if its rumbling, belching smoke, ash, dust, gas or fire; IT’S TIME TO LEAVE AND QUICKLY!!!!! LOL!
The merits of “Volcano Monitoring” aside. How does it stimulate the economy?
To be honest, with so many easy targets in the stimulus, I thought this was a bad choice by Jindal, just because that Alaskan volcano has been threatening lately. Imagine if ther is a city affecting eruption after Jindal singled this out?
I’m not defending the funding, but if you are curious go to usgs.gov to check out what it is about.
Don’t worry gevernor Jindal. America invented the automobile!
I can see Mt Rainier from my front room window. I have been monitoring it for years. It is a volcano, but inactive. WHERE’S MY MONEY??????????????????????????????????
I like Jindal, and I consider myself conservative, but arguing over which program is proper and which is not is a waste of time.
The real question: Is this Constitutional? Is the spending part of Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution?
By focusing on this program and that, we concede the larger point to the left - that the government should have the power to do whatever it wants to do, instead of living in a country with a limited government and strictly enumerated powers.
I’m sure that other people who live up here in Alaska can argue that a decent volcano watch program is a reasonable use of the federal government (I’m looking at all those clauses having to do with protecting commerce and promoting science - large numbers of volcanos in Alaska are right in the path of air cargo flights from Asia.)
However, I’m off topic. Is it Constitutional? That’s the question.
I think Jindal’s point is why is it in a stimulus package.
actually..I thought he meant volcano monitoring here in Louisiana..
it should be in the regular budget if its a needed existing program.
thats the point.
Here’s your warning. Stop living next to volcanoes!
$140 million sounds like a big waste of money and I live at the base of a bunch of volcanoes. Save the money for something useful.
Pray for America
“Ultimately most of this creates jobs or saves jobs that would have been lost” to recent budget shortfalls”
Like most of the trillion dollar “BIG GOVT BAILOUT”, this is nothing more than a huge added appropriations. If it was that important, they would have had it in regular appropriations.
It was/is a ‘wish list’ item that the liberals threw in there to spent our taxpayer money. The idea that this would stimulate anything but a few bureaucrat jobs is absurd.