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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnnouncer on The Weather Channel: Your tax dollars at work.
Someone on The Weather Channel made a point to mention that our tax dollars went into the forecasting and pinpointing severe wether in the Midwest. What do Kansas and Oklahoma Republicans think right now about government spending?
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)It's the pro-life lobby for war and destruction.
elleng
(131,171 posts)and good to see ads from Postal Workers' Union to the effect that NO tax dollars are at work in the services they provide. We need to get this new out.
liberal N proud
(60,346 posts)And you would have to pay for information about the weather.
SDjack
(1,448 posts)His effort flopped, and he earned a position as rated as one of the most corrupt US Senators.
[link:http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/rick-santorums-war-against-the-national-weather-service/|
eyewall
(674 posts)Kind of like the arrangement we have with big oil, pharmaceuticals and health care.
We pay for them to own it and they sell it back to us.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)Ian David
(69,059 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)for CREATING the tornadoes ...
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)And if you try to explain it to them it will go in one ear and out the other.
Hence the Teabaggers wanting the government to keep it's hands of their Medicare.
Had a conversation once with a conservative who said global warming was a hoax created by Al Gore. When I said it was presented to congress by NASA, he didn't know that they had anything to do with weather satellites. Cultural illiteracy is a pitiful thing.
Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)TomClash
(11,344 posts)Spend for us and no one else.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)the word GLOBAL WARMING ever again.