CantorQuake: Trembling at the Heart of GOP Claims We Don’t Need Government

[Cha]

Quote:Posted on August 23, 2011 by emptywheel
Back in March, after the Japanese earthquake, Eric Cantor defended Republican plans to cut funding from the USGS and warning systems to help in case of a disaster.

This is the epicenter of the freak 5.9 Richter earthquake that just hit Virginia.

One of Two Power Plants in Cantor's District..the other at the link.


Partial Map of Cantor's District

>More on..Apparently, budget cuts in the 1990s led to the removal of seismic equipment at the North Anna plant in Virginia..<
http://www.emptywheel.net/2011/08/23/can...overnment/

[jaxx]

Remember Joplin....any money from the government has to be offset with cuts. Per Cantor.

[There Is No Spoon]

Cantor is shit.