It'll come back to bite you in the ass...

[one_voice]

GOP Budget Cuts Target Tsunami Warning Center

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.

The Obama administration is threatening to veto the cut, and Congressional Democrats have called the reduction a "reckless" means of forwarding a political agenda. "Those who claim that global warming is a myth find the hard data produced by such monitoring inconvenient," Rep. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) told the Star Advertiser. The cutback to the tsunami warning center also recalls Gov. Bobby Jindal's mockery of federal money for volcano monitoring back in 2009—just months before a volcano eruption in Iceland wreaked havoc on Europe.

Similarly, Japan's tsunami may serve as a wake-up call to Congress' budget-slashing legislators. As the National Weather Service's union president Dan Sobien warned last month: "In the next hurricane, flood, tornado or wildfire, lives will be lost and people will ask what went wrong. Congress' cuts and the devastation to the well-being of our nation's citizens are dangerously wrong."

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http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/03/gop-budget-cuts-target-tsunami-warning-center


GOP motto: Science? We don't need no stinkin science.

[liberal N proud]

1. Sink or Swim

The republican idea for tsunami warning

[Tansy_Gold]

2. THEY DON'T CARE

Seriously. They do not care if thousands of people in Hawaii die. Or in San Diego. Or in Vancouver. Or in Seattle.

They don't fucking care.

Once you (rhetorical you, not anyone individually) have accepted this fact and can stop wasting your own energy and time trying to make "them" see the error of their ways, you can get on with the real work of shoving them aside and getting the job done.

They don't care.



Tansy Gold, who does

[TheKentuckian]

4. Our folks need to assimilate this crucial information or the hole will deepen.

There is no compromise, there is no bargaining, there is no getting them to see, or anything else except for destroy them as a "governing" party or be destroyed as a functional society.

[Tansy_Gold]

5. Exactly.

That's why the current administration's emphasis/insistence on "bipartisanship" and "compromise" is so outrageous and useless and counterproductive.

THEY DON'T CARE.

If you'd really like your eyes opened, get your hands on a copy of Erling Jorstad's "The Politics of Doomsday," from 1969 or 1970.


I've been saying this here on DU for a long time ---

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1591770&mesg_id=1592008



Tansy Gold, who will continue to say it, on DU and elsewhere

[one_voice]

3. Shameless kick..

:blush:

[Rex]

6. How much more does even the person with one brain cell need to see

to KNOW that the GOPukers simply don't care about humanity or have a single shred of compassion in their bodies!!! How much longer!?