The Coming Brain Drain

Bruce Garrett ref "The Washington Monthly" ^ | Friday, January 30, 2004 | Bruce Garrett

[LenS]

Of course, to the Democrats, Hollywood is one of two industries that matter (trial lawyers being the other). *g*

[sergeantdave]

Since the socialists want to leave America, let's help them out, and show them how smart we are.

Now, Marxists are ecologically minded, so the best way to get rid of them would be to build a slide from mid-America - say Kansas - to Paris. Then we tell them to climb the slide, sit down and slide away to Fourth Reich Europe, all without using any energy. We could call it the "Socialist Slide to Hell."

Now, how tall would the slide need to be at the top?

How many miles long?

How many hours would the trip entail?

What would be the top speed on descent?

Should we build a trap door at mid-point and plant sharks?

[FITZ]

the greatest single project in recent cinematic history was internationally funded and crafted by the best filmmakers from around the world, but not in Hollywood...

The two examples in this article seem to be us losing Hollywood (good riddance) and us losing stem cell experimenters (another good riddance). Not really much brain drain if your talking about Hollywood.

[RightWingAtheist]

The sole reference this guy provides is Richard Florida-yet I distinctly remember a very long and well-researched rebuttal to Florida's thesis which was posted to the forum. Does anyone remember the title?

[Cicero]

The only firm fact I get from this article is that the writer and his leftist friends hate George W. Bush. So what else is new?

[shaggy eel]

,,, it seems that "talent" is leaving Germany as well.

[blam]

",,, it seems that "talent" is leaving Germany as well.

That was a long lunch.

[Dark Wing]

FYI

[shaggy eel]

,,, "we'll do lunch" is actually the main reason for the brain drain to the Antipodes!

[Quix]

Censure for no barf bags provided.

Actually, the HYPORATS tend to live off the creativity of "fundamentalists," conservatives, etc. while blaming them for 101 ills the selfishness and greed of the HYPORATS have fostered.

It is wishful delusion contrary to statistical facts that more creativity, innovation and genius has arisen from the rebellious, God-hating, hedonistic, selfish, lazy, living-off others socialists who's major claim to fame is Olympic class whining.

Check out Jewishness and Nobel Prizes as well as other major inventiveness and scientific progress in your favorite search engine.

It only stands to reason, those walking closest to THE CREATOR tend to be the ones demonstrating the most creativity.

Besides all that . . . talk about stereotyping . . . I thought socialist commie liberal idiots were against stereotyping--oh, that's right--only when it serves their selfish or globalist tyranny goals and priorities.

Sigh.

/rant

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

For the same reason [that]

poor white racists will reliably vote into power politicians who they know will keep them poor and their children illiterate, so long as they share their racist views,

The "poor" (meaning, people whose material standard of living does not compare favorably to that enjoyed by Queen Victoria) have been notably willing to vote for Democrats whose bread is buttered by unions which are adamantly opposed to improving the management of schools which are notorious failures at educating poor kids, and poor black kids in particular.

the American right will cheerfully accept a banana republic America that lowers their standard of living year after year after year,

Since it is Democrats and not Republicans who are opposed to profit from success in business, it is hard to see a basis for that canard, either.

so long as their government keeps the faces of anyone with a shred of creativity and intellectual curiosity shoved firmly in the dirt.

It is not Republicans but PC enforcers in academia and in journalism who endeavor to accomplish that, with unconstitutional "hate speech" codes.

[LowCountryJoe]

Oh, you can bet that I'm going Spam the dog---k out of this clown. Every piece of s--t that comes my way will be forwarded to his address before I delete it.

On second thought, now that I've relaxed some, maybe a sarcastic note will be in order. It's the more mature thing to do.

[sauropod]

Yes. But be sure to accompany the rapier with roses. Its so much more effective.

Totally unnerves them.

[spodefly]

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[BobS]

"You don't have to be a Democrat to recognize that the political polarization of America and GOP dominance of Washington are not necessarily good news for America's economic future."

And RATs won't bring us into international socialism and UN rule?

[Meldrim]

Yes, precisely. There are numerous solidly Republican areas around these great "centers of creativity". They are called suburbs and that is where all of the Republican engineers and scientists go home to live with their families.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

"The contempt for art and artists among the reactionaries and fundamentalists"

I don't know whether I'm a reactionary or a fundamentalist, but I sure have contempt for most of the "art" that comes out of Hollywood.

Why don't some of these other liberal "artists," like the Baldwins and Babs, take the same road to New Zealand? Is it the airfare? Surely we could take up a collection...

[kittymyrib]

I suspect this is just another gay having a pity party. Good riddence to all of them...just don't ask us to pay for your AIDS drugs when you've gone.

[William Tell]

Meldrim said: "They are called suburbs and that is where all of the Republican engineers and scientists go home to live with their families."

Yep. Liberals are, of course, "pro-choice" when it comes to killing the unborn, but they were particularly unaccepting of my wish to have my children attend the school of my choice. Only after my second appeal to the county school board and one year of private school did they get the message.

[GOP_1900AD]

"The contempt for art and artists among the reactionaries and fundamentalists that are now the aggregate bedrock of the feral republican party is well known." What a joke. A mini life story in one paragraph. I was raised in the Blue Zone (heck, still live here) by very Liberal parents. I went to the Marxist Univ of Calif at Santa Barbara (where they burned the bank). I was groomed to become one of these idiots who are now "fleeing oppression." In retrospect, I was never more oppressed than when I still felt juvenile urges to fit in with the hip Che Guevarraesque cliques. How liberating it was when I finally grew up. To those who would rather leave it than love it, I say "good riddance, don't let the door hit you in the a&$!" ;)