[Maria S]

"How much longer will parents shell out $100,000 for a college education for a son or daughter who ends up employed as a bartender, waitress or temp?"

I think NRA1995's reply:"I think no small part of preferring foreign-born engineering graduates to home-grown is in their scholastic performance. Too many here are content to just squeak by on math and science."

pretty well sums it up. Maybe if a few more spoiled American kids had to pay for their OWN education, they'd be more involved AND committed. I come in contact with both foreign and American students...I'd hire the foreign one over the American every time. East Indians, just as an example, are probably NOT smarter...they're just willing to work for what they want. They have not been handed everything and appreciate what their earned money can buy.

[GingisK]

:"I think no small part of preferring foreign-born engineering graduates to home-grown is in their scholastic performance. Too many here are content to just squeak by on math and science." pretty well sums it up.

You are actually quite ignorant concerning what is happening in this country. I have a BS with honors in Computer Science (Engineering based), with Physics and Math "areas". I graduated in 1972, so I've been in the industry for over 30 years. I have four eight-foot bookshelves crammed with books about my trade ... and I have read them all. Yet, it is difficult to find a decent job in the field now.

The difficulty in finding a job is purely because they are no longer available; however, they were bountiful merely five years ago. The difference is that American companies, practicing the "United We Stand" mantra, have sent the jobs offshore.

They are gutting America in order for temporary inflation of the bottom line. Wise up before it is too late.

[auntyfemenist]

This may be far afield of our topic, but while we are on it...If American colleges and universities would not devote so many resources to "fun days," all Greek housing developments, goofy games (and other such distractions), a hundred different activist organizations that have nothing to do with education and the holy grail of every university: football and sports, then maybe students in the US could actually pick up some real education.

College is just an extension of high school, complete with costume Friday and pep rallies on the green. Adult students should be concerned with applying themselves to preparing for their serious careers, not bungee jumping from a crane in the parking lot on goofy game day.

[iconoclast]

I'd hire the foreign one over the American every time.

What kind of human being relishes sacrificing his fellow Americans to satisfy their own short sighted ideology?

[Junior_G]

I come in contact with both foreign and American students...I'd hire the foreign one over the American every time.

Patriotism stops at the pocketbook, huh? You are a true "Citizen of the World".

[A. Pole]

I'd hire the foreign one over the American every time.

Is it legal? Do you hire younger over the older ones? Do you hire whites over blacks? Do you hire Catholics?

[austinite]

I come in contact with both foreign and American students...I'd hire the foreign one over the American every time.

All the more reason to stop the H1-B visa program NOW. I really hate that.

[Andonius_99]

Maybe if a few more spoiled American kids had to pay for their OWN education, they'd be more involved AND committed.

That's what I'm doing...takes longer, but let me tell ya, I'm earning my degree in more ways than one!

[ExitPurgamentum]

Thank you, Maria, for restoring some sanity on this board.

When it comes to economics, it's foreigners fault, Bush's fault. Everyone is guilty but ME.

The U.S. economy is in better shape than it has ever been. Those that don't get reveal how much they know about their own country. And, if the best economy is not good enough, they should move to a socialist country.

IN any case, they should not impose socialism on us.