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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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This push is much needed in NNSA and the labs. It cannot be lead by current leaders. Will be new "Proposition 13" -style cutters.
The bigger issue is that the legislation authorizing the NNSA specifically prohibits non-NNSA (i.e. DOE) officials from managing NNSA employees. NNSA feds are only allowed to take orders from Klotz and Creedon or their (nonexistent) replacements.
It will take months to vet replacements and get them ready for Senate confirmation hearings, all the while NNSA, DOE, the White House and Congress should be working the FY18 budget request (released in March). So without a Klotz or Creedon, the NNSA budget request will be on autopilot as basically the Obama request that is currently working its way through NNSA and Congress staff offices.
In other words, if Trump wants to make significant changes to NNSA in FY18 he will need to have his NNSA political appointees in place and giving direction to NNSA staff on changes to the FY18 budget request - DOE Sec Perry and the Trump DOE appointees cannot legally do this directing of NNSA staff.
January 13, 2017 at 3:15 PM
Sufferer of extreme TDS. Sad.
I have seen it before on CNN.
Look in the mirror. After thebego kick, you pick yourself up and keep up...your imagined fears will not be realized, they rarely are.
Obama left. Trumpf will walk away as well.
Donald Trump
I find this hard to impossible to believe. The Secretary of Energy cannot give any direction to the NNSA, even though it is a "semi-autonomous" agency? This makes little sense considering the DOE explicitly has a major roll, legally and otherwise, in nearly all aspects of the labs. Your opinion sounds like some BS circulated by career NNSA bureaucrats to "trump" up (no pun intended) their power and importance. Its sort of like Native Americans claiming to be sovereign states when paying taxes, but turning around and demanding massive welfare handouts at the same time.
Donald Trump
January 14, 2017 at 5:00 AM
This is precisely why Trump is a very dangerous and unpredictable next President. The thought that he as Commander in Chief would order the military to launch it's missies to only determine if his nuclear weapons are "viable".
January 15, 2017 at 5:04 AM
He is "very dangerous and unpredictable" because of one of your thoughts?? Classic symptom of severe TDS.
Really? How about Fermilab, Jefferson Lab......?
Yes, the Sec of Energy cannot direct NNSA Staff, see the actually language in the Act/Law that established NNSA. Key words are "through" the NNSA Administrator in (a)(1)(A) along with (a)(2)....
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PUBLIC LAW 106–65—OCT. 5, 1999
TITLE XXXII—NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
SEC. 3213. STATUS OF ADMINISTRATION AND CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL WITHIN DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.
(a) STATUS OF ADMINISTRATION PERSONNEL.—Each officer or employee of the Administration [NNSA], in carrying out any function of the Administration—
(1) shall be responsible to and subject to the authority, direction, and control of—
(A) the Secretary acting through the Administrator and consistent with section 202(c)(3) of the Department of Energy Organization Act;
(B) the Administrator; or
(C) the Administrator’s designee within the Administration; and
(2) shall not be responsible to, or subject to the authority, direction, or control of, any other officer, employee, or agent of the Department of Energy.
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Seems pretty clear.
https://energy.gov/gc/downloads/national-defense-authorization-act-fiscal-year-2000-0
Typical of the attitudes in the swamp. Not to worry, the draining starts at noon on this Friday!
He's just taking his cue from Chico Marx: "Who are you gonna believe? Me, or your own eyes?" Don't say I didn't warn you.
A better question might be where have past Presidents (Bush, Obama) been at?
Yes the answer is (they were)shipping those jobs overseas (Globalism, Brexit). That is totally what the election was about (or partly about) and some people still do not get it?
It was about, "the Rust Belt".
Ohio,Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and yes Michigan.
The proof is in the pudding.
You can't earn someone's trust by asking him to believe something. You either have a reason (factual) to trust or you don't.
By the way, 1300 jobs is what was gained by normal economic activity in 1/2 of one day in mid-August 2016. Not such a big deal.
... and underground US nuclear testing resumes in 2020. Big changes are coming with the arrival of the Trump administration.
