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America’s Descent Into the Third World
Chronicles Magazine ^
| Monday, July 25, 2005
| Paul Craig Roberts
Posted on 07/27/2005 6:21:50 AM PDT by A. Pole
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:21:50 AM PDT
by
A. Pole
To: Willie Green; Wolfie; ex-snook; Jhoffa_; FITZ; arete; FreedomPoster; Red Jones; Pyro7480; ...
"How much longer will parents shell out $100,000 for a college education for a son or daughter who ends up employed as a bartender, waitress or temp?"
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:23:49 AM PDT
by
A. Pole
(The Law of Comparative Advantage: "Americans should not have children and should not go to college")
To: A. Pole
I think no small part of preferring foreign-born engineering graduates to home-grown is in their scholastic performance. Too many here are content to just squeak by on math and science.
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:24:03 AM PDT
by
NRA1995
(West Virginia needs neurosurgeons like San Francisco needs gynecologists)
To: Willie Green
Ping!
(Just wanted to make your day, Willie.)
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:24:18 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Islam: Nothing BEER couldn't cure!)
To: A. Pole
How can the U.S. be third world when we produce so many intellegent, productive attorneys?
To: Bertha Fanation
"How can the U.S. be third world when we produce so many intellegent, productive attorneys?"
Don't think any of us have ALL DAY to respond to that one! LOL.....
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:30:00 AM PDT
by
litehaus
To: NRA1995
I think no small part of preferring foreign-born engineering graduates to home-grown is in their scholastic performance. Too many here are content to just squeak by on math and science. That's the conundrum. The best and brightest of our US-born students are smart enough to see what is happening out there. They think, why should I spend four or six or eight years in school pursuing a difficult field of study, only to be either unemployed or have my job outsourced to Bangalore?
And please, people, spare us the routine FR bromides about "it's their own fault for choosing the wrong field", or "start your own business, you lazy bum". For a student looking to start an academic program, that kind of crap is not the kind of thing that will encourage them.
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:31:14 AM PDT
by
chimera
To: NRA1995; A. Pole
"How much longer will parents shell out $100,000 for a college education for a son or daughter who ends up employed as a bartender, waitress or temp?"
I think NRA1995's reply:"I think no small part of preferring foreign-born engineering graduates to home-grown is in their scholastic performance. Too many here are content to just squeak by on math and science."
pretty well sums it up. Maybe if a few more spoiled American kids had to pay for their OWN education, they'd be more involved AND committed. I come in contact with both foreign and American students...I'd hire the foreign one over the American every time. East Indians, just as an example, are probably NOT smarter...they're just willing to work for what they want. They have not been handed everything and appreciate what their earned money can buy.
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:33:09 AM PDT
by
Maria S
To: Bertha Fanation
How can the U.S. be third world when we produce so many intellegent, productive attorneys? I think you just answered your own question.
And yeah, I do happen to think Shakespeare was right.
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:39:40 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Thanks to the Leftists, yesterday's deviants are today's "alternate lifestyles.")
To: A. Pole
Oh dont worry, our savor Hillary Clinton will rescue us! She is superwomen, she can do anything and she will save the USA!
yeeeah right..
To: All
More BS from Paul Craig Roberts..
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:42:05 AM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles, the earth/past to the groundhogs)
To: NRA1995
I think no small part of perferring foreign-born ...etc. is because they are cheap.
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:44:25 AM PDT
by
nyconse
To: A. Pole
"How much longer will parents shell out $100,000 for a college education for a son or daughter who ends up employed as a bartender, waitress or temp?"
Better question is how much longer will they shell out $$$$$ so they can be brain washed in Marxism by a bunch of left wing kooks who never had a real job
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:47:32 AM PDT
by
uncbob
To: NRA1995
That is a ridiculous, uniformed, unsupportable statement.
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:47:46 AM PDT
by
clearsight
(forsake your popularity and do what is right for God's sake and ours.........)
To: A. Pole
We represent five percent of the world's population and we have been living large for fifty years.
The rest of the world is catching up with us and we are going to have to compete for the lucrative jobs.
Before we only had to compete against other Americans, now we have to compete against the world.
Being born in this country gives us a huge advantage against others, but it is no longer a guarantee of success.
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:48:26 AM PDT
by
oldbrowser
(The MSM is a cancer on our society)
To: KevinDavis
Do you have something intelligent to say in response to cold, hard facts ? Do we need more brainless cheerleading from you ?
To: A. Pole
Really. According to the WSJ, Higher-Paid Jobs Rise at Faster Clip Lower-Wage Sectors Trail For the First Time in Years, In Healthy Economic Sign By KRIS MAHER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL July 12, 2005 In a sign of an improving U.S. job market, the growth of higher-paying hourly jobs is outpacing that of lower-paying jobs for the first time in nearly four years, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by the Economic Policy Institute. The Washington-based liberal economic think tank, which has bemoaned the dominance of low-paying jobs in recent years, compared year-over-year employment growth and wage data for nonmanagerial jobs in 20 private-sector industries. The analysis found that nine sectors expanding as a share of total employment paid about 3% more in average hourly wages than 11 sectors that were contracting in the first quarter. That marked the first time since the most recent recession that higher-wage jobs have grown faster as a share of total jobs. Link requires subscription.
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:49:53 AM PDT
by
sportutegrl
(People who say, "All I know is . . ." really mean, "All I want you to focus on is . . .")
To: Sam the Sham; All
When I see an article from him, it is usally full of BS.. Never mind that unemployment rate is low. Never mind that housing market is booming. Never mind that orders for high ticket items went up for third straight month.
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:50:59 AM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles, the earth/past to the groundhogs)
To: chimera
"For a student looking to start an academic program, that kind of crap is not the kind of thing that will encourage them."
I've come to the conclusion that there is a contingent here, (not a small contingent), that cares nothing about encouraging anyone. They care nothing about their neighbors. The don't give a hoot about anything other than their wallet.
Those stock replies are intended to make them feel justified in their stance.
Newton's 3rd law is in effect on this one.
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posted on
07/27/2005 6:51:34 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(It's not a war on terror... it's a war with islam.)
To: NRA1995
I think no small part of preferring foreign-born engineering graduates to home-grown is in their scholastic performance. Too many here are content to just squeak by on math and science. From my experience, H1Bs are generally not math or science whizzes.
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