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Screwed: Possible 23,000 at NASA
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Today’s Total: 23,816
Obama’s proposed budget for NASA may cost as many as 23,000 jobs, from 9,000 “direct” space jobs and 14,000″indirect” hotel and restaurant positions…IBM Australia‘s decision to outsource to India and China may cause 800 local jobs…In California, Menlo Park City School District will lay off 8 teachers in the process of reducing funding for art, physical education, and Spanish programs…In Virginia, Monticello plans on cutting city funding for its police force today and phasing out the department entirely by July 1, and laying off 8 police officers in the process…ABC News will be cutting 20 percent of their news staff due to the impact of new technologies in the industry…
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The nation’s space agency paid the out-of-this-world price of $66 a person a day for bagels, cookies and juice at a conference.During the three-day conference, the 317 attendees snacked on “light refreshments” of soda, coffee, fruit, bagels and cookies at a cost of $62,611, according to a NASA Inspector General report. That’s $66 a day per person. NASA’s TWO new space station Toilets cost $19 million EACH. That’s another $36 million down the drain. With financial budgeting like that its no surprise the BEST choice is to get rid of the unregulated & financially strapped space agency. The break should give them time to think about all the wasted gov’t spending in the past.