[cyborg]

This article is crap. There will always be more people with talent flooding into the States than going out. It has NOTHING to do with who is in office either. Garbage.

[sauropod]

Yes its crap, but are you going to send Bruce Garrett an e-mail?

[americanbychoice]

I agree. My cousin from Germany is a doctor of Chemistry working at the University of Texas. He is able to do research more freely than anywhere in Europe. Whenever he needs something, he can get it without a mountain of paperwork that will ultimately deliver 1 year latr when it is obsolete.
The Brain drain has been occuring in Europe in favor of the US. How many Nobel prize winners are born overseas and claim america as their citizenship?
Recently I read an articel describing the Brain drain in a German paper. Only 15% would like to go back home. That, my friends, leaves 85% who want to stay here because of better conditions. Even if the pay was the same, a multitude of taxes would bring their net pay down to approximately 30% of what they would earn here.
A little more balance please, I know it is an election year etc. ?