Posted on 03/20/2005 8:11:01 AM PST by A. Pole
Free trade bump!
We insource more than outsource. End of story, you whiner.
US' brain drain is India's brain gain
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1366557/posts
Blah, blah, same old rant about how America is going down in flames. And as always, it's wrong. The late 90s bubble was just a taste of things to come, a prelude. The new economy values knowledge, not manufacturing capacity. Yet this guy wants us to protect and invest in unprofitable and commodified industries. Here's a clue: let the market do its job. It's worked wonders in the past and will do so in the future.
What type of knowledge? What field would you recommend to the students?
These industries are profitable enough to enable foreign countries to buy out American assets on mass scale.
A lot of R&D work is outsourced to India, where scientists have now began to earn hefty paychecks.
NOT true,,,you go to Walmart and its a Chinese bazaar. All your electronics, shoes, clothes, even power tools are imports. Besides bags of wheat and soybeans, what are we insourcing?
Can't just train in one specialization anymore and expect it to last your whole life. I recommend something flexible and useful, like English. (BTW, I'm a comp sci and econ major.)
I recommend a year in the lettuce fields picking veggies in the 100 degree heat.
Nothing better to motivate a high school graduate to better himself.
Why not Spanish or Chinese?
1. The education system is all about social engineering not electronic engineering?
2. Union activism has brought down the steel and most manuufacturing industries.
3. Lawyers and environmentalists have made it prohibitive to build new power plants and refineries, nevermind drill for oil.
Especially Chinese. But you may throw in Hindi with it, or the dozen other official languages of India.
Good one. LOL.
you make a point, but its a sad one.
Yes, other countries have knowledge workers too. And...? My point remains: simply being able to manufacture goods is something that everyone can do, cheaply and on a mass scale. Hence, it's unprofitable. The profit lies in things that can't be easily replicated. That's why the service sector is growing so much.
Maybe Spanish, not Chinese. China has more English speakers than the US anyway.
R & D is the last straw. What it means is that the U.S. will now lag behind innovation, and will not be producing even that at home.
In some areas the U.S. is already a second rate nation, and the numbers of those areas will expand exponentially.
What you see are the useful idiots having their say. They've managed us this far into irrelevence, and seek more.
The U.S. did not become a nation second to none by purchasing products from offshore. It cannot remain a nation second to none by doing so.
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