Obama's NASA trip

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*The President at Space X*

*- His motorcade proceeded not far from the building where I
work. There is no picture for this historic moment in my life because
every building on the military instillation near his motorcade was put
into complete lockdown.*

*- The President then gave a 45 minute speech on his plans for
NASA at the Operations and Control building. 1,000 employees were given
paid leave to keep them out of the building the entire day. The O&C
building was in lockdown from 7 AM to 7 PM including the surrounding
parking lots.*

*- _The speech was given to persons who rec’d a White House
invitation._*

*- The President then flew out from the SLF around 3:45 PM.*

*The President came to “talk to us” about the future of NASA, but _NONE_
of “us” were at his speech. Nor were we able to even wave to him as he
drove around. Even his supporters that I work with were livid that they
could not even walk out of the building to view his motorcade at a
distance. One even stormed off from the single window facing the road he
traveled & stated that America is not free.*

*I can understand the desire for safety for our President, but this was
serious over-kill. The President was on a secure facility; surrounded by
unarmed nerds w/federally investigated backgrounds. Many of the
employees at NASA-KSC have been around since the beginning of the
shuttle program. I can honestly say that I do not believe we would have
been confined to our buildings or that entire buildings would have been
shut down for an entire day if Bush had ever visited … or any other past
President for that matter. We, as the media labeled us, truly were
hostile territory for this President.*

*The President’s speech did not tell us anything more than what we could
have read in /Florida Today/. We will still lose 8,000 jobs at just KSC
alone. He will “save” 2,000 jobs … not really. Tho, his logic is very
similar to the health care bill. We will spend (i.e. lose) 8,000 ($1
trillion dollars) jobs in order to save 2,000 jobs ($100 billion) in the
future. He is still cancelling Constellation. He is still relegating us
to the back of the bus in the space industry. We still do not have a
private industry that can send humans into space. We will give foreign
countries millions to employ their citizens in order to send our
astronauts into space.*

*He has proclaimed that he is giving us a “new” direction much like JFK
did when he proclaimed that America would go to the moon. Only, his new
direction does not have us going to the moon or Mars or even the ISS! He
wants us to find where the Easter bunny lives (i.e. Climate
Change). This is not a direction for NASA. This is the destruction of
America ’s lead in space.*

*This President spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to come & tell us
everything we already knew. He could have simply remained in D.C. &
given the same worthless speech to save everyone time &
money. Operations at KSC were shut down; some for the entire day. For
what? Well, we did learn something. When this President is around the
/“intelligent workforce that America ’s space industry cannot afford to
lose,”/ we will be locked down & prevented from seeing him.*

*This narcissistic, communistic President has betrayed America over &
over again. His reign of destruction will prove difficult to fix when he
is voted out in 2012. Are you, America, up for the challenge?*