[Joan Kerrey]

This country graduates approximately 70,000 new engineers per year, based on a 2004 survey, compared to some 200,000 or more in India and as many as 600,000 in China.

It's only temporary folks. If things keep going like they are we'll end up sending our spys there to steal their technology and American wages will be lower than China's or India's wages. Chinese and Indian governments will be contracting with American companies because of the cheaper labor here. We'll be counterfieting their currency and selling nuke technology to Taiwan, Kashmir and Tibet to make ends meet here.

[only1percent]

It's not quantity, but quality. While many Indian engineering degrees are of low quality, many of the rest of are of superb quality, in part because engineering is the undergrudate field of choice of essentially all the best Indian high school graduates. Whether your objective is to practice engineering, pursue advanced studies in theoretical or research sciences, go into business, or to go into medicine, you still major in engineering as an undergraduate if you can secure a place. (Any other occupation, including law, is seen with a fair degree of disrepute in India, as something only pursued by those without the skill for science, engineering, medicine or commerce.)

[sam_paine]

It's only temporary folks. If things keep going like they are we'll end up sending our spys there to steal their technology and American wages will be lower than China's or India's wages. Chinese and Indian governments will be contracting with American companies because of the cheaper labor here. We'll be counterfieting their currency and selling nuke technology to Taiwan, Kashmir and Tibet to make ends meet here.

Why do you have to be so hysterical when you've obviously never worked with the Chinese. And you use the term "technology" like it's a box of nilla wafers.

I suspect that no amount of information or experience would get you out of your tailspin. And, like the MSM talks down the military in Iraq, your 'death spiral' mantra doesn't help those of us Americans who actually DO compete with the Chicoms.

[theFIRMbss]

>we'll end up sending our spys there to steal their technology and American wages will be lower than China's or India's wages. Chinese and Indian governments will be contracting with American companies because of the cheaper labor here. We'll be counterfieting their currency and selling nuke technology to Taiwan, Kashmir and Tibet

Libertarians
will read your post and go, "Cool!"
They like that future!