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They are just realizing this now? You cannot retain R&D for an industry you don't have. Its like saying the US is the leader in R&D for the consumer electronics industry; nonsense, Japan and Asia have the industry, they have the R&D.

Of course people are bailing out of college education in this field. Who wouldn't? Its going to fall further, much further, as techies in industry now (or who have lost their jobs) steer their own college bound children into other fields because they see what is going on. Law school applicants are piling up, the tort laws are going to have to become even more lax to fund the salaries of the millions of new lawyers we are producing.

The free trader freepers continue to put their heads in the sand, as does the Bush economic team. The US leading exports after aircrafts are all farm products (unless you count jobs exports), free trade and globalism have turned our export business into a pre industrial revolution model.

The WTO was formed to shift the economic balance of power away from the US, and its working. And too many conservatives are happy to see it occur if it means they can get a $10 shirt or a $39 DVD player.

[Cronos]

The WTO was formed to shift the economic balance of power away from the US, and its working.

More conspiracy theories?? The WTO is purely a forum to work out international trade disputes.

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Its going to fall further, much further, as techies in industry now (or who have lost their jobs) steer their own college bound children into other fields because they see what is going on.

*sigh* Yeah. I'm at a total loss as to where to steer my kids.

What job can't be outsourced? What job is immune to insourcing with call-it-anything-but-an-amnesty-amnesty "guest workers?

I know of only one, President of the United States.

And Ahhhhhnold is working on eliminating the native born Constitutional restriction from that job...