Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120404:14:20:00
Important things but don't have real protectors. some of that is weather forecasting and areas of the budget in which we do weather forecasting, so-called nondefense discretionary spending, they get chopped. right now those areas account for 8%, 10% of the federal budget. it's supposed to go down to almost nothing over the next 40 years under ryan's blueprint. if you starve something of all funding it isn't going to be able to do its job. >> we've heard it loudly, probably for years from ron paul but mitt romney back in new hampshire was asked whether states should take more of a role in disas...