And just like that, there were no Ukraine posts any more.
Posted on 10/10/2025 1:21:21 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Billionaire investor Ken Griffin has warned that some of the brightest students from countries like India might never make it to the US and that this could hurt the country’s future. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, the Citadel CEO said the real loss isn’t the $100,000 cost of an H-1B visa, but it’s when a talented student in India or a math and physics prodigy in China chooses to stay home instead of coming to the US.
“Fortunately, we’re in a sector of the economy where a $100,000 one-time cost to hire a person is not going to be make it or break it,” Griffin said. “I worry far more about the brilliant student in India who doesn’t come to America, or the gifted student in mathematics and physics that chooses to stay in China.”
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Back in May, the Republican mega-donor Griffin said the US should hand out visas to foreign students graduating from American universities. “The key is that they need to stay here,” Griffin told an audience at the Milken Institute Global Conference. “It should literally be if you graduate from one of America’s great universities or graduate schools, you just get a visa stamp to your degree. Welcome to America. Stay here and build your career.”
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The Citadel founder also pointed out that many lawmakers privately support retaining more international students after training, but the US fails to implement policies to make it happen.
“That one befuddles me,” Griffin said. “If I meet with members of the House or Senate, they almost always agree with that statement. I do not understand our unwillingness to embrace a path to citizenship for those who come here for their education.”
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I bet you GP has slid as well, but public schools across the country are what I’m referring to, not the exceptions.
US Public schools were never the prime feeder schools for STEM students. Most were not public school grads.
Maybe where you live somehow, but not for the rest of the country.
And just like that, there were no Ukraine posts any more.
Solidarity, brothers! Don’t be sniping at each other.
Play the long game, eyes on the prize. Your brothers may mouth off but don’t forget they are your brothers.
I used to design real time embedded software to control things, like aircraft, cars, or bombs.
Coders don’t do that.
Perhaps Free Republic has not entirely repudiated its widespread support of the thesis of The Bell Curve.
Not all the bright people are Asian, of course, but perhaps a disproportionate number are, and there are an awful lot of them, whether smarter or not. They constitute a powerful resource for India and, especially China, in the existential struggle in the brave new world of AI to come.
More, you have the simple reality that they are far more industrious than our new generation. That the Chinese believe in a 9-9-6 work schedule: 9 AM to 9 PM workday, 6 days a week, tells us we are complacent born of relative (repeat "relative") prosperity.
The Chinese and Indian governments take their obligation to educate this generation in a STEM curriculum seriously, far more seriously than we do, judged by comparing the sheer numbers of graduates. Clearly, this new young generation of Chinese and Indians takes far more seriously the need to educate themselves than do our youth.
Finally, part of the blame clearly rests upon the leftist social engineers of our educational establishment who will always favor a foreign applicant of color over one of our own. Hence, fault is not entirely with the government nor with our entrepreneurs, our field generals if you will, who will either win or lose us this existential war for survival in the new digital age.
When faced with the existential challenge of World War II and, subsequently, of the Cold War, we as a nation did what was necessary to win. That means importing Nazis to build rockets or conduct intelligence in the Cold War. That means after the war repenting for locking up Japanese, and some Germans and Italians. On proactive side, we were happy enough to develop the ideas of one German Jew to build a war-ending bomb.
The answer is not to throw the baby out with the bath, but to protect American workers who are competent against foreign worker exploitation, while at the same time prudently arming ourselves with all the talent we can attract from whatever source to win.
The stakes are that high, and we do not want to replay in the digital age what we did to the Japanese.
The answer is not to throw the baby out with the bath, but to protect American workers who are competent against foreign worker exploitation, while at the same time prudently arming ourselves with all the talent we can attract from whatever source to win.
Personally, I view Trump as bringing many issues to a head to discuss the problem. Regarding India there is a wall and a gate. The gate is high priced right now but there is a gate.
Libs want all gate, too many conservatives want all wall.
Gen 3:24 After sending them out, the LORD God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden. And He placed a flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
God established a good policy of walls and gates. Who is the flaming sword?
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