[Jim Cane]

Once the pool of Americans pursuing tech careers shrinks, you lose the critical mass required to produce real stars, and hence the R&D edge is lost to offshore talent.

[A. Pole]

Once the pool of Americans pursuing tech careers shrinks, you lose the critical mass required to produce real stars, and hence the R&D edge is lost to offshore talent.

Also if you eliminate entry level jobs - no more people will enter the field.

[bvw]

That's when we will need genuine PROTECTIVE tariffs of rates 50%, 100% and above to regrow what we gave away, or become a second world nation.

An honest tariff rate of 15% now -- the historically fair rate -- might keep us from calamity.