The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut at least 2,145 high-ranking Nasa employees with specialized skills or management responsibilities.
According to documents obtained by Politico, most employees leaving are in senior-level government ranks, depriving the agency of decades of experience as part of a push to slash the size of the federal government through early retirement, buyouts and deferred resignations.
The documents indicate that 1,818 of the staff currently serve in core mission areas, like science or human space flight, while the others work in mission support roles including information technology, or IT.
Defund SpaceX, give the subsides it to NASA
This idiotic administration still hasn’t figured out that every time they fire someone experienced and competent, and replaced them with a loyalist, they just make their opposition stronger.
When the real fight comes, the Nazis will have morons running the show, while the Resistance will have the smartest, most experienced people in the world.
But since they believe to their core their worn out propaganda that EVERYONE in the government is an incompetent parasite, they think they are strengthening their side by cutting these people. Pure hubris.
When the real fight comes, the Nazis will have morons running the show, while the Resistance will have the smartest, most experienced people in the world.
Happened before. Jews were round up and killed or fled Germany, and their “Jewish sciences” like the work of Einstein were taboo ot outright rejected. So when it became apparent that nuclear energy could be harnessed to make a bomb, the Germans were on the back foot and had no one with expertise in the theory necessary to build it. Germany fell before the bomb was ultimately built, but it would have turned the tides of the war immediately had they not, as we saw.
The problem now, though, is that most of the world powers already have enough doomsday weapons to destroy all of humanity 10 times over so… even as we get more precise and efficient and effective at taking out specific targets from afar, all it ever takes is for one mad man with a legion of nukes to end it all, and guess what we have…
Just when you thought these morons can’t get any worse, they do it. Every time.
I grew up in Huntsville, AL. NASA is not just used for space.
Remember the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? NASA was brought in to help with that. I know people personally who worked on it.
This is just another step to making no one questions the administration.
There is no place for critical thinkers and problem solvers in new America.
Shit is tense here, dude…
And the brain drain continues.
I’m sure the ESA will gladly accept new rocket scientists.
I wonder if Mark Robert sees this and wishes he had done it different during the Tesla video controversy.
Let’s say it’s $250,000 on average for these employees base pay + benefits. That’s about half a billion in savings.
Which is
0.0016%0.016% of the $3Trillion dollars in debt the MAGAs just approved. So this basically saves us nothing and only hurts our ability to invest in technological innovation.What a bunch of dumb fucks.
It’s way, way worse than. When you spend money at NASA you aren’t just setting it on fire, those salaries support everything that the people who work there spend money on in their personal lives. It pays local taxes. It supports the salaries of workers in the local communities (I don’t mean where NASA buildings are either, that money goes to all 50 states). It also mostly gets spent issuing contracts to the fabricators that make the things for NASA. It pays salaries at Northrup, Lockheed, Boeing etc. There are also all the drivers pushing the advancement of industry and education and their knock-on effects that come from leading the world in aerospace science and engineering.
And the real kick in the pants: all of those things together GENERATE TAX REVENUE. Even if, for some insanely immoral and degenerate reason, you wanted to ignore the ways that NASA makes the world a better place–when viewed through a purely fiscal lens the money spent at NASA generates more in tax revenue downstream than it costs to run NASA. When you cut their budget like this you aren’t reducing the debt/deficit, you’re increasing it.
I still feel like that’s an overestimation. I have worked there in the past, and the best and brightest often are because they’re passionate people. They tend to get undervalued and taken advantage of because of that passion.
MAGA Nazis can’t do math. The truth is what they declare it to be.
Being pedantic about a good point, but I’m pretty sure you have an extra zero in that percentage. 0.016% of 3 trillion is 480 million, 0.0016% is 48 million
India wins.
Goodbye NASA. Thanks for all the cool science. Maybe someday you’ll exist more than in name only.
The most painful part is even if the budget is increased, we won’t be able to get this talent back for decades
It’s very specialized skills that can only built up after decades at NASA. Once it’s gone, it’s gone for good
Most definitely. It takes a generation to inspire develop and select these kinds of experts as well as build the kind of experience that you need to push the boundaries of human knowledge.
The result of this move is invariably an American dark age. We’re not going to be a relevant part of human progress for the foreseeable future.
The voters sent a clear signal that they do not value intellectuals. NASA is respecting those wishes.
The result of this move is invariably an American dark age.
And once again, Russia benefits. MAGA is deliberately destroying America, and it is all by design. We will never be free if this nightmare until Americans realize that the people running this administration aren’t just evil, they aren’t just stupid or incompetent, they aren’t just corrupt. They are TRAITORS, and are destroying America DELIBERATELY. Until this is fully acknowledged, and all those people rounded up and punished, America can never go back to anything resembling a normal society
Spaaaaceeeee foooorreccceeeeee!
Yeah, i hate it.
So, america… Ready to do anything yet?
Best I can do is a dictatorship.
As bad as it is, I cannot help but laugh at Alabama and Texas for this self inflicted wound.
Do let us know how funny you find it in 3 years when they blame minorities and Democrats for it in the voting booth.
… when they blame minorities and Democrats for it in the voting booth yet again.
Gotta free up more money for the billionaire grifters.
Don’t worry everyone. I don’t like musk any more than you do but you can’t deny that space x is amazing and perfect and sexy and not Jewish and will solve all problems because nobody else in human history ever thought of a reusable vessel!
And this is definitely a “good” reminder to reach out to a buddy at NASA
