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India aims to be world's design hub
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| June 20, 2005 16:28 IST
Posted on 06/20/2005 8:36:59 AM PDT by Gengis Khan
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To: Gengis Khan
...so, our kids will not need engineering degrees in the future?
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posted on
06/20/2005 8:49:02 AM PDT
by
SandyB
To: Gengis Khan
So will I someday drive a car called the Veda?
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posted on
06/20/2005 9:00:02 AM PDT
by
GVnana
To: Gengis Khan
We can't all be managers.
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posted on
06/20/2005 9:07:07 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
To: GVgirl
Heard of TATA Indica, Safari, Sumo.....Ambassador....Mahindra.... Reva and so on?
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posted on
06/20/2005 9:23:11 AM PDT
by
Gengis Khan
(Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until u hear them speak.)
To: Carry_Okie
Well, we are not going to be IT, engineering, manufacturing, service, or anything that produces or services. All those jobs will either be outsourced, or immigrants will do them.
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posted on
06/20/2005 9:24:52 AM PDT
by
SandyB
To: SandyB
The same were the economic forces that induced the fall of Rome.
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posted on
06/20/2005 9:36:43 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
To: Gengis Khan
Heard of TATA Indica, Safari, Sumo.....Ambassador....Mahindra.... Reva and so on?Is it your intention to whip Americans into an anti-Indian fervor?
For, regardless of your intention, that is your effect.
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posted on
06/20/2005 9:39:47 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The Republican Party is the France of politics.)
To: SandyB
I am astounded that there are folks here that do not realize that the highest-paying 4-year undergraduate degrees are in Engineering.
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posted on
06/20/2005 9:42:19 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: purvis
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posted on
06/20/2005 9:43:13 AM PDT
by
lucyblue
To: Carry_Okie
The same were the economic forces that induced the fall of Rome. What empire competed economically with Rome? Honestly curious.
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posted on
06/20/2005 9:43:50 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
What empire competed economically with Rome? Honestly curious. Economically, none. Militarily, plenty. The thing is, my dear "free" trade advocate, military protection costs money that isn't found in analyses of "comparative advantage."
Rome imploded economically until it was unable to finance and staff its own military protection. They had to rely increasingly upon slavery, and imported goods to keep things cheap, and a welfare state to manage the citizenry displaced by those cheap goods and services: free food, entertainment, etc. They had the whole kaboodle we are getting with Americans funding globalization via military protection, functioning as a massive subsidy to outsourcing, essentially socializing the risk to delivery of those goods and protecting those investments abroad on the backs of the taxpayers being displaced by those investments.
Because of the resulting welfare state, without the funds to finance the military, they had to outsource that too, just as is being proposed in Congress now to a standing UN army.
Hence the fall.
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posted on
06/20/2005 9:57:40 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(There are people in power who are REALLY stupid.)
To: Gengis Khan
The ability to architect and design complex machines and technology intensive 'gizmos'...and then manufacture and assemble them is not only IMO a long term indicator of wealth and prosperity in the 21st century..it is also a key component of national security.
This idea of freeing up capital (the capital that is being poured into China and India I suppose) for more 'productive' activities here in the US is nonsense...there is nothing more productivity enhancing than technology...it has been A KEY PLAYER in the history of our emergence as a world economic and military superpower in the 20th century. Where the capital goes...the jobs and infrastructure follow...and the wealth eventually as well.
When most of the world other than the US designs and manufactures 'stuff'...eventually, our wealth and standard of living will drastically reduce overall....BUT...the reduction will be hard to gage if you only look at waterfront property and 5000 sq ft homes located throughout the country...the wealth that remains in the US will be more concentrated...and conspicuous.
Gated communities will abound.
What is my solution to this doom and gloom...simple...a carrot and a stick.
Make the US the BEST place to do business...reward those who stay here....penalize those who don't.
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posted on
06/20/2005 10:00:16 AM PDT
by
Dat Mon
(will work for clever tagline)
To: Lazamataz
Whip Americans into an anti-Indian fervor?
Tell me.... how does one whip "Americans" into "anti-Indian fervor"?
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posted on
06/20/2005 10:04:45 AM PDT
by
Gengis Khan
(Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until u hear them speak.)
To: Gengis Khan
Whip Americans into an anti-Indian fervor? Tell me.... how does one whip "Americans" into "anti-Indian fervor"? By declaring -- by implication or by statement -- that India will preempt America as the world's engineering design hub.
But hey, don't let me stop you. You are doing more to fuel protectionism and tarrifs than I ever could.
Carry on.
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posted on
06/20/2005 10:21:13 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The Republican Party is the France of politics.)
To: Lazamataz
It would have been much cooler if you had spelled teryfs right.
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posted on
06/20/2005 10:45:38 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The Republican Party is the France of politics.)
To: 1rudeboy
"I am astounded that there are folks here that do not realize that the highest-paying 4-year undergraduate degrees are in Engineering."
Just wait. It'll turn into another "Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be engineers" thread because engineering is going to be low paying like landscape maintenance is to illegal immigrants.
To: SandyB; 1rudeboy
ooops....how'd I miss the first post?
It started as a "mamas don't let your babies grow up to be engineers" thread!
To: RFEngineer
If you wish, I can ping one of them and he can regale us with stories of his engineering friends telling their kids to go to law school.
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posted on
06/20/2005 10:53:49 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
"If you wish, I can ping one of them and he can regale us with stories of his engineering friends telling their kids to go to law school."
Nah, these threads are more entertaining when you let them develop naturally. We need to practice something like the Free Republic outsourcing thread "prime directive" and not interfere with the hysteria. It's more fun that way.
One thing for sure, if potential engineering students are going to law school, an engineering degree will just become more valuable in the future.
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