[indthkr]

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This has definitely been the trend over the past three
to five years. The American workforce of the future is choosing careers with built-in trade barriers, in spite of what the free trade zealots try to push. Its about the only high paying career field that can't be easily outsourced (and yes, I know about efforts to do this...they're not going to be successful).

Unfortunately, I don't think our legal services industry (or should I say disservice industry?) will help the balance of trade problem very much.

There seems to be a fundamental values issue at work here that I don't think the U.S. is going to overcome (or at least before it's too late). Its interesting to note that every one of the nine members of the Chinese Politburo Standing Committee is an Engineer, including Hu Jintao, the president of the PRC. In the U.S., our elected leadership (and I use that term loosely) is predominately made up of attorneys.

I could be wrong, but I think the current prime minister
of India is either a physicist or an engineer.

[defenderSD]

Yes, the extent to which lawyers dominate the political leadership of this country is truly scary.

[Paul Ross]

There seems to be a fundamental values issue at work here that I don't think the U.S. is going to overcome (or at least before it's too late). Its interesting to note that every one of the nine members of the Chinese Politburo Standing Committee is an Engineer, including Hu Jintao, the president of the PRC. In the U.S., our elected leadership (and I use that term loosely) is predominately made up of attorneys. I could be wrong, but I think the current prime minister of India is either a physicist or an engineer.

These are points which need to be widely disseminated amongst our public policy community. These guys are not rubes. They know what they are doing. And maybe its our policy community that has snookered itself.

[A. Pole]

Its interesting to note that every one of the nine members of the Chinese Politburo Standing Committee is an engineer, including Hu Jintao, the president of the PRC. In the U.S., our elected leadership (and I use that term loosely) is predominately made up of attorneys.

So is this match between engineers and attorneys?

Was there a time when less US CEOs were MBAs?