Posted on 02/27/2010 8:48:46 AM PST by Starman417
Outsourcing thousands of top technical jobs to Russia & China as well as destroying U.S. lead in space!
The Obama Administration decision to cancel all further NASA development of new rocket technology including a replacement for the Space Shuttle and a rocket to the moon will also destroy the economy of the Florida Space Coast. In an era when Obama will spend a $trillion in taxpayer money to create a relative handful of jobs, he couldn't spare the few billions to save jobs in Florida and save America's reputation in space.
Those 9,000 space jobs include some of the most highly desirable technical jobs. Jobs that will now be filled overseas by our space competitors. The idea that space launching on the scale required by NASA to maintain a manned space program will now be carried out by private sector firms is laughable.23,000 now expected to lose jobs after shuttle retirement BY RICK NEALE FLORIDA TODAY February 26, 2010
...Revised projections now show that about 23,000 workers at and around Kennedy Space Center will lose their jobs because of the shuttles' retirement and the new proposal to cancel the development of new rockets and spacecraft.
That sum includes 9,000 "direct" space jobs and -- conservatively speaking -- 14,000 "indirect" jobs at hotels, restaurants, retail stores and others that depend on activity at the space center, said Lisa Rice, Brevard Workforce president.
Beyond the direct impact of lost jobs and skills, this decision undermines our national security capability. Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT) reports:
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Well, if the mission is now to monitor global warming... I think this is a good thing.
The Chicago Way enters the Space Age:
Destroy the red states of Florida and Texas.
But they can get jobs in the service sector. We can save a lot of money by moving the launch jobs overseas to Russia. It’s kinda like “free trade” for government workers too!!!
Obama, the anti-science and anti-technology president.
But he did exclude the Florida condo commandos from losing their Medicare Advantage.
The man is a menace without a brain cell to call his own.
Hey Florida, how is that hopey changey crap workin’ out for ya?
I live in Rocket City U.S.A. so this is not good news for us either.
I don’t think I can take 3 more years of Obama.
Florida voted for Obama.
Maybe its voters will be a little more savvy next time.
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Obama policies = anything to hurt America.
And good ole Bill Nelson is an Obamunist...Bye Bye Bill!
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“Obama policies = anything to hurt America.”
Anyone who does not see this should is either too supid to live OR is also a marxist/ fascist.
But so many of us do see it and WE can’t stop it, not even in Nov
Maybe this is part of the “reaching out” to MUSLIMS?
Why, we could share our secrets with them and have them DO OUR WORK.
The world’s most successful traitor mole just wants to give China a chance to catch up to our rocket program.
It’s very frustrating ....
Watching our country being DESTROYED and SEEING others trying to RATIONALIZE it. Look at some of the responses on this thread ...
This guy along with the Rat party is the worst imaginable choice to lead this once great nation.
Let’s be honest. Most NASA jobs consist of walking around in a white labcoat with a nametag a clipboard and a pen! This is a blessing for these people, for the first time in their adult lives they will have to get REAL JOBS!
We have been buying rocket engines from the Russians for years. Theirs were cheaper and more powerful than ours. The ones I am familiar with were use for satellite launches aboard various types of launch vehicles, not the shuttle.
You know that's what he wants.
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