Ok, just another consequence of free trade and globalization, we are giving up on our advantage in technology and it affects national security? Who'd thunk that? I guess they don't teach such things when you're in businees school.
To: central_va
Boeing needn’t worry - their new plants in China will have no trouble finding workers. ;)
2 posted on
03/04/2008 11:52:37 AM PST by
Mr. Jeeves
("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: central_va
Dismantle the teachers union. That should fix it.
3 posted on
03/04/2008 11:53:47 AM PST by
kinoxi
To: central_va
4 posted on
03/04/2008 11:56:29 AM PST by
Dad yer funny
(FoxNews is morphing , and not for the better ,... internal struggle? Its hard to watch)
To: central_va
Free Trade( no such thing) is actually surrendering one’s sovereignty one job at time.
To: central_va
Those old “buggy whip” builders now working importing Asian crap can do the job. But what about the America’s next generation?
6 posted on
03/04/2008 11:59:30 AM PST by
endthematrix
(He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
To: central_va
We just aborted about 50 million people in the last 35 years.
That’s where our defense workers went - down the disposal in the local NARAL-PlannedParenthood extermination death camp.
7 posted on
03/04/2008 11:59:37 AM PST by
fishtank
(Fenced BORDERS, English LANGUAGE, Patriotic CULTURE: A good plan.)
To: central_va
Unlike technology companies, defense companies generally have to hire American citizens since they need employees who can obtain security clearance. ...and is recruiting high school students to shadow Lockheed workers on the job.
OK, kid, I'm going into the vault now. You sit out here and keep out of trouble until lunch time. I'll take you to lunch and then when we come back you can sit here until closing time. (Not very many high school kids have their clearance yet.)
9 posted on
03/04/2008 12:00:59 PM PST by
KarlInOhio
(Rattenschadenfreude: joy at a Democrat's pain, especially Hillary's pain caused by Obama.)
To: central_va
Being and engineer for LMCO I can see why so few new engineers want to work here.... The benefits are always taking a hit, the pay scales suck by comparison, the management treats us like crap, the Government treats us worse. I could go on and on... the upshot is that unless business practices change for defense contractors... they will become extinct. Simple attrition will start, and as they pile more and more work on those who remain and pay them less and less while treating us as servants more of us will leave to sell insurance. At least there we might get a little respect for the time and effort it takes to get a engineering degree.
10 posted on
03/04/2008 12:04:00 PM PST by
SouthernBoyupNorth
("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
To: central_va
If we put a dem in the WH, we’re going to have a defense worker surplus. There won’t be jobs, because the defense budget will be slashed to ribbons.
To: central_va
Because, like, it’s so hard to do math and stuff! and why do twe need to learn this junk anyways? I got a job at them mall and they like give me free health insurance and everything and I get $300 per week on minimum wage, but whats thi FICA stuff. And the governbemnt took out a lot of moeny for taxes so when I get it all back at the end of the year i will like be so able to quit for a while and spend the summer at the beach and some junk.
21 posted on
03/04/2008 12:16:35 PM PST by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
To: central_va
Actually, in some ways this could be a boon to the industry. As it stands now, many big projects are seriously overstaffed due to a reliance on "process." I'd guess that the project I'm working on has probably 3x the number of folks it actually needs, with most of the overage being in "process" fields.
A smaller number of engineers just may eat into that "process" side, leaving the design/manufacturing types to work with much fewer meetings and a lot less paperwork.
Of course, the real crying need is for good technical management....
24 posted on
03/04/2008 12:21:09 PM PST by
r9etb
To: central_va
I’m sure we can work out some privatization deal with Spain.
28 posted on
03/04/2008 12:30:58 PM PST by
wolfcreek
(Powers that be will lie like Clintons and spend like drunken McCains to push their Globalist agenda.)
To: central_va
Maybe if the US government lets in another 20 million Mexican 6th grade drop outs......
31 posted on
03/04/2008 12:51:17 PM PST by
Iron Munro
(Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
38 posted on
03/04/2008 1:20:21 PM PST by
polymuser
(Those who believe in something eventually prevail over those who believe in nothing.)
To: central_va
defense companies must compete with the likes of Google, Microsoft and Verizon for the best and the brightest. Pay them and they will come. Stop outsourcing the freaking jobs and provide for some stability, and they will come.
40 posted on
03/04/2008 1:44:42 PM PST by
Centurion2000
(su - | chown -740 us ./base | kill -9 | cd / | rm -r)
To: central_va
There are enough American brains. They used to work in engineering and technology. You’ll find them. They’re at the unemployment center.
To: central_va
While U.S. universities are awarding two-and-a-half times more engineering, math and computer science degrees than they did 40 years ago, defense companies must compete with the likes of Google, Microsoft and Verizon for the best and the brightest.How many of these students are actually American?
54 posted on
03/04/2008 6:32:46 PM PST by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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