[CasearianDaoist]

Barret wants it both ways. He moves jobs overseas and then bemoans the fact that people are not going into the field.

[Last Dakotan]

Keep your heads in the sand here. Move along, nothing to see here. /sarc Nothing but the underminding of our way of life.

[Fee]

GWB is not deaf and dumb. He deliberately gave tax breaks only to the taxpayers and small businesses in the last tax law proposal. Very little was given to corporation, in order to reduce Democrat opposition. If Silicon Valley wants tax breaks to stimulate high tech business, they need to talk to their Democrat politicians whom many give money to. They are the ones who are destroying the political cover needed to give high tech corporations tax breaks to innovate and expand.

[chilepepper]

...lets go to Mars, hello...

friedmann doesn't get it -- going to Mars could be just the thing we need to break out of our lethargy and the loser syndrome we've been in the last 30 years or so, thanks in large part to the feminists, jimmuh, jesse jackson, and others who have tried to keep our spirits from soaring into the cosmos as is our destiny (excuse me while i wax poetic like)

[kingu]

Ahh, yes, the Asian Tigers. Countries ready to leap forward, ahead of America, in the high technology world. Let's just simply ignore that all those countries are just inches away from shutting everything down at any point in time.

Revolution is a cost of business that I find shocking that high tech companies don't take into account. The wrong leader dies, and boom, every high tech plant is now owned by the military and the company is trying to figure out how to write off future compensation for the families of the victims.

The real meat of the story, of course, is the loss of the trades.. Teachers, scientists, engineers, etc. Why spend 8 years to learn to make them when you can spend 8 months learning how to switch out mother boards at ITT Tech?

But I wonder.. Where did most the scientists who operate JPL and the manned space program come from? What inspired them to enter into the engineer fields? Oh, that's right, space exploration. Obvious for that particular example, but the same can be said for many who entered the science fields. We've been to the moon; that was the first wave. The second wave came from Voyager showing us Jupiter. We need a strong third wave; it's time to get off our collective rumps and get to Mars.

We need something we can be proud about, as Americans, since the leftists deny most the pride of back to back military victories. And to do that, we need to accomplish something that no one else can or will do. Mars or Bust!

And somewhere along the way, as we develop new energy technologies to power an outpost that is six light-minutes away, perhaps we can solve that pesky hydrogen technology problem and change our economy.