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Eric Cantor (R-VA) pushed aside criticism on Monday that GOP budget cuts would compromise America's ability to detect a Japan-style tsunami and help allies like Japan with their own disasters.
The president of the National Weather Service Employees Organization warned last week that the Republican House's spending plan would cut funding for NOAA by $450 million from President Obama's proposed budget, potentially requiring furloughs at tsunami watch centers. Cantor was asked at his weekly press briefing about the funding as well as cuts to USAID, which provides relief to disaster areas.
"I mean, essentially what you're saying is go borrow from the Japanese so we can go and spend it to help the Japanese," Cantor told reporters.
The president of the National Weather Service Employees Organization warned last week that the Republican House's spending plan would cut funding for NOAA by $450 million from President Obama's proposed budget, potentially requiring furloughs at tsunami watch centers. Cantor was asked at his weekly press briefing about the funding as well as cuts to USAID, which provides relief to disaster areas.
"I mean, essentially what you're saying is go borrow from the Japanese so we can go and spend it to help the Japanese," Cantor told reporters.
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because money > human lives
Oh, and our budget problems have nothing to do with the wars we continue to fight with a negligible level of benefit to the American people. Wars in which, by the way, Japan is one of our closest allies.
So yea, I'd really like to know what type of catastrophe it would take to wake the Republicans up from their dream that all our problems stem from the invented "budget crisis" that gives me flashbacks to 1995.
That, and I'd really like to know why the media refuses to call them out on the abject hypocrisy that they talk this way now but their enormous concerns always seems to disappear whenever a no-bid defense contract needs approval.
