[CasearianDaoist]

WE NEED OUR YOUNG PEOPLE TO GO INTO MATH, SCIENCE, ENGINEERING

Why should they when they have to compete with third world outsourcing.

These people are irrational. First she says "well, it is just at the margins," and then she says "well it is only chip manufacture, sofrware and EE." Outsourcing will destroy are technical lead. What will these people say then.

It is madness, pure madness. They have forgotten how the world works. Too bad the rest of us have to pay the price.

[somniferum]

WE NEED OUR YOUNG PEOPLE TO GO INTO MATH, SCIENCE, ENGINEERING


Hmm.. speaking as a college Senior (who is kicking himself for spending the last 3 years pursuing a MIS degree), not many people I know are going into CS or Engineering because of worries over the job market.. and people who are currently in those fields are switching to other fields. I myself do not plan on playing the IT game, and will be attending Law School next year.. my girlfriend, formerly a mechanical engineering major, read the writing on the wall as well, and will be starting pharmacy school next fall. What will do, as a country, when our native technical base is gone? We cant all be lawyers, managers, and healthcare workers and still expect to remain the superpower we are today.