By the way, 1300 jobs serving fries doesn't equal 1300 manufacturing jobs. You do know that America lost over 300,000 manufacturing jobs under Owebama, don't you?
Likewise, the availability of skilled labor had little to do with it. Is 5:24 really claiming that skilled labor is easier to find in Mexico or SE Asia? That's laughable. The big multinationals who invest abroad do so despite knowing that they have to train their new foreign workers.
Sheesh, why is it that liberals lag so far behind in their knowledge of just about everything?
January 22, 2017 at 5:48 PM
No, Mr Average needs to pull himself up, by not accepting being average; i.e., get a good education which leads to a good career, which leads to wealth, and stop having kids you can't afford. Wealth inequality is good - it incentivizes people, or should. Where are the non-wealthy going to get money? I insist on keeping mine.
January 22, 2017 at 10:48 PM
Sounds like more of Trump's "alternative facts." Jobs did not "move overseas." US workers were laid off from manufacturing jobs because they were no longer needed due to productivity increases from automation. Workers were hired for overseas jobs and they are much less expensive than US workers (so automation need not be such a priority there), and that fact is not due to regulations. Simple economics. Companies are in business to make money, not to preserve American jobs. It's called the free market, just one of many freedoms Trump doesn't believe in (unless you count all the cheap immigrant workers he hires in the US).
Labor costs are certainly a big driver behind offshoring but this directly contradicts 9:34 first phony post attributing the losses to automation. In fact, these jobs were MOVED offshore precisely because it was cheaper to move the jobs to places where labor is cheap (and the cost of regulations is low) than it would have been to automate and keep production in the US. They moved not because of automation but because it was TOO EXPENSIVE TO AUTOMATE.
HOW CAN ANYONE NOT UNDERSTAND THIS?????
Here are just a few random examples out of many hundreds:
Flextronics Americas in Stafford, Texas, laid off 147 workers because the jobs "are being transferred to Juarez, Mexico"
Jabil of Tempe, Ariz., laid off more than 500 workers making printed circuit boards. "We are in the process of moving several assemblies to other Jabil facilities in Mexico and Asia ...".
Joy Global of Franklin, Penn., laid off 245 workers making underground mining equipment because production is "being shifted to a foreign location, outsourcing increased imports, articles and services".
Phillips Lighting Company's Bath, N.Y., factory making finished lamps laid off 265 workers because "production is being shifted to a foreign country,".
Honeywell Process Solutions, manufacturer of electronic industrial control units in York, Penn., laid off 110 workers. "Per company officials most of the work is transferring to Mexico."
Nordex USA Inc., maker of wind blades in both Jonesboro, Ark., and Chicago, Ill., will lay off 80 workers because production is "being shifted to a foreign country,.
Tyco Electronics TE Connectivity/ ICT Division in Tullahoma, Tenn., a manufacturer of electronic connectors, laid off 33 employees because "production has been shifted to a foreign country,"
Cooper Interconnected, will laid off 56 workers from its Salem, N.J., facility. "..the plant activities are being transferred to a plant in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico,".
Sensata Technologies of Attleboro, Mass., is laying off 16 employees because it is "transitioning manufacturing of burn-in test socket products manufactured in Phoenix, Ariz., to locations in China and Korea,".
Motorola Solutions' Louisville, Ky., electronics repair facility will lay off 55 workers because their jobs "are being relocated and will ultimately end up in Mexico,".
Omega Engineering in Stamford, Conn., has laid off 40 employees making thermocouples. "In October, the company opened a Manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China. The welding department located in Stamford, Conn., was downsized from 45 workers to five".
Many of those jobs DID move offshore. How do we know? Companies have to file paperwork with the Government that that explains where the jobs went when they have a significant layoff. There are many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of examples of companies that built facilities abroad or transferred jobs to foreign-owned offshore facilities. GM built factories in Mexico as did Ford. Chrysler was bought out by Fiat and now sells cars and SUVs that FIAT builds in Mexico, cars badged as Jeeps and Chryslers. Boeing built a factory in China. I posted about a dozen other random examples (out of perhaps a thousand) that added up to many thousands of jobs moved offshore but Scooby deleted the post. Too factual for him, I guess.
