It sure is a good thing The Obamessiah got his Stimupalooza bill passed and all those jobs got saved and created.
Boeing is laying off about 130 employees in Huntsville in response to proposed cuts and changes in the 2010 defense budget.
The layoffs are largely in the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program, according to Tony Jones, Boeing vice president and Huntsville site executive. GMD accounts for about 1,300 of the company’s more than 3,200 workers here, he said, and for about 600 jobs with others.
In a statement, Boeing said layoff notices will be issued to about 250 employees working in GMD at various locations, including Alabama, Alaska, California and Colorado. They are to receive an official 60-day advance notice today, but Jones said it won’t be a surprise.
“We’ve talked to all of our employees,” he said. “We’ve done a lot of work” to try and minimize the impact, find jobs in other programs for as many as possible and provide other assistance.
The cuts are part of 1,000 jobs Boeing’s Integrated Defense Systems said this week it plans to eliminate at various locations because of changes in defense spending.
I’m sure that those “Green Jobs” are right around the corner for these folks.
Not that they care. They just want a job that gets them some “Green”.
Found via McKittrick’s Closing Velocity
The unavoidable fact that is completely lost on the light bringer and his myrmidions is that it is only when people have jobs that bring them green are they able to actually afford and actually make the decisions the light bringer and his myrmidions regard as “green”. I mean, we didn’t have water pollution in years past so bad that the Cuyahoga river caught fire because we were unenlightened, we had a fiery river because we didn’t have the scratch to see to it that it wouldn’t catch fire.
Enable the people to hire one another and make things and provide services, all at rates that are economically workable, and people will act to clean up their environment.