Obama Exports Jobs!

This has seemed to be an ongoing trend. He is against and down on some of the best things we do in the US. Will not even come to Kansas, and keeps trying to put corporate jets out of business, when that is a big part of the industry in Wichita,Ks. We are not amused. At all.

oh hll why not? We hire illegal immigrants and outsource all sorts of work to India, China etc. Let's be fair and give Russia some money making opportunities. Ted your discussions just make me more aware of all I wish I didn't know.

I really knew he was crazy when he said that no more of our shops will go up grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Now I do wonder what will happen to the plant that made the rockets to go on the spae shuttle

If he gave a $hit about the American worker he would have sold off chunks of NASA to private businesses here who are more fiscally responsible and could get us into space cheaper. Instead he took the lazy way out and subcontracted to a country who just last week called us a parasite despite the fact that we sent them $68,000,000 in aid each year.

The shuttle program, which was scheduled for mandatory retirement in 2011, saw the final launch with Atlantis launching on July 8, 2011, in accord with the directives President George W. Bush issued on January 14, 2004 in his Vision for Space Exploration. http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/bush_vision.html

Yeah, it is what other big businesses have been doing. Had he contracted it with private industries who says they wouldn't have outsourced it. Investing billions in research to send people to the moon is nifty, but it's not really profitable. Complain that the country needs to be run like a business, but the first move that models big business in American and everyone flips out. Russia is the only other country and probably entity that has a space program. If it saves billions in tax dollars and we still get what we need what's the problem. If you're so for capitalism, make a better space program and buy the contract from Russia.

That's not the worst of it. The space shuttle system was the biggest buyer of the helium in Texas. Now, the government is thinking about selling all of our helium. That would mean,instead of using our own supply of helium, we would have to buy it to supply hospitals and other businesses that commonly use helium.

Maybe it is time to export the jobs of politicians and representatives?

You need to do a bit more research before you vent. The President's policy is and should be to shift the possibly profitable business of low orbit space flight to the private sector and get the government out of what should be private business. Are you advocating a socialist policy of government domination and usurpation of the private sector?

That's sad to hear. I think that the Russian's have always been further advanced than the Americans in space travel so this might not be such a bad thing. And i don't think it would mean that all the rocket scientist and engineers would have lost their jobs and were more likely to have been transfered to where the services could be appreciated.

No surprise. Take the one thing that made us stand out for years and give it away rather than having the private sector give it a shot. Obama wants America to fail.

Commercial spaceflight will eventually replace it. But I agree there is a lot of deserved criticism for the government's handling of this.

I'm not entirely opposed to this. If Russia can get what we need done, for a fraction of the cost, can you really be opposed to saving us billions of dollars? I am not. Now granted, I'm assuming they can do it as well as we could, and that may not be the case.

Obama was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. It was either run up LOTS of government spending to keep the space program or take the lowest bid to save billions. Either way a HATER is going to attack him. And let's not forget this plan has been in place all the way back to Clinton (the dismantling our own space program part), so blaming all this on Obama is a stretch. Now what America has done wrong is assume Russia can do a better job than an American owned company even if it had to start from scratch a couple years ago to be ready for this contract. We knew this was coming and yet did not promote the growth of a private sector space program. Shame shame. But again, not all Obama's fault. Free enterprise ensures some of our jobs go overseas. Our job as active citizens is to buy American where possible and promote American business. Toward this end, I fear you are right that Obama has not done enough, but you can't lay all of this on him. Everyone who has ever said the Federal government is too big is also to blame here. Scarey, huh?