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I'm talking about government spending to money actually being used in the economy. In which NASA is largely the best program. On a person by person level yes t
by valarauca1 13y ago
I'm talking about government spending to money actually being used in the economy. In which NASA is largely the best program.
On a person by person level yes there is likely some wasted talent at NASA, and their skills could be put to better use else where. But doing a micro-economic analysis of every 1 person's case over 300,000 employes and 18,000 contractors would be very time consuming then making boarder macro economic statements. Also remember micro-economics are wrong about certain things, macro-economics are wrong about things in general.
- mcguire 13y ago"300,000 employees and 18,000 contractors" Assuming you're talking about the '60's, it's the other way around. If you're talking about today, it's still the other way around but the number of contractors is much smaller.
- valarauca1 13y agoThose numbers are taken from NASA itself, they have links to the size of their operations nasapeople.nasa.gov
- mcguire 13y agoDo you mean this: https://wicn.nssc.nasa.gov/c10/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=powerPlayService&m_encoding=UTF-8&BZ=1AAABgNNr_f942m2PQWuDQBCF~8yOaS9hdlTUgwd1DRHamEahZ6NjCTFuUFOaf981KYTSzu7wHm__gV2ryJdFme~STIXjpAfO1BMQHSShS5TK2I89x~NXsYt24AfKd4Mg8mLHMM~WvJtGu2S9jcp1CLSqdT9xPxnX6q7hAdwYHOyrE4OtFttBt4eOgTC57HlcgKsMea7qY~XBv9F3PRxbPdQz~LM245YqkmWSbzZpUmZGotc0~Ae14rewRRQSEaVEIQQKFwWhmI8QUdcZOD2dO31lHgGDvDeBukxXI0DtPP0yP2m4MfaFq082kADygWwDsATaAwX3QD4C8afk7c7m~qBbP_obQJNj2A%3D%3D https://wicn.nssc.nasa.gov/c10/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll?b_act... (Aaahhhhhh! Cognos! Aaahhhhhhh!) I don't have a good source for the number of contractors, other than wikipedia. (...which cites http://employeeorientation.nasa.gov/contractors/default.htm http://employeeorientation.nasa.gov/contractors/default.htm. Huh.)
- tanzam75 13y ago> (Aaahhhhhh! Cognos! Aaahhhhhhh!) Aha! Now we know where NASA's IT budget went -- to IBM. IBM specializes in making sure that you spend your full IT budget each year, so that upper management isn't tempted to cut it next year.
- valarauca1 13y agoYes but IBM also makes very damn reliable mainframes, also z-series can emulate system360's, which NASA had quiet a few of (the last one wasn't decommissioned until 2010). So likely to maintain payroll or tax data they kept IBM.