We live about 100 miles downstream from Hanford. Believe me, I was very far from amused by Biden's appointment of a transvestite nutcase to be in charge of the cleanup, but I was equally very far from amused by that DOGE firing of nuclear engineers there.
Both of those were reversed, DOGE's thankfully much more quickly, but they are both …
We live about 100 miles downstream from Hanford. Believe me, I was very far from amused by Biden's appointment of a transvestite nutcase to be in charge of the cleanup, but I was equally very far from amused by that DOGE firing of nuclear engineers there.
Both of those were reversed, DOGE's thankfully much more quickly, but they are both examples of rank idiocy. Another example would be the dismissals within the Bonneville Power Administration and the U.S. Forest Service. I could go on and on about bad federal management of national forests for the past 35 or so years, but firing the people who'll be fighting the fires this summer was stupid and scary.
We live 15 miles as the crow flies from a national forest named for the first head of the Forest Service, Gifford Pinchot, appointed by Teddy Roosevelt. Part of it caught fire the summer before last. Reform of the Forest Service is very much needed, but not that way to say the very least.
The first rule of ANY incoming administration should be: "Don't be stupid." That others have been stupid is no excuse to be stupid, only in different ways.
Unfortunately, it’s the way it had to be done because dragging one’s feet would give the left even more time to stop it. And which employees would have joined the DOGE to allow a scalpel approach? The ones who barricaded themselves in their building so no one could in. It’s a time of extremes. Sad, but that is the only way to get it done.
Shoot first and ask questions later? Nope. Especially with the nuke plants and the forests. Here in the Pacific NW, national forests cover one-fourth of the land. Wildfire is a perennial thing here. Last summer, Oregon had the most acreage in the country on fire.
Now, there are some aspects of federal firefighting that I don't fully know about. One is how many federal employees fight the fires vs. private contractors. If the latter, were the funds for the contractors cut? Call me a flaming "progressive," but I don't think the federal government should slack off on nuclear safety or firefighting.
I don’t see it as bad as hiring incompetents and slackers. Pros and cons to both. And yes, the vast majority of controllers I worked with were good at what they did. There were incompetents, hopefully they ended up in management before they killed anyone. Which actually said more about the hiring process of the FAA. Plus the best always watched out for those who needed help.
We live about 100 miles downstream from Hanford. Believe me, I was very far from amused by Biden's appointment of a transvestite nutcase to be in charge of the cleanup, but I was equally very far from amused by that DOGE firing of nuclear engineers there.
Both of those were reversed, DOGE's thankfully much more quickly, but they are both examples of rank idiocy. Another example would be the dismissals within the Bonneville Power Administration and the U.S. Forest Service. I could go on and on about bad federal management of national forests for the past 35 or so years, but firing the people who'll be fighting the fires this summer was stupid and scary.
We live 15 miles as the crow flies from a national forest named for the first head of the Forest Service, Gifford Pinchot, appointed by Teddy Roosevelt. Part of it caught fire the summer before last. Reform of the Forest Service is very much needed, but not that way to say the very least.
The first rule of ANY incoming administration should be: "Don't be stupid." That others have been stupid is no excuse to be stupid, only in different ways.
Unfortunately, it’s the way it had to be done because dragging one’s feet would give the left even more time to stop it. And which employees would have joined the DOGE to allow a scalpel approach? The ones who barricaded themselves in their building so no one could in. It’s a time of extremes. Sad, but that is the only way to get it done.
Shoot first and ask questions later? Nope. Especially with the nuke plants and the forests. Here in the Pacific NW, national forests cover one-fourth of the land. Wildfire is a perennial thing here. Last summer, Oregon had the most acreage in the country on fire.
Now, there are some aspects of federal firefighting that I don't fully know about. One is how many federal employees fight the fires vs. private contractors. If the latter, were the funds for the contractors cut? Call me a flaming "progressive," but I don't think the federal government should slack off on nuclear safety or firefighting.
I don’t see it as bad as hiring incompetents and slackers. Pros and cons to both. And yes, the vast majority of controllers I worked with were good at what they did. There were incompetents, hopefully they ended up in management before they killed anyone. Which actually said more about the hiring process of the FAA. Plus the best always watched out for those who needed help.