Pic Of The Moment: Who Thinks This Is A Good Idea?

[EarlG]

Benedict Donald Wants To Fire 248 National Weather Service Forecasters

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[procon]

1. It might be just another way to silence anyone who talks about climate change.

With fewer staff and less research, they are reduced to the basics.

[sheshe2]

2. Yup

What could possibly go wrong.

[niyad]

3. this is from the Onion, yes??? PLEASE tell me it is from the Onion.

[Nitram]

4. Conservatives and Capitalists hate anything that everybody can use for free.

[Martin Eden]

8. ... unless they GET RICH from it

Like the entire public infrastructure included an educated workforce -- all of which are necessary for an economy that generates wealth.

[pangaia]

9. True. But I think we should frame it more realistically..

Things that are part of "The Commons."
because we DO pay for it it taxes...

[Nitram]

19. No, I acknowledge that we pay taxes for it. but even those who pay no taxes because they

don't earn enough income benefit from it. That's what the capitalists and the conservatives hate.

[Initech]

12. Like I keep saying - who needs terrorists when you have the Heritage Foundation?

That's their mantra - cut, cut, cut, then take the money and run.

[They_Live]

18. But it's not free

we're all paying for it. And I like it.

[Gothmog]

5. K&R

[kairos12]

6. Disaster Capitalism spelled out in law.

[lark]

7. Is there anything this freaking asshole won't do to hurt the country and the people of the USA?

Fucking murderer, thief, criminal, assaulter, misogynist, racist, hater, liar, creep and cretin.

[shraby]

10. Reagan wanted to do away with the National Weather bureau. When asked how people would know

when storms were coming, he replied that they could get it from the television.

[watoos]

15. Reagan was the catalyst

for this line of thinking that government is the problem. The right won't care because they are government jobs.

[efhmc]

11. Anything which actually helps people in this WH is

an anathema to it unless it brings in money to the big donors' coffers.

[cp]

13. Valentine love to NOAA

And every day.
We live in a rural area and depend on NOAA. It's an amazing, accurate service without all the scary hype of TV weather. Just the facts.
NOAA, we LOVE you!

[orangecrush]

14. Kleptocrats

think it's a great idea.

[Initech]

16. Climate change? Fake science!

It's because of this shit that we have to put up with fires and floods. But it's never the right time to talk about it.

[apkhgp]

17. This is the norm for 45 n/t