Bye-bye engineering, hello massage therapy

WorldNetDaily ^ | April 16, 2004 | Ilana Mercer

[sarcasm]

Pitiful, you don't even know how to post a picture. Maybe you can use your welfare grant to enhance your computer skills.

[Porterville]

But liberal-communist like yourself have eyes, do you not? It is true, I know little about the twisted logic of the liberal, but I am certain I see red Lenin in the post before... Perhaps it is symbolic of your visualization of the world? You can't see red.

[Toddsterpatriot]

So, you would stop the owner of a company from firing employees?

The owner(s) of a public company are the shareholders. Unfortunately, many of the true owners - the people who's money is invested and at risk, don't get to vote!.

That's a great idea to create jobs in America. Make all hiring decisions thru the vote.

That's a nice misdirection.

I'm sorry, where's the misdirection?

[nopardons]

My point in asking the question...who were Conservative GOP presidents, was a wee trap.There has NEVER been and there will NEVER be a president Conservative enough to satisfy the "purists"/MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN THOUERS here. I can prove,no matter who is named,that they wouldn't pass the smell test, that the "purists" use for President Bush, whom I do support,as you surmised.

I'm a pragmatist,I don't expect the impossible from my presidential choices,and I do know history and understand politics.

[A. Pole]

College administrators are already hip to Ms. Chao's future. For example, San Francisco State University is considering the closure of its engineering school.

Engineering is a buggy whip thing bump.

[arielb]

I read through this whole thread and while there's a lot of debating on economics....not one person mentioned that perhaps the educational system in asian countries is simply better than ours??? The culture is also different -parents really want their kids to succeed vs American parents who have no problem with kids watching TV for hours and hours every day instead of working on even harder problems that what they are required from school.
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[Toddsterpatriot]

I mentioned the trend where companies are swallowing up other companies to prop up their real numbers. By adding the revenue from the new companies into the total revenue, it makes the company look a lot better. The amount paid for these companies are listed elsewhere in the financial statements.

Every professional who follows these companies know what earnings were bought and how much they paid. They also follow cash from continuing operations, so they know if the old business is growing or declining.

[FR_addict]

Every professional who follows these companies know what earnings were bought and how much they paid. They also follow cash from continuing operations, so they know if the old business is growing or declining.

Of course, they do. I also follow the stocks and trades of certain high tech companies. That's why the one I mentioned is still at 13, yet they just posted a nice gain over last year. The gain also includes the revenue from the companies they recently bought for $3.65 billion.

When the company was over $120 a share, management was telling everyone that they were immune to the worldwide recession and at the same time dumping their stock as fast as possible. The head of the company at the time was just named ambassador to Ireland and he claimed that was why he was unloading his stock. Many small stockholders were suckered into keeping their stock. It's still at the price of $13 a share.

I doubt if most stock holders realize how bad morale is. I have been keeping track of other high tech companies, especially the ones that are outsourcing to see how they are faring.

Dell has been faring pretty well, even though they outsource, but that's because they have gotten into the lucrative storage market and don't really care about the little guy who has to go through someone in India to get support. Dell was also outsourcing their high end support for their large business customers, but they brought this back to the USA when the complaints started rolling in.

They ignore the complaints from the little guy and that's why I quit buying Dell computers. We have had nothing but problems with their customer support. Finding one who speaks English well enough to understand on the phone is just the first hurdle.

I recently purchased plane tickets from one of the airlines and I bet I was routed through India. Both agents I talked to had Indian accents. The first was hard to understand, the second was understandable.

[Mr. Jeeves]

When I sadly had to leave, I thought to myself, Who's rich? Me, the 'rich American' or these 'poverty stricken' people.

Go personally to some of these 3rd world countries, learn the language, and live with the people and see just how accurate this PPP is.

When a malaria threatens this idyllic paradise, which of the local witch doctors is going to invent antibiotics in time to save himself and the others?

When a hurricane threatens, who is going to build the concrete storm shelters?

When a socialist dictator in a nearby country decides to expand his empire, whose guns are going to keep his thugs from raping and murdering the entire village?

Your post exemplifies the worst instincts in human nature - run and hide and let someone else solve the big problems.

[XBob]

169 - "Your post exemplifies the worst instincts in human nature - run and hide and let someone else solve the big problems."

Apparently you haven't read the thread and the free-traitors arguments.

None of thse are things are the responsibility of anyone but the individuals. It's "every man for himself. Damn everyone else to hell, all profits to me"

Don't you see the free-traitors out there fighting their own battles, building their own roads, doing their own policing?

PS, interestingly enough, I was there with a medical team, bringing medicine and some treatments to the village, not hiding out, but taking care of some of the very problems you specified.

[Yalta]

Extrapolating these statistics from 2001 using the average growth rates from 1993-2001, the number of students with temporary visas will exceed the number of U.S. citizens/permanent residents enrolled in graduate science and engineering by 2021.

[XBob]

171 - "Extrapolating these statistics from 2001 using the average growth rates from 1993-2001, the number of students with temporary visas will exceed the number of U.S. citizens/permanent residents enrolled in graduate science and engineering by 2021"

That's already happened here at our local Lamar University, and undergrad's too in computer science.

[chimera]

College administrators are already hip to Ms. Chao's future. For example, San Francisco State University is considering the closure of its engineering school.

Engineering is a buggy whip thing bump.

Hey, if it’s what “the free market” tells us, who are we to argue, being the slavish devotees to it that we are. To h*ll with innovation and discoveries and the manufacturing base and military capability, money and profits are all that matter.

Probably not many here will recognize the name Pierre-André Couffinhal. He was an attorney and friend of Robespierre during the French Revolution and became one of many infamous Tribunal judges who sent many people to the gallows. Couffinhal was not the brightest bulb on the porch, because when the chemist Lavoisier, who was being indicted (and ended up losing his head) was brought before him, pronounced the judgement “The Republic doesn’t need scientists!” Needless to say, justice has a way. The mobs eventually turned against Robespierre and his cronies, including Couffinhal, who met the same fate he condemned others to.

[A. Pole]

I read through this whole thread and while there's a lot of debating on economics....not one person mentioned that perhaps the educational system in asian countries is simply better than ours???

Just tell me, is the better quality of Asian education the reason or maybe the lower wages/cost/standard of living?

[chimera]

Maybe at the pre-college and pre-grad school levels. But when it comes to advanced education many of them come here. They learn all they can here and then take that knowledge home with them. In another generation they won't come here at all, because they will have re-located the knowledge base to their homelands.

This is the elephant-in-the-living-room that so many slavish addicts to outsourcing and "free trade" won't acknowledge. We're literally selling out our technological future, consuming the seed corn from which future generations of scientists and engineers would have otherwise sprouted). Because if our own children have no interest in studying the sciences (because they see those as dead-end careers made "obsolete" by offshoring and outsourcing), who will be left to teach it if we suddenly come to our senses and decide that, yes, it is in our interest to maintain/rebuild our technological and industrial infrastructure? I suppose they think that we could import the necessary cadre of instructors to re-educate our future generations, but what if those countries who would be the source of these teachers decide that it isn't in their interest to do so? I guess then we have to go back to square one and re-invent all of the technology that we worked so hard to develop and build on our own but then sold out for short-term "profits". Better learn how to make fire from rubbing two sticks together. Hey, Chuck Noland did it...