Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Even in the slow economy, the good people are leaving. It took me a little longer to find another job, but the search was worth it.
Before too long, the only people left will be the bureucrats like LSO.
If you want to see what the Lab will be like in 5 years, take a look at B311.
The future that awaits the Boomer's kids will be even worse. They get to inherit the massive debt payments run up by their parents. By the time most Boomers have passed away, either the US will have to default on debt payments or the government will engineered hyper-inflation to eat away the debt burden and collapse the dollar's value. Either solution will plunge the nation into poverty the likes of which this nation has never before seen. The Greater Depression awaits.
Say Bye-Bye to your 401k or any chance of saving for retirement
This may not be so bad. U.C. used to administers our former retirement plan and did very well (a government entity) so I am not sure that the Fed administering the 401K would be all that bad.
Very well put. With that in mind I am surprised former VP Cheney isn't dancing in the streets with regard to the administrations budget proposal. He isn't of course (hypocrite).
And now some JA in congress wants to take away our 401k tax deductions so they can get theirs taxes first on your (gross pay ) and on the other hand they want us to donate 5% of our pay to a ( public pension plan ) PBGC, so they can mismanage it too as they did social security. All we have to do now to pay off the debt is take away your home mortgage tax write off, along with all other deductions; and then charge each household $10K a year for every child they have for the first 18 years. Not only can we pay off the debt but we'll acquire birth control at the same time. What a concept. By 2014 when a lot of us retire at age 65 to get medicare we'll only be $14T in debt with $23T coming shortly after that. I wonder how long we can stay the course. If I were someone of 20 years old and read all this I'd be protesting to stop taking SS out of my paycheck and surely after looking how they managed SS I would not be paying into their PBGC neither.
Most people haven't saved much of anything for their retirement. They'll be more than happy to take a chunk of your 401k to see them through the Golden Years. It goes in the same vein as the bailouts being prepared for all the home buying deadbeats. They'll get instant equity and ultra low interest rates applied to the homes they lied to purchase.
US savers are complete suckers. The message from Washington DC is to follow their example and to spend, spend, spend whether you have any money or not. Congress is watching your back, so don't worry about creating massive amounts of debt. Money is very easy and cheap to print. You can have it all and you deserve it!
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You all really need to look at all four segents.
Health Care in America and it's cost to the working class. All the things they never show on CBS, NBC, ABC or CNN
Most LLNL workers have been living with pay "increases" well below the rate of inflation for many years now. That and reductions in other benefits mean that we've effectively been getting pay cuts for quite some time now.
Congress, NNSA, and LLNL ULM should all be subjected to the proposed punitive messages suggested for AIG executives. After that then let's discuss any pay cuts for rank and file Lab workers.
Wrong anser bubba. We are already taking pay cuts, like < 1% payraises for doing three peoples jobs while plant engineering who went unionized is geting 6.3% and 3.X percent for the next three years. The rest of us are taking it in the shorts big time and you want cuts. You can take that crap to China. We all need a 20% increase after taxes to make up what they have taken from us since LLNS took over. We've done nothing but get the shaft.