Guest Post by H.A. Furst
July 20 marks 50 years since our nation’s astronauts landed the lunar module on the Moon in what may arguably be the greatest technological achievement of modern time. I remember where I was, as a kid, that 1969 evening watching Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first humans and Americans to walk on the Moon. The relevance of that moment in time, the culmination of untold hours of human resources contributing to its realization, is not lost to me, particularly given the current debate on legal immigration and the recent vote on H.R. 1044, and upcoming vote on S. 386.
We as American citizens have been hearing propaganda for more than 20 years that the labor dumping of foreign workers on a variety of whack-a-mole, alphabet soup visas and Green Cards (H-1B, H-4, OPT, L and J visa programs, and EB-2, EB-3, EB-4, EB-5 Green Cards ) is essential for American innovation and technology advancement.
The 50thanniversary of the Moon landing is a reminder that it was home-grown American know-how and education that sent our nation’s brave astronauts to the Moon and back safely. Furthermore, we won the Cold War with advanced military technology. This all happened before the H-1B law was passed in 1990 and before WTO and NAFTA were “finalized” in the early 1990s. I know this because my own family’s involvement with developing and building essential and integral technologies that beat the USSR to the Moon, and then won the Cold War with superior nuclear deterrence.
My father developed and built top-secret technologies out of a lab in the Midwest at a leading defense technology company. These were integral to our astronauts landing safely on the Moon, and returning to our Earth’s atmosphere. Without these technologies, sending our astronauts safely to the Moon and back, and winning the Cold War, would have been impossible.
I also worked on a next-generation project for NASA. I guess the technology “gene” kind of runs in the family. I look back now at something that I took for granted growing up with my father who was an engineering genius, incubated with that self-reliance learned on the farm, fostered with U.S. military training, and much of it self taught on the subsequent jobs he did, with a lot of long hours worked during the 1960s.
Many evenings I remember my father coming back from work very late, after putting in long hours to make deadlines for production and delivery schedules. I actually remember one holiday where he went in to work, making triple time on that day. Companies paid generously to work on holidays back then. My father couldn’t talk specifics about his work since it was Top Secret – he had security clearance for many years – but I heard enough to know it was very important work, something I didn’t fully appreciate at the time as a kid.
I share this personal family history and reference two significant geo-political events in our nation’s 20thcentury history to assert that we don’t need the tremendous number of foreign workers we have allowed to flood into our country, people who are used to provide cheap indentured labor for the billionaire globalist oligarchs. Let’s contrast today’s situations with the Apollo moon mission.
I’ve repeatedly heard that there were about 400,000 workers, practically all Americans, who worked on NASA’s Apollo moon project. The majority, including my father, actually worked for private contractors. But two things need to be remembered: except for about 150 “refugee” POW German scientists (or maybe just 50) and technicians led by Wernher von Braun, practically all of the 400,000 were American-born and educated, and highly skilled because of extensive know-how due to years of education and work experience.
As a side note: It wasn’t much of a choice for the Germans involved: surrender to the American military at the end of WWII, or get captured by the USSR military and get sent to a Gulag lab.
There has been mention of how young the average age of the (practically all) young men were at Mission Control. But the people who really by-in-large made the Apollo project succeed were either World WW II vets, like my father, or experienced Korean War and Vietnam-era officer fighter pilots, and later test pilots. We’re talking skills that came from extensive (mostly military) training and work experience; people the youngest at least in their late 30s with lots of military training and/or test flight experience to people in their 50s, all highly experienced, U.S. military-related technologists of one sort or another.
The age demographics I’ve described of those 400,000 Apollo workers are not exactly the age demographics of the 20-something “bro” culture that oligarchs like Zuckerberg like to tout as ideal for “innovation.” Also contrast that with the propaganda that we need younger foreign workers to be on the leading edge of technology. I suppose so, if you need a new app for where to find a new sushi restaurant, or get a last-minute rideshare via the gig economy. Mr. Bezos and Mr. Musk, et al are going to find out what it really takes in terms of money and human courage to make a life and death real killer app with their space vehicle research – in contrast to how they made their billions with their online gimicks of selling books and new ways to electronically transfer money. (BTW, Elon, SWIFT was founded in 1973 and came to the U.S. in 1979.)
So when you think of the current attempts to further entrench foreign nationals from a certain developing country into our nation’s labor market, REMEMBER, we don’t need these people. H.R. 1044 should never have been passed; and S. 386 must not pass. We, as a nation, need to be investing in our own citizens, providing the opportunities for education and work experience that was given to those 400,000 Americans 50 years ago who together achieved the impossible.
To the Senate and President Trump: Think about that when S. 386 comes up for a vote.
And to all concerned Americans, you know what to tell your senators. No on S. 386!
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But…but…but according to HSF and the other fools here it was a hoax. Guess this guy never got the word.
