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NASA: Workfare for the Middle Class

NASA: Workfare for the Middle Class

A reader responding to my most recent article on Mises.org writes: 

“As a former prime contractor to NASA (I’m much better now, thanks) I was astonished at what I found.  The miracle is that anyone flies safely, not that occasionally they blow up.  Everyone I knew, including those still there, hates and has contempt for this monsrosity.  One engineer called it workfare for the middle class.  It is the only place I have ever seen where employees brought pillows to work and openly slept on them.  I once waited 3 days for a screwdriver, which never came.

“I could go on about the Air Farce or Lockheed Martin and the products that they build, which no private consumer would ever buy, but you get the idea.”

 

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