Riddle me this: if the experience and the tech is overseas, how are we going to be more innovative, especially with our levels of engineers and engineering students falling.
Lawyers and burger flippers aren't too innovative in tech. As for productivity, that's exportable too, especially when its tech driven.
My goodness, you give up so easily.
Look, if the "experience and tech" were overseas, we would be in the same position as the Chinese and Indians—that is, we would have to play catch up. But we are not in that position. As I indicated in a previous post, we are so far ahead of the Third World that all this scaremongering is ludicrous. The Chinese and Indians are having to catch up with us, not the other way around.
That is no reason to become complacent. To stay ahead, we must adapt to changing world conditions—something Americans used to excel at doing. It will not do to give up and declare the whole situation to be hopeless. Or to appeal to the government to shield us from "unfair" competition.
. . . especially with our levels of engineers and engineering students falling. Lawyers and burger flippers aren't too innovative in tech. As for productivity, that's exportable too, especially when its tech driven.
I would like to see more of our students majoring in engineering. That is less likely to happen if they listen to all the nonsense about the engineering jobs going overseas.
I would not disdain "burger flippers"—some of the most technology-savvy companies are in the food industries. On the other hand, feel free to say nasty things about lawyers. One of our biggest problems is that we lead the world in litigation.