[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 23, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H658-H659]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  WHERE, OH WHERE, HAVE THE JOBS GONE?

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, where, oh where, have the jobs gone?
  Where, oh where, can they be?
  With the people so mad and the economy so bad
  Where, oh where, can the jobs be?
  Well, the administration is planning on killing the Constellation 
space program at NASA. This will cost about 7,000 scientists and 
engineers their jobs at NASA in Houston. About 30,000 people nationwide 
in related work will be looking for jobs.
  NASA has led the United States into being the world's greatest 
exploration country, and now the shuttle program is also ending. So in 
the future, if Americans wish to travel in space, they will need to 
hitch a ride with the Russians because we won't have the vehicles to 
travel in space. And of course China intends on being the number one 
space exploration country in the future as well. It looks like we are 
giving away our leadership and our dominance in space.
  So where, oh where, have the jobs gone?
  Where, oh where, can they be?
  They are going overseas to the Russians and Chinese
  That's where they shall be.
  And that's just the way it is.

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