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Why in the world did LLNL terminate technical experts? There are so many useless doofusses roaming the lab to this day, not to mention most of the spineless technically incompetent managers, how in the world did they decide to lay off people like the guy interviewed in this article? The super-secret layoff-decisions crew ought to lose their security clearances and be forced to testify in Congress about their methodology for determining who to lay off. Then, technical experts that were laid off should be brought back and put in charge of a new round of layoffs targeting managers only. The least technically competent managers will go first. Then the LLNS idiots. We will target a manager to scientist ratio of 1/50. We will be financially solvent immediately, no one will miss the useless managers and we can recover our mission of science in the national interest.
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check out todays modesto bee there is a article in there about the layoffs and how congress is worried that some of unemployed weapons physicists might sell there knowledge to the highest bidder; congressman McNerney in the article is wondering what did NNSA and DOE do to the labs.
Modesto bee page A7 06-04-08
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When the Soviet Union went under, didn't we start a program to keep their unemployed weapons scientists busy, to keep "brain drain" under control? Maybe we can ask the Russians to start a program for LANL and LLNL! Hey, what goes around, comes around. Aren't they awash in petro-dollars (or petro-rubles) these days? And aren't they concerned about US weapons scientist brain-drain?
When it comes to government, never attribute to stupidity when it could be malice.
The powers that be don't care about nuclear weapons, or science research, or energy independance. Why? Because that's what people voted for.
In their mind, LLNL is about as useful as a buggy-whip factory. So why should they do anything but get rid of the thing?
Before anyone thinks I don't care about the people or the projects - I do. I'm just stating what I think is going on.
This country does things like this every once in a while. Especially after a big war ( the Cold War in this case ). Disarm and get rid of everything in the inventory. That's why the US was so ill-prepared when Pearl Harbor happened. And it'll happen again, history is cyclical after all.
Conclusion:
They don't care about these people/families losing their livelihood, but they care who are you going to work for?
WHAT???
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