Agreed. I believe, I know, 9-11 was an inside job and that RFK and JFK were assassinated by the CIA, but I never found the evidence for a moon hoax convincing. I lived in the USA when the original moon landing happened and admired not only the astronauts, but NASA and the USA for this remarkable achievement. We’re so negative about the USA and the West in general for all of their outrageous crimes these past few decades, but it tends to make us overly cynical, as well.
Two points:
I agree with the author on immigration. All immigration should be stopped indefinitely. Illegal and legal. This land of ours has enough human capital to sustain itself for generations to come. There is plenty of talent here, no need to bring foreigners, whose values do not align with ours, and who will not assimilate. Just stop it altogether. If people have families abroad, and burn with desire to reunite with them, we should encourage them to leave and never come back. We should encourage people who does not like it here to leave, period. Maybe even help them financially to relocate somewhere, on condition that they never able to come back.
Apollo space program. Stop fucking drooling over it. It was not some magical achievement. It was one of the greatest thefts of resources from ‘We The People’ and sinking them into the useless publicity stunt. At least we can still use the interstate highways. Leave it to us ‘The People’ to decide how to part with our money. Nowhere the US federal government was chartered to waste our money like this. Bottom line – it was on par with communist Russia and China, just as stupid and totalitarian.
H1Bs are a travesty, and many of their alleged credentials are fake…All immigration should be stopped , and non-citizens without proper visas deported.
We can send Dual Citizens home too.
Only problem is, we never went to the moon. We cannot do that even today Lookup Van Allen radiation belt for starters..
A knucklehead flat-earther buddy of mine has one answer to everything: “Look it up!”.
I thought the Flat Earth Society was a joke, a bit. Like joining the Anti Euphemism League (something I plan on starting someday) or taking up bocce ball. Then I found out he really believes it. His evidence is Psalm 19, which has the word “firmament”. Look it up!
I wonder why Wernher von Braun chose Psalms 19:1 on his tombstone. A deliberate act wouldn’t you say? I also wonder why so many government apparatchiks yearn to ‘come clean’ on their deathbeds … i wonder ….
Yeah, that’s what my flat earther buddy said. Actually he pointed out that verse to me in my own bible, referenced Von Braun , said “there, see!” and gave me a look like Barney Fife gave Andy after he’d recited the preamble to the constitution. So apparently Von Braun and Psalm 19:2 is a meme among flat earthers.
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the firmament proclaims the works of His hands.”
Yup. That proves it. Firmament. It’s in the Bible. The earth is flat. Look it up. There’s no such thing as space. Look it up. Water can’t bend. Look it up. Of course, the Mormons would say that verse proves our Heavenly Father has actual human hands and God, therefore is a glorified man.
While I haven’t personally crunched the numbers , NASA’s explanation of trajectory and duration of the ship in traversing a doughnut shaped radiation belt seems quite plausible. I suspect , like flat earth itself , it’s being used to blackwash all conspiracy theory.
Nonsense. Go here & learn about the nature of the Van Allen belts :
while working for a nasa subcontractor, my uncle cletus helped to create film that was impervious to the radiation that some of the astronauts didn’t know they would have to travel through. cletus knew. he only worried that nasa would be crazy-careless after the achievement and somehow lose or tape over all that great stuff.
Everyone should check out the Hasselblad pictures released by NASA in 2014 after hiding them for 50 years AFTER the Chinese and the Russians outed NASA in an open letter to the press…stating that the Chinese ChangE2 lunar orbiter mission they flew in 2009 couldn’t find one single item that NASA sent to the moon, not the six landers, not the five surveyors, or anything else. Take a gander at the Apollo 11, 15, and 16 landers, which by the way, are all the same movie prop made from art board, duct tape, plastic, broom handers, and related junk. Also, check out the Apollo 15 ascent stage on it’s way back to the command module. It seems our astroNOTS could live without a pressurized ascent stage……but then all the astroNOTS, even today, are all Illuminati Satanists (to ensure their silence), who have testicles made of plutonium, lungs made from steel, and shit for brains.
American citizens in the blue collar industries were tossed overboard continuously for the last 50 years . No where is it more apparent then the steel industry . The Betlehem Steel #2 Machine Shop Sparrows Point MD was the only place that could Machine heat shields for the Apollo missions those perfectly molded machines parts kept the astronauts from being incinerated on re entry . FYI many of those men had their retirement benefits bankrupted as they died off from exposure to all sorts of industrial toxins and wow their wives ended up with $85 bucks a month survivors pension after bankruptcy of the company while the investor groups walked away with millions . Some thanks for being part of an-event of National pride . I knew a few men that worked that project they were proud of their part never thinking what the future held for them . Now the clamor to go back to the moon and then mars can’t wait to see who gets fucked over ultimately on this national pride bull shit . You think this is a great idea you pay for it from your bank account and retirement I’m certain a grateful nation will show their thanks by tossing you under the next bus !