[net-gold] DISASTERS : UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT : UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY : LIBERTARIANISM: Hurricane Irene and the benefits of Big Government
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- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:18:19 -0400 (EDT)
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DISASTERS : UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT :
UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY :
LIBERTARIANISM:
Hurricane Irene and the Benefits of Big Government
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Hurricane Irene and the Benefits of Big Government
Dana Milbank
Opinion Writer
August 29, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hurricane-irene-
and-the-benefits-of-big-government/2011/08/29/gIQA4bnEoJ_story.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/4yl2f26
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Dont expect anybody to throw a tea party, but Big Government finally got
one right.
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On Monday, six years to the day after Hurricane Katrina destroyed New
Orleans and obliterated the notion of a competent federal government,
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate
offered an anecdote that showed just how different things were with
Hurricane Irene.
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On the podium in the White House briefing room, he recalled the satellite
images of Irenes path. Do you remember seeing the satellite, how big that
storm was and how close it was to the state of Florida? he asked. Fugate,
the former emergency management chief in Florida, said that a decade or so
ago, Florida would have had to evacuate based upon this track.
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Instead, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations improved
models predicted landfall in North Carolina, and, in fact, the track was
only about 10 miles off of where they actually thought it was going to
come ashore.
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This was just one piece of the overall anticipation of Irene and response
to the storm that has earned high marks for FEMA and NOAA. Like the
killing of Osama bin Laden, it was a rare reminder that the federal
government can still do great things, after all other possibilities have
been exhausted.
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Americans wont have long to savor this new competence in government. NOAA
has already been hit with budget cuts that will diminish its ability to
track storms, and FEMA, like much of the federal government, will lose
about a third of its funding over the next decade if Tea Party Republicans
have their way.
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In the spending compromise for this year worked out between congressional
Republicans and the White House, NOAAs budget was cut by about $140
million (House Republicans had sought much larger cuts) and money for new
satellites was cut by more than $500 million from President Obamas
request. NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco warned in May, we are likely
looking at a period of time a few years down the road where we will not be
able to do the severe storm warnings . . . that people have come to expect
today.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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GOP (Gas Oil Petroleum)
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David Dillard
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