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2008-06-04 Home Front: Politix

Layoffs at nuke lab stir fears of a brain drain

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Posted by gorb 2008-06-04 03:40|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Congress is moaning but Congress cut their budget. You can't have it both ways.

California's Senators and many of it's Congressmen are worthless to Californians and California's economy.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2008-06-04 03:57|| 2008-06-04 03:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Sheer insanity!

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-06-04 04:39|| 2008-06-04 04:39|| Front Page Top

#3 This is crap. How many natural American citizens do you personally know who would sell their expertise to Iran or other hostile countries?

Besides, how many of those layoffs are administrators and supporting staff? If we actually had a government that represented our interests, I doubt it would be all that hard for them to keep tabs on the scientists who might become traitors.

This just sounds like another scare piece that allows politicians to stick their hands in our pockets- once again.

Posted by Sninert Black9312 2008-06-04 05:08|| 2008-06-04 05:08|| Front Page Top

#4 how many of those layoffs are administrators and supporting staff?

You don't have much experience with large organizations, do you Sninert Black9312?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-06-04 06:30|| 2008-06-04 06:30|| Front Page Top

#5 The Labs (Livermore, Los Alamos, Sandia, Oak Ridge, and Argonne) were created to support DoD. Since paying far less than competitive salaries in Civil Service pay, the labs were some of the original 'outsourcing' nearly all to universities to operate and staff at market pay scales. That was when we had an Army, just a part of DoD, of over a million. We've watched the Army cut to under a million to just under 800,000 by the early 90s and finally to under 500,000 by 2000. Meantime these labs have been largely immune from similar cuts as their very reason to exist has diminished. There's been a lot of creative attempts to keep them going. Basically its welfare for the gifted. The entire program is now amok in political sustainment detached from mission. Functions and mission need to be consolidated and scaled appropriately. One if not two probably needs to be phased out completely. I'd nominate the Los Alamos site just based upon the culture that has devolved that has created far too many security lapses. The facility could retain its secondary mission which is storage of materials awaiting the Yucca Mountain completion, but the entire R&D needs adult supervision elsewhere.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-04 09:04|| 2008-06-04 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 stirring fears that some of these highly specialized scientists will sell their expertise to foreign governments, perhaps hostile ones.

fer gawd sakes...

fears in whom? The MSM "world citizens" who have no allegiance to any country?

Posted by john frum 2008-06-04 09:08|| 2008-06-04 09:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Ah.. Feinstein... figures...

Posted by john frum 2008-06-04 09:12|| 2008-06-04 09:12|| Front Page Top

#8 stirring fears that some of these highly specialized scientists will sell their expertise to foreign governments, perhaps hostile ones.

Thats the MSM and Dems/Congress projecting their own ethics onto the situation. they'd sell out easily so they believe the scientists would too.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-04 09:44|| 2008-06-04 09:44|| Front Page Top

#9 #1: Congress is moaning but Congress cut their budget. You can't have it both ways.

Sure they can, just find someone else to blame, and lie. (Of course)

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-06-04 16:16|| 2008-06-04 16:16|| Front Page Top

#10 grom - If your comment is sarcasm implying that they left the supporting staff and cut the scientists then I am amused.

Otherwise, I stand by my point - there would be few scientists foolish enough to turn traitor and provide the very ammunition which would assure the destruction of thier grandchildren. If we actually had a representative government, those few would be easy enough to monitor and expose.

Posted by Sninert Black9312 2008-06-04 17:41|| 2008-06-04 17:41|| Front Page Top

#11 their

Posted by Sninert Black9312 2008-06-04 17:42|| 2008-06-04 17:42|| Front Page Top

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Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-04 22:45|| 2008-06-04 22:45|| Front Page Top

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