House GOP Budget Includes Cuts to Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

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http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/515616/house_gop_budget_includes_cuts_to_pacific_tsunami_warning_center/#paragraph3

The union representing National Weather Service workers says budget cuts proposed by the U.S. House of Representatives could jeopardize public safety and increase the severity of disaster losses in Hawaii.

"People could die. ... It could be serious," said Barry Hirshorn, Pacific region chairman of the National Weather Service Employees Organization.

Hirshorn said that if a continuing resolution proposed by the U.S. House is enacted -- triggering a 28 percent budget cut in the second half of the fiscal year -- Weather Service employees as well as those at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center could face furloughs and rolling closures.

[KittyWampus]

1. But DU'ers mustn't DARE politicize the events in Japan. It gives no indication of what could

transpire here in the US.

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2. Apples and oranges

Surely America can't have earthquakes.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Bobby Jindal led the way -- attacked funding for volcano research. nt

[LiberalAndProud]

4. pssttt GOPers, over here ...

God is trying to tell you something!