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Wednesday, September 20, 2006


Time for some remedial math for the governor
Gov. Rick Perry announced today the award of a $7.5 million Texas Enterprise Fund grant to Lockheed Martin Corp., which is developing and building the successor to the space shuttle in Houston.

Perry said the grant was offered as an incentive for Lockheed Martin to keep the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle project and the 1,000 jobs that come with it in Houston.
Does the governor think that people that know how to design, build, test, and analyze spacecraft are going to be found sitting at an out-of-state bus station, or are they already in Houston, working on, oh, I don't know, other spacecraft? This is not a win for Texas. If anything it's a loss for Texas aerospace workers.



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