global
humanitarian crisis - the next Haiti, Tsunami, or Darfur - the
United States might simply fail to show up," the heads of 29
international aid organizations wrote. "Addressing the drivers of
the national debt is wise. Abruptly reducing US humanitarian
commitments in order to save less than one quarter of one percent
of total discretionary spending is not. These cuts would imperil
the longstanding US commitment to provide lifesaving humanitarian
assistance for those threatened by disaster and conflict."*
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