The National Weather Service is a WASTE OF MONEY!

[KansasVoter]

Give me a break! 96% of the time the weather here in Kansas is
fine. Why in the hell are taxpayers paying millions a year for
Radar and weathermen?

We get maybe 10-15 days of bad weather a year. Some bad snow
and a few tornadoes now and then. 

And how much money is wasted on Tornado Watches when 90% of
the time no tornado shows up? 

Instead of weather offices funded by the taxpayers why not
just have the people who live in the city look out the damn
window and warn people when bad weather is coming?? Doesn't
that make sense??

The NWS is another example of the government sticking their
nose in where it should not be!!

Also, base on my research with Bobby Jindal, Tornadoes are
really not a threat anymore. Look at the chart below. All of
the top 10 worst killer Tornadoes happened BEFORE 1955!!! So
it seems like tornados are no longer dangerous! Not one in the
top 10 list happened in the last 55 years!!!! And we still are
building Doppler radars even though Tornadoes are no longer
killing a lot of people!!! 

Please contact your senator tomorrow and ask that the NWS and
any other government group that spends money on stupid things
stop spending our money!!! 

Rank Where        Date           Time   Deaths
1    MO-IL-IN	March 18, 1925	1:01PM	  695	
2    LA-MS	May 7, 1840	1:45 PM	  317	
3    MO-IL	May 27, 1896	6:30PM	  255	
4    MS	        April 5, 1936	8:55 PM	  255
5    GA	        April 6, 1936	8:27 AM	  203
6    TX-OK-KS	April 9, 1947	6:05 PM	  181
7    LA-MS	April 24, 1908	11:45AM	  143
8    WI	        June 12, 1899	5:40PM	  117
9    MI	        June 8, 1953	8:30 PM	  115
10   TX	        May 11, 1953	4:10PM	  114

[rucky]

1. If you ignore the weather, it will go away.

[pnwmom]

3. Right, just like those dang volcanos. They obviously blow up because

we're watching them too much.

[rucky]

5. As long as the gods are pleased with our sacrifices, we should be ok.

[shraby]

2. This has got to be sarcasm!

If not, did it ever occur to you that the death toll was higher then because there was no warning system?

[KansasVoter]

4. Damn you! I did research with BOBBY JINDAL!!!

[shraby]

6. You're good! Fantastic researcher that Bobby Jindal.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[smalll]

7. Exactly! A "National Weather Service" is as much of a dinosaur as NEWSPAPERS!

Who needs either of them these days? We can get the weather, and the news a lot more stylishly these days by Twittering to each other over our iPods!

Total anarchronisms! Like radio, landlines or free TV.

[Muttocracy]

8. or maybe people should be able to opt out - you know, pay less in taxes

if you promise never to look at a weather forecast, or take a plane where they use weather forecasts, etc.

[pnwmom]

9. And if you hear that the volcano is about to blow, you have to stay wherever

you are and take your chances.

[Confusious]

10. What is really sad is that I'm going to ask

Did you write this or get it an email from a reich-winger?

[KansasVoter]

14. Wrote it but I can see the need for the question!! :-)

[sufrommich]

11. I blame it on the ever increasing Nanny statism foisted upon us

by those nasty liberals. Gone are the good old days when a man would take personal responsibility for stepping outside to check the weather and if that man happened to see a tornado,tsunami,lava flow coming his way,would have the decency and pure masculine grit to simply accept Gods will and die quietly along with his loved ones.

[rucky]

12. kick

[PVnRT]

13. You seriously need to use that as a LTTE

Very wry and well done.

[mwooldri]

15. Yeah, like the Department of Defense is a WASTE OF MONEY.

Give me a break! 99.9% of the time our security here in the USA is secure. Why the hell are taxpayers paying billions a year for WMD, fighter jets, warships and such?

We get maybe 1-2 wars a decade. The occasional terrorist threat and rogue state threat now and then.

And how much time is wasted on those Terror Alerts when 99.99999% of the time no terrorists show up?

Instead of army bases funded by the taxpayer why not just have the people buy their own AK47? If a terrorist is coming, they can just shoot them.

The Armed Forces is another example of the government sticking their nose in where it should not be!!

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OK that's a start on the rewrite, you can fix the rest.

Mark.

PS: Personally I think we need the military. Certainly I think it needs some "reorganization" and a spending review... but we need a strong military, kinda cos we're like the worlds' policeman - in days before Bush we could just sabre rattle and things would go away... but Bush wrecked that with Iraq and to a lesser extent Afghanistan. (Iraq bad idea, badly executed. Yes good to see Saddam go but by golly there's a big mess there now :( - Afghanistan: yes initially but badly executed and not enough attention paid/resources given because of ... Iraq).

[KansasVoter]

16. Did you work with Jindal on this also??

[mwooldri]

17. Na, McCain. He says we're losing the war. nt