It started December 10th 2007 and has been going since.
It was inspired by the defunct "LANL the real story" blog.
Best wishes to all the visitors (including those from DOE).
It is you who kept it alive!
After 4 full years, we all learned that privatization of the National Labs has been a fiasco and hope congress fixes the problem as eagerly as they voted for privatization.
May 2012 be a prosperous and healthy year for all of us!
Scooby
It was inspired by the defunct "LANL the real story" blog.
Best wishes to all the visitors (including those from DOE).
It is you who kept it alive!
After 4 full years, we all learned that privatization of the National Labs has been a fiasco and hope congress fixes the problem as eagerly as they voted for privatization.
May 2012 be a prosperous and healthy year for all of us!
Scooby
Comments
At this point, it's all about the money, not the national interest.
Not every congressman is corrupt.
We can vote in those who are willing to change campaign finance reform so that congress people are free from private interest!
I don't know about healthy, but I am sure that LANS and LLNS will have a prosperous year.
And while we may be hopeful that Congress will see the errors of their ways we won't see any fixes this year. It's an election year and nothing of any substance will be produced by the government, only rhetoric.
Does anyone think that Congress/DOE/NNSA will admit to making a horrendous mistake?
I don't believe we could turn back the clock, I honestly think that UC likes the new arrangement. They make more money and they have limited liability.
I am not censoring anything. This is LLNL BLOG for crying out loud and I want to sake sure LLNL readers dont lose interest. I receive complaints you know.
Your doing great! Keep up the good wrk and avoid the negative! Beem a fan of this blog since it started !
Brewster McFrisk
I still have hope that someday someone of promenence will read this blog and be able to take effective action to end this dismal waste of taxpayer money. Cancelling NIF would be a good start.
It will be interesting to watch who and where these planned cuts hit the lab in terms of layoffs and program closures. Just today, I saw this in the NY Times...
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"....Pentagon officials, in the meantime, are in final deliberations about potential cuts to virtually every important area of military spending: the nuclear arsenal, warships, combat aircraft, salaries, and retirement and health benefits."
Panetta to Offer Strategy for Cutting Military Budget
New York Times, Jan 2
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Can downsizing at LLNL, LANL and SNL be far off?
January 3, 2012 9:15 AM
Are you kidding? Not only "not far off" but long overdue!
Boeing Will Lay Off More Than 2,100 Workers At Wichita Plant (AP/CBS Seattle, Jan 4)
seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/01/04/
boeing-will-layoff-more-than-2100-
workers-at-wichita-plant/
Those cuts include reductions in budgets for nuclear weapons and for the research and refurbishment efforts that support them.
Large layoffs within the NNSA complex are now inevitable. The huge size of the growing fiscal deficit will require that these painful cuts be made and made quickly.
Large layoffs within the NNSA complex are now inevitable. The huge size of the growing fiscal deficit will require that these painful cuts be made and made quickly.
January 6, 2012 12:30 AM
I pity those of you in the Weapon Program that will remain working for the likes of Bruce God-win and Bretski Knapp. All the work on the LEPs will remain with the existing few people. Those of us who worked on the W76 LEP know what an absolute fiasco it was. You can ask Bob Little, if you remember him or can find him. Trying accomplish anything in the Weapons Complex is virtually impossible, expertise, capability, and facilities no longer exist, particularly at the "Plants". Good luck folks, you will need it!