2500 abruptly w/o jobs is not the same as over 3000 dead and many more injured, but the conspiracy theorists are having a heyday noticing that both may be the very deliberate and ruthless acts of our own top government in cahoots with the military-industrial complex.
Can you say "Bechtel"? "Halliburton"? "Bush-Cheney"?
What is in it for Bechtel to have taken the LANS contract only to have to (get to?) fire 2500 employees, many highly educated, trained and skilled scientists? Their operating contract valued everywhere between $60M and $79M just doesn't seem like it is worth all of the trouble to them. What *else* are they in this for?
Any guesses?
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"What *else* are they in this for?
Any guesses?"
Big bucks from
1) building, and then
2) running the RFP replacement pit fab facility at LANL, if
3) They can, er, convince Congress to fund it.
I am a 2 tour Vietnam Veteran who recently retired after 36 years of working in the Defense Industrial Complex on many of the weapons systems being used by our forces as we speak. I believed another Vietnam could be avoided with defined missions and the best armaments in the world.
It made no difference.
We have bought into the Military Industrial Complex (MIC). If you would like to read how this happens please see:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/03/spyagency200703
Through a combination of public apathy and threats by the MIC we have let the SYSTEM get too large. It is now a SYSTEMIC problem and the SYSTEM is out of control. Government and industry are merging and that is very dangerous.
There is no conspiracy. The SYSTEM has gotten so big that those who make it up and run it day to day in industry and government simply are perpetuating their existance.
The politicians rely on them for details and recommendations because they cannot possibly grasp the nuances of the environment and the BIG SYSTEM.
So, the system has to go bust and then be re-scaled, fixed and re-designed to run efficiently and prudently, just like any other big machine that runs poorly or becomes obsolete or dangerous.
This situation will right itself through trauma. I see a government ENRON on the horizon, with an associated house cleaning.
The next president will come and go along with his appointees and politicos. The event to watch is the collapse of the MIC.
For more details see:
http://rosecoveredglasses.blogspot.com/2006/11/odyssey-of-armaments.html
Ken -
Thanks for your note here:
There is no conspiracy. The SYSTEM has gotten so big that those who make it up and run it day to day in industry and government simply are perpetuating their existance.
I will grant you that the conspiracy is not generally "overt". I think yhou nailed it when you said "perpetuating their existence".
LANL itself, or the people (self included) are participating in this.
As Pogo (the cartoon Turtle,not the organization) said "We have met the enemy and they is us".
Can you tell me two things:
1) How did you find this blog?
2) What are you doing to correct/obviate/alleviate the problem as you see it?
Thanks,
-Doc
Doc -
Don't forget Katrina whose loss of life is at a similar scale to 9/11 and naturally that huge layoffs such as the proposed one here are not the same as deaths.
And then put all of this in the shadow of the huge natural and not-so-natural disasters the rest of the world (especially the undeveloped world) suffers.
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunamis: 230,000
2005 Kashmir earthquate: 79,000
1985 Columbia volcano: 23,000
1931 Huang He flood: 800K-4M
20th C drought/famine: >10M
Iraq War: ~100K civilians ~4K US
WWII: 40-70M
20th C genocide: ~50M
Most of us can retire or get another job of some kind. Our careers are threatened, but not our lives.
Until Bechtel brings in their buddies from Blackwater to deliver the RIF notices (only to those of us who read the blogs of course).
- Darko
what a stupid blog...
go away doc
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