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but US companies know that it is cheaper to hire the chinese and indian foreign students in their home countries, then in the US. in fact, we likely have a situation now where US taxpayers subsidize tuition for foriegn national college students - who then return to their home countries and are hired by US corporations at a fraction of the prevailing US wage rate. Isn't that a twisted system?

[Euro-American Scum]

in fact, we likely have a situation now where US taxpayers subsidize tuition for foriegn national college students - who then return to their home countries and are hired by US corporations at a fraction of the prevailing US wage rate.

A few weeks back, I attended the USC Trojan Huddle -- the annual spring football scrimmage they have every year. After the game, they held a fire sale for all of last year's national championship merchandise. And, like always, they have students overseeing the sales and cashiering duties in the tent-setup they have for all this.

This year it was the engineering school who supervised the sale. I made a point of talking to as many students as I could. None were from this country. None. All were on financial assistance. It broke down pretty much on a consistent basis:

Tuition was paid for by U.S. government grants.
Living expenses were covered by their home govertments.
And everyone I talked to was going home when they graduated.

I don't post much on these threads anymore because I've got nothing much original to add anymore. But the tradeoff on this deal is really something to behold.

They get state of the art knowledge on how to support their own (and our) infrastructure.

We get cheap Radio Flyer wagons made in China.

Some deal.

[Havoc]

Hey, it's the whole concept of Work smarter, not harder. Bush has accomplished with one policy decision what it took Osama a handful of planes and mass murder to accomplish.

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Did you catch this beauty?

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., unveiled legislation Tuesday to increase funding for education in developing countries from $300 million to $2.5 billion by 2009. The bill, proposed in an address to the New York City-based Council on Foreign Relations, is designed to help provide basic education for all children throughout the world