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| Los Alamos National Lab |
On Tuesday the lab announced plans to lay off as many as 800 employees thanks to ever changing budget priorities of Democratic Party leaders in Washington D.C.
The lab now faces a budget cut of $300 million, which is more than $200 million less than the amount of money Energy Secretary Steven Chu and President Barack Obama threw away on Solyndra.
While one could argue that unlike Steve Pearce, Jeff Bingaman, Martin Heinrich, Ben Ray Lujan, and Tom Udall could not see the Solyndra bankruptcy coming, everyone in Los Alamos could see how the president and his Washington bureaucrats were lining Los Alamos for the slaughter. Even while New Mexico’s Democratic congressional delegation extolled the virtues of the president’s green jobs initiatives, LANL employees knew they were being forsaken. |
| Heather Wilson |
Heather Wilson, who is likely to face Martin Heinrich for a senate seat next November recognized the neglect of Heinrich and yet another broken promise to New Mexico by the Obama administration. “A little over a year ago, President Obama made a commitment to modernize our nuclear weapons complex in order to maintain a safe, reliable nuclear deterrent at lower levels of forces'" Wilson said. “In his new budget, however, President Obama has broken that commitment. And as a result, an estimated 1,000 jobs will be killed for 10 years in Los Alamos.”
After failing to wield any influence in Washington whatsoever, Tom Udall released a remarkably impotent statement. "LANL is critical to our national security and state's economy, and I will continue to push for adequate funding at both of New Mexico's national labs," Udall said. You are a little late Tommy.
In an era when good jobs are hard to come by and Los Alamos performs some of the nation’s most critical functions, it is hard to understand how this debacle could have unfolded right under the noses of a congressional delegation dominated by members of the president’s own party.
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