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GOP rebublicans and Disaster Relief Cuts

flounder

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GOP Convention Under Storm Threat Creates Opening For Democrats On Disaster Relief Cuts


Posted: 08/27/2012 12:08 pm



TAMPA, Fla. -- A new online ad campaign launched Monday targets Republicans for proposed cuts to disaster relief funding and weather monitoring systems.

The ads, launched by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, coincided with Tropical Storm Isaac's pass over the southwest of the state, where it caused widespread power outages and forced the GOP to cancel the first day of the Republican National Convention.

As of Monday morning, the storm had moved back over the Gulf of Mexico, where meteorologists expect it to build strength before slamming into the Gulf Coast on Tuesday night as a Category 1 hurricane. The storm is currently headed straight for New Orleans, where it's expected to reach land on or before Wednesday, seven years to the day afer Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of the city.

The ad, which will appear on hundreds of thousands of computer screens across the state, features images of Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), flanked by another politician well known to Floridians, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio.

"Republicans voted against disaster relief," it reads. "Thank them here." A click-through web page cites Ryan's budget, which the ad says would have "cut billions from disaster relief funding."

The website also points out that the GOP's 2011 budget, which did not pass the Senate, contained nearly $500 million in cuts to the National Oceanographic and Atmostpheric Administration, which operates the storm-monitoring National Weather Service.

Democrats are seeking to highlight the disaster and storm services that Republicans have sought to cut in Washington. The issue fits neatly into their broader 2012 campaign narrative, which aims to portray the GOP as a party of elites who would cut spending on social services in order to fund tax breaks for the wealthy.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/gop-convention-2012_n_1833313.html
 

hopalong

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more BLAH BLAH BLAH from terry the flippng floppong fhoney fish, he cant prove BSE exists, his credibility is ZERO, gets his information (like 0ldtimer)) from very liberaL sites, but waht is worse BELIEVEs them and the takes them out of context

Eh phoney??
 

Steve

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what flounder and the liberals ignore is the presidents budget..


The White House's fiscal 2013 budget request for NOAA --

One that balances growing satellite costs with cuts to weather, oceans, fisheries and research programs.

It's a necessary evil, Commerce Secretary John Bryson told members of the House Appropriations subcommittee that handles NOAA's budget.

and by all accounts it failed miserably in the senate as well...

Obama budget would eliminate IT jobs at National Weather Service

In the president's budget, four of the six services under the umbrella of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (including the NWS) would see cuts in the coming year,

NOAA’s plan to eliminate 122 ITO positions came under attack during a hearing on NOAA’s FY 13 budget request on Tuesday, March 20. The Chairman of the Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Subcommittee, Frank Wolf (R-VA) and the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee (most senior Democrat) Chaka Fattah (D-PA) both expressed their objections to eliminating the ITOs during their questioning of NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco.

funny how the left ignores the cuts Obama requested..

and the fact that the budgets are less the 93 million apart.. and both are an increase over last years bloated spending..
 

Steve

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ooops.. just another 'weather scandal"

NOAA’S BIZARRE UNFOLDING FISCAL SCANDAL — National Weather Service Head Pushed Out in Frantic Damage Control Drill

Washington, DC — To bury bad news in Washington, agencies often hold off releasing until Friday; bad news is often held until the Friday before a three-day weekend. That was the case last Friday, May 25th, the day before the Memorial Day weekend, when the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) disclosed that millions of dollars had been illegally “reprogrammed” within its National Weather Service (NWS) whose leader abruptly retired effective four days later (yesterday),

How much money was involved and over how many years? Reports of affected funds range from $30 million to $100 million and the investigative team only looked at FY 2010 and 2011;

This mess unfolds in the middle of a disastrous FY 2013 NOAA budget campaign. Citing costs of new weather satellites, NOAA proposed a whole series of budget cuts, the most troubling of which were to jettison tsunami readiness programs. These latter cuts were not featured in public briefings but buried in NOAA budget documents and publicized by PEER. In the bi-partisan backlash that ensued,

hmmm,.. we never heard about that on the news.. NOAA under Obama has lost a $100 million ..(less then the 93 million dollar budget difference) .. and Obama was going to Jettison the Tsunami warning system..

darn.. I live less the a mile from the beach.. I would have liked to know that ...

but it gets worse.. the fact is.. flounders article is a lie at best , shoddy scaremongering reporting at the least..

virtually all of the NOAA cuts have been reversed in both houses of Congress and the Democratically-controlled Senate (with GOP support) moved the satellites out of NOAA’s budget entirely – giving the program to NASA. The net result will shrink the NOAA budget by a third –from $5.1 to $3.4 billion.
http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=1587&title=NOAA%92S%20BIZARRE%20UNFOLDING%20FISCAL%20SCANDAL

seems NOAA's budget problem is they can't run a rocket/satellite program ... so why not shift it to someone who can?

oh wait.. Obama cut that to in NASA's budget.. ... :shock:

so the real problem at NOAA is the Obama PPL

not budget cuts..
 
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