We've ceded to them, their Austerity Talking Points.
We've ceded to them, their Supply-Side Job Creator Economics.
Now we've ceded to them, the Future ...
Well because, Exploration, and Discovery -- and all that Sciency Stuff -- It Just Costs TOO Damn much.
Space Shuttle Atlantis: Now, the Layoffs
by Gina Sunseri, ABC News, Johnson Space Center, Houston -- July 21, 2011
"This has been my life for 30 years, and it is hard to believe it is coming to an end," he said. Nelson and some of his colleagues say they understand the shuttle program needs to end -- what they don't understand is why there isn't a rocket on the launch pad waiting to take its place.
Politics, governmental and corporate, have always played a role in space policy. Replacements for the shuttles have been proposed, designed -- and cancelled -- since the 1990s.
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Space historians will write that on July 21, 2011, Atlantis, on the final flight of the space shuttle program, landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center. On July 22, 2,800 employees there were to receive layoff notices.
Who needs Rocket Scientists anyway? ... Who need Engineers?
Who needs Scientists?
They should have went to school, and gotten their Degrees, or something ...
Dylan Ratigan thinks we need a new "Mission to the Moon [which] will be Clean Independent Energy in America, or some equivalent" ... as he explained in today's show:
Link for the entire Clip about Jobs and Trade and Infrastructure.
Dylan Ratigan:
>> jared, is this -- for those who look at this and say, man i wish there was a political leader, a republican leader in the presidential field, the president himself, a democratic leader, who could seize the sword as it were and say we're going to create jobs on a mission to the moon. and that mission to the moon will not be the moon. the mission to the moon will be clean independent energy in america, or some equivalent. is that too naive? too simplistic to think if we just had a leader point us in a direction we could share this goal we might be able to get somewhere?
>> i don't think it's naive or simplistic. we need simplicity. the complexities of financial engineering haven't served us very well. my only caveat, peter correctly cites the import and export and clean energy is part of the solution. put both together you'd solve a relatively small part of the problem. [...]
And what's at stake if we don't -- besides Millions of Jobs, and strong Economic Growth to lead us out of this Recession? ... And most likely the outcome of the Next Election, will hinge on such NEW Job Growth, or the continued, austere, lack thereof.
What's at stake if we don't -- set a grand Apollo-like goal like National Clean Energy Independence ?
Oh nothing much -- just the Future of Humanity ... and our ultimate place in one grand Universe ...
http://youtu.be/...
Who needs Science, anyways? Certainly not the Conservative Tea Party advocates.
All they really need is Jobs ... and better paying Jobs too.
WHERE are those damn Jobs anyways? Those damn Scientists must have stole all the Jobs? Tinkering away in their Labs, pouring and measuring, plotting and planning, on their Global Sciency Conspiracies ... and stuff.