Lets Double NOAA's Budget

[kevin]

I did a search and I believe that NOAAs 2005 buget is 3.4 billion dollars, and if someone could find an official source stating that I would be very appreciative.

If we assume 100,000,000 taxpayers that means our share is 34 dollars a year. I'm willing to give another 34 dollars to the federal government every year so that they can enhance the science of weather forecasting and advance science in other areas. And we know that isn't how it works. We pay much less than that since there are rich individuals and corporations which pay the majority of taxes.

Lets double the budget. None of this Santorum bs, lets give the NHC and all NOAA branches the ability to better serve our nation.

Comments, criticisms?

[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]

Let's not! If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Let's try and balance the budget first before we talk about doubling budgets.

[kevin]

Do you have any idea what a little sum 3.4 billion is in the scheme of fiscal spending? Our budget will never be balanced, and especially not with democrats or republicans in office. If we're going to put 400 billion into the military, and if we're going to put more than that into entitlement programs, and if billions can go into the pet projects of federal and state legislatures, then I believe we can afford to cut pork in the interests of predicting these storms.

And if it ain't broke don't fix it is a good way to postponing a breakdown. We need better systems for recording atmospheric and oceanic data, so that we can better predict these beasts. Better model damage scenarios, and better prepare municipal governments.

[BEER980]

I will have to do some more looking because I thought I read that their budget for 2006 was cut. Here is the budget request.

In FY 2006, NOAA is requesting $3,586.3 million in total appropriations, a net increase of $242.5 million, or 7.3% over the current program level.

You can read all about the NOAA budget Here.

[jburns]

Do you have any idea what a little sum 3.4 billion is in the scheme of fiscal spending? Our budget will never be balanced, and especially not with democrats or republicans in office.

A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

Sen. William Fullbright

Now for the record Clinton inherited a 290 billion dollar deficit in 1992. It dropped every year of his first term until in 1998 we ran a 69 Billion dollar surplus. The surplus grew each year and topped out at a 238 billion dollar surplus in 2000. Four years later in 2004 our current leaders, through a combination of tax cuts and run away domestic spending, turned the surplus into a 412 billion dollar deficit. It seems a possibility that "tax and spend" is a lot better for the country than "cut and spend".

***I am not an expert but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

[kevin]

Yes I'm sure when we're spending over one trillion dollars every fiscal year without Iraq, without Katrina, and so on, that an extra three billion dollars to protect lives and property is just dumb.

[Aslkahuna]

There is a 1 billion dollar difference between the House and Senate versions of the NOAA appropriation with the Seante version being less. Seems like the Dems and Reps in the Senate like to play money games with the lives of the American People-they all deserve to be thrown out of office.

Steve

[USCG_Hurricane_Watcher]

All for it...Let the Fisheries Enforcement side get some of that money so they can ramp up their efforts...

It's NOAA's fisheries regulations, but it falls to us to go out and enforce them because of the personnel in the enforcement side are spread way too thin.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

I say make the noaa buget to a even 10 billion from that 3.4 billion. Add forecasters to the nhc/Nws. Improve forecasting with understanding of the weather systems. Improve forecasting with the improvement of forecasting models,surface data. Double the Buoy's over the Atlatnic basin. In which will improve the data to upgrade or down grade tropical cyclones.

Add more temperature stations. In end the satellite black out for good with more satellite. Also double the recon planes...More radar!

10 billion should be a good number. In it will save lifes,Improve foreacst,In do more then alot of the pork projects could ever wish for.

[f5]

when need better wind speed equipment so we won't have an intensity debate.