Too bad for the dishonest left, anyone with an interest can find lists of these offshored jobs on the Internet. You can too, 9:34 AM, and you should learn the truth before you mindlessly parrot any more liberal lies like "Jobs did not 'move overseas'".
Why did these companies move jobs offshore? It was precisely because the cost of moving to a cheaper and less regulated offshore location (which includes labor costs as well as the cost of regulations, taxes, training, health care etc. etc.) was less then the cost of automating. Those jobs did not move because of automation, they moved because it was TOO EXPENSIVE TO AUTOMATE and keep the production in the US.
Also, jobs do not "move." If someone is laid off in the US, that job no longer exists. If a decision is made to hire someone overseas, then a new job has been created by that decision. If a US company decides to move its operations overseas, no one has "stolen" the jobs. If Trump moves to restrict such free market activity, he is the one who is stealing - the companies' freedom to maximize its profits.
Manufacturing jobs have moved offshore. THEY ARE ACCOUNTED FOR in the WARN act paperwork. When an American facility moves abroad resulting in the loss of an American job with the subsequent creation of a job for a foriegner producing the same product in the offshore factory that, by definition, is a job that moved offshore.
By the way, my undergraduate minor was in Economics. I can tell that you are clearly a pretender. How do I know? You spring to defend the Obamanation by making nonsensical claims, you try to redefine standard terms, you make stuff up, and then you falsely claim that others must be wrong because they don't know Economics. That's standard operating tactics for liberals.
January 23, 2017 at 5:07 PM
Unlikely. I own more guns than you own clubs. Plus I own the police dept and the US justice dept. If you are not using your money to buy stock shares instead of crappy Walmart plastic stuff for the kids you can't afford, and cigarettes and beer you also can't afford, you are a loser, and losers never win. Club all you want, the guns are on my side. So is all the money.
No? You don't want to move? Did that fire your last working brain cell? Did you figure out why Americans don't want to move to Mexico or China to take their SAME JOB back, even if it was offered, which it wasn't?
Good God.
Good God.
The Demmy who wrote the post at 8:36 AM claims "it is not the same job" because the pay went down and some might consider his working conditions are worse because he has to work on the weekend. Of course, 8:36 is only saying this in a feckless attempt to defend his laughable claim that jobs don't move overseas.
Sheesh. No wonder fewer and fewer people believe anything that liberals say.
What you liberals don't understand is the free market works. The new guy is already doing a better job AND for less money. I'm happy, he's happy, and the lazy guy is learning that he needs to work harder or he'll lose all of his business.
Econ 101 doesn't say you get what you pay for. Only a complete phony would claim that. If you're stupid and you don't make good decisions, you can pay more and get less. Like you stupid liberals who want to force everyone to pay the floor sweeper $15 per hour. That's just going to end up with floor sweeper losing his job and we'll all have to suffer with filthy floors.
Good God.
If NNSA moves to DoD, nobody wins. Not DoD, who doesn't want it, not current NNSA or NNSA contractor employees, who won't like DoD micromanaging or lack of civilian employee benefits, and not the country, who will not understand the disaster of military control of nuclear weapon design and development until it is too late (hint: the military does not want nuclear weapons At all).
January 17, 2017 at 5:23 PM
DOE is the KING of micromanagement. DOD gives you a mission and says GET IT DONE. That is their version of management for the years I worked with them. It was great.
January 28, 2017 at 1:57 PM
Usually the wrong mission, such as fighting the last war. No one should trust the military to decide what the nuclear weapon design and development "mission" is. My guess: "Put everything in mothballs, but you 100 guys better make sure they work if we ever decide we want them again. Here's your $10 million dollars. GET IT DONE!"
Mob rule?
Mob rule?
January 31, 2017 at 10:21 AM
No, actually that would be a democracy, which in fact we do not have in this country. Here we have a constitutional representative republic in which the people decide who decides what happens.