Just doing some cleaning, dear and beloved readers.
"Shuttle workers to get $15m to find new jobs" by Associated Press | June 3, 2010
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA shuttle workers will share $15 million from the federal government to help them search for new jobs once the program ends, US Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis said yesterday.
Related: Shuttle Discovery has last touchdown
Yeah, we have better things on which to spend our national tax treasure -- like wars, Wall Street, and Israel.
Speaking at Kennedy Space Center, Solis said the emergency federal grant was meant to help contractors who work for the shuttle program look for new positions and get additional training after the program ends....
The grant is in addition to $40 million in aid to retrain workers that President Obama promised when he visited Kennedy Space Center in April.
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What a humbling thing to think that the empire that was first to the moon is now thumbing rides to the space station. Start Trek it ain't!
