NASA's workforce - NASA's mission?***NASA has serious personnel problems. Twenty-five percent of its scientists and engineers will be eligible to retire in the next three to five years, and, as the agency's workforce has been graying, few fresh-faced recruits have been coming through its doors. NASA needs to offer incentives to potential hires.
Scientists and engineers make up 60 percent of NASA's employees, so there's a great need to bring more in. However, universities are graduating fewer technicians than they used to, so there is a great deal of competition for them. While NASA cannot match the salaries in the private sector, it can offer a unique mission. As a consequence, a few additional incentives could be enough to tip skilled personnel into signing and staying at NASA - in spite of sub-standard compensation.
........While NASA scientists still have the ability to shoot for the moon (and further), their purpose can only come from the president. This is where Mr. Bush must step up, preferably at his next State of the Union. We again urge President Bush to announce his long-range goals for the manned space program during that speech, which will happen near the one-year anniversary of the Columbia tragedy. NASA is not likely to have a problem recruiting extraordinary people when it once again takes on extraordinary missions.***
America already has begun to unveil somthing spectacular. The people have awoke and begun to purge leftists from the government, albiet a few years later than the USSR and China.
If you had the good fortune to see A BEATIFUL MIND, a picture that won some awards a couple of years ago, you might have caught a glimpse of the paradigm that is opperant in todays "Global economy." We are letting China get ahead of us in the hope that they will accept second place with the rest of us. This hope is ill-founded!
I hope for a long-term sustained program that won’t be canceled at the whim of the next congress that gets voted in.
I think this is pretty spectacular.
If Ameicans keep shelling out the shekels for the Chinese manufactured merchandise we'll be fulfilling Lenin's prophesy. People gobble up all the Christmas decorations, all of which are manufactured by the Chi Coms, apparently not remembering that last year just before Christmas, they executed 48 Chinese Christians.
Yet we continue blithely along spending billions on, not only decorations, but on teddy bears, shoes, clothing, appliances, cooking ware, etc. etc.!
By the time America wakes up, we'll have morphed into a third world country ourselves making it easier to fold us into the New World Order.