Dubya's and Heckuva-job Brownie's FEMA was Bad?

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Repugs INTENDING to fuck up govt to the max.

GOP Cuts Disaster Preparedness Funds By $1.5 Billion

One of the worst decisions was to decimate funding for almost every grant program for state and local preparedness. Providing a total of $1 billion for all State and Local Grants, or 65 percent below the request, and providing $350 million for Firefighter Assistance Grants, almost 50 percent below an already reduced request, breaks faith with the states and localities that depend on us as partners to secure our communities. These cuts will be doubly disruptive as many of our states and municipalities are being forced to slash their own budgets.

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/27/gop-cuts-disaster-preparednes/

[Wild Cobra]

Cuts will probably occur everywhere. I'll bet you can find dozens of other programs to complain about in the near future.

[TeyshaBlue]

I love how this is couched within the context of the worst natural disasters in decades...as if there were some relevance here. lol thinkprogress. Funding cuts have no impact on the present. Let's see if the cycle of worst natural disasters in decades repeats itself next year. Then we can just call them the annual worst natural disasters in decades.

Anybody here think there wouldn't be additional appropriations as needed? Nope. Didn't think so.:rolleyes

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yes, $690B for the MIC, while cutting $15M for poor kids school books.

[DMX7]

God Bless Our Military Contractors. They make profits so that we can be free!

[TeyshaBlue]

yes, $690B for the MIC, while cutting $15M for poor kids school books.

Considering the Tx SBOE fiasco, that's probably a good thing.

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After Voting To Slash Funding For The EPA, Rep. Barletta Now Outraged It’s Not Doing More In His District

On Wednesday, Barletta sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson asking the agency to perform additional testing in the Carroll/Mill Street neighborhood.[...]“Frankly, this is unacceptable. The EPA’s own Web site indicates that one of the agency’s primary reasons for existence is to ensure that ‘all Americans are protected from significant risks to human health and the environment where they live, learn and work.’”[...]

“I was surprised to hear an EPA official basically tell the residents of the Carroll/Mill neighborhood that they would not conduct soil and water testing to find answers. It is absolutely the EPA’s job, and I’m going to make sure that job is done. The residents are scared, and they deserve answers and peace of mind.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/27/barletta-epa/

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Is there anything BUT assholes in the Repug/tea bagger ranks?

Everybody thinks every member of Congress sucks, except the ones from their district or state.

Everybody expects cutting taxes affects exclusively other people.

[TeyshaBlue]

Here's what actually happened:

The amendment will specifically cut funding for EPA efforts to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from stationary sources.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/18/republican-house-votes-to-defund-environmental-protection-agency/#ixzz1Na7NRqAJ

Here's how thinkprogress spins it:
Three months after voting to eliminate funding for the Environmental Protection Agency....

Is there anyone but gullible hacks/rss bots that read thinkprogress? http://www.audioandanarchy.com/images/smilies/fack.png

lol @ the flaming hypocrisy of bashing Fox news whilst sourcing thinkprogress.com