Dropping the bomb

Recent news that the local Honeywell plant could be shut down is very unsettling.

A plant that employs more than 2,000 people in south Kansas City faces an uncertain future, KMBC's Peggy Breit reported Monday.

A federal task force made a preliminary recommendation to shut down the Honeywell Plant on Bannister Road. The facility makes non-nuclear components for nuclear weapons.

In a report issued last week, the Nuclear Weapons Complex Infrastructure Task Force said Honeywell's work should be consolidated or outsourced to privately owned plants. The report stated that operating the Kansas City plant has been a burden on the company and the National Nuclear Security Agency.

I'm sure this bombshell just devastates employees. I mean, they are just doing their job and trying to live their lives and someone drops this on them. No warning . . . out of the clear blue sky. After the devastation they are left to pick up the pieces, rearrange the ruble of their lives. My God, what did they do to deserve this kind of explosive news? I guess the only thing they can do is crawl out of the ashes of this disappointment and maybe figure out another way to pay for the fuel to fill that SUV. You know gas isn't free.