Ideas to fund and save our dying CWO Program

chachiman
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Ideas to fund and save our dying CWO Program Apr 12, 2013 16:31:49 GMT -5

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Post by chachiman on Apr 12, 2013 16:31:49 GMT -5

I am going to work on a letter to send to my congressman and senator next week to propose a few ways to keep the CWO program funded. The main idea is a weather safety tariff put on each domestic airline ticket sold. I am also going to send a letter to IATA and maybe NATA too and see what they think. There might even be a way to create some weather jobs rather than eliminate them. And it also would save the government lots of money developing the LAWRS program like they are talking about for FY2014. A weather observer from each station that is part of the CWO right now that is open should write a letter proposing the same. Get it out to all the senators and congressmen that represent all 120 or so CWO's and see what happens. We ALL really need to fight for our dying program!

If anyone has any brainstorming ideas to save our 900 or so weather observer jobs and ideas on how to fund us, please post it on here and let's get those ideas into Congress's ears NOW, PRONTO! The sooner the better! We may be able to even create some new jobs in locations where the ATC does the observing and save the government even more money.

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Last Edit: Apr 12, 2013 16:37:14 GMT -5 by chachiman

sluroots
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Ideas to fund and save our dying CWO Program Apr 12, 2013 18:02:56 GMT -5

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Post by sluroots on Apr 12, 2013 18:02:56 GMT -5

Take it to your local media, take the story to your city council and see if they can fund it. At this point, we may have a better chance going through each individual city if we plead to them that it affects their citizens, b/c the idiots in D.C. don't give a rats arse!

If the idiotic government wants to save money, stop the wasteful spending. The Senator from Oklahoma, believe his name is Coburn, lists 100 wasteful spending that our idiotic government does on a yearly basis. Cut 1 or 50 of those and we'll be fine. But no, go ahead and spend money on what kind of food our astronauts can eat on Mars. Did I mention I thought those people in D.C. are idiots!?!

tornado
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Ideas to fund and save our dying CWO Program Apr 15, 2013 12:35:29 GMT -5

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Post by tornado on Apr 15, 2013 12:35:29 GMT -5

One other point to make to the media: Some reporters were questioning how to count "saved" jobs, when Obama was claiming he created or saved millions of jobs. There are 900+ jobs that absolutely can be counted as saved if the CWO program remains in place. Since we have less clout in individual districts (5 jobs here, 6 jobs there), I suggest we nationalize this idea of how many jobs can be saved.
If Congress and the President do not save jobs critical to aircraft safety, how can they claim to have saved other jobs?

chachiman
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Ideas to fund and save our dying CWO Program Apr 15, 2013 13:01:48 GMT -5

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Post by chachiman on Apr 15, 2013 13:01:48 GMT -5

Yes, I totally agree with you Tornado about making this a National Plea to save our jobs for aviation safety purposes. Congress must be able to help find ways to continue to fund our program and to keep the professionalism that each and everyone of us maintain with the FAA.

Last Edit: Apr 15, 2013 13:02:19 GMT -5 by chachiman

tornado
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Ideas to fund and save our dying CWO Program Apr 15, 2013 13:19:48 GMT -5

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Post by tornado on Apr 15, 2013 13:19:48 GMT -5

Another idea: go to the media this week, and tie the CWO program into climate change. Why? Earth Day is a week from today! Suggest to local media how timely of a story this would be. Get state and university climatologists on board. The media could even interview NWS personnel about how critical good observations are to a good forecast.