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RandySF

(59,332 posts)
Sat Apr 14, 2012, 07:25 PM Apr 2012

Announcer 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?

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rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
1. Inconsistency and hypocrisy are the hallmarks of the right wing...
Sat Apr 14, 2012, 07:27 PM
Apr 2012

It's the pro-life lobby for war and destruction.

elleng

(131,171 posts)
2. Glad they've done this,
Sat Apr 14, 2012, 07:32 PM
Apr 2012

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.

eyewall

(674 posts)
12. That triggered quite a bit of outrage.
Sat Apr 14, 2012, 10:25 PM
Apr 2012

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.

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
7. Most likely, they blame Obama for using the National Weather Service
Sat Apr 14, 2012, 08:39 PM
Apr 2012

for CREATING the tornadoes ...

Odin2005

(53,521 posts)
8. The average person is unable to connect the dots between taxes and things like this.
Sat Apr 14, 2012, 09:20 PM
Apr 2012

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.

intheflow

(28,505 posts)
15. True.
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 12:01 PM
Apr 2012

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.

Auntie Bush

(17,528 posts)
11. If the weather service were privatized...it would be owned by a Rethug and we'd never hear
Sat Apr 14, 2012, 10:20 PM
Apr 2012

the word GLOBAL WARMING ever again.

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