[muawiyah]

I believe the point was that things like UGS appropriations are more properly put into the annual budget rather than in an emergency economic stimulation package.

The volcanoes are going to do what they do monitored or not, and although a little advanced warning would be good, all that's going to do is save a handful of human lives, not particularly help the economy.

[Gondring]

I believe the point was that things like UGS appropriations are more properly put into the annual budget rather than in an emergency economic stimulation package.

He should have stated that; instead, he sounded like he was proud to be ignorant.

[WOSG]

“The volcanoes are going to do what they do monitored or not”

We can already monitor volcanoes. Throwing money at Govt project and spending like drunken sailors on pet projects, THEN turning around and taxing American small business into bankruptcy AND saddling the next generation with the debt AND then hectoring us about ‘fiscal responsibility’ is so brazenly wrong, lying, dishonest and dishonorable ... I have to think its a plot to destroy the Republican party by making all our heads explode.

If you cant figure out how wrong this all is, you’ve not gotten the Obama economy smack in the head.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

To #5: Your are absolutely correct. Money for volcano monitoring belongs in the US Geological Survey budget, or in the Dept. of the Interior budget, or NOAA (stretching it a bit); or the Bureau of Land Management (Interior); or NASA (for observations from space).

Another boondoogle from Obie Wonton KeBama