Posted on 03/31/2006 6:25:17 AM PST by adorno
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My point exactly. There are plenty of bright American kids who are interested in science. And yes, I know this from first hand experience in education.
Why are we recruiting people from overseas, and not giving American kids with good GPAs who have an interest in s&t a low cost education and the chance at a good job?
I call bs on this.
We'll start seeing these pro-illegal articles a lot over the next couple of weeks
I think there is a myth in our society that the brightest and best students don't need to worry about the costs of their education because of scholarships... but this simply isn't the case. If you don't play football or some other profitable sport and/or aren't a minority, most schools won't give full scholarships. I heard that tuition at Duke University is now over $40K per year.... Even at half-tuition, that will prevent many American kids from attending. That doesn't mean that our kids won't be able to compete. Most state institutions are affordable and many are excellent. But it does limit their options.
Maybe because kids "getting out of college today" are more skilled at raving, chuggalugging and spring-breaking than computer science.
I don't think the tech/science geeks are the raving types -- at least they weren't in my day. Our idea of a wild party weekend was a science fiction convention or a weekend of Dungeons and Dragons!
"I don't see why Bush is pushing the Guest Worker program so hard. We already have one - it's called the H1B program. The problem is that it keeps getting expanded and I've never seen any of these people ever go home. They stay permanently!"
Good! Jeesh, you hear so many people on this forum whine about jobs getting exported to India. Stop and think. We've got the best and brightest from some of these countries coming here and helping our economy. We need to expand this program and keep these people here. This is unlike the illegal criminals coming over the border.
Generally, the Cubans who came into the US had a higher education level and more skills. They had the ability and means to flee Cuba and leave the peasants behind. Most of the Mexcians who are coming here don't have the education or skills.
The Mexicans are coming in far greater numbers. It is unprecedented making it difficult for us to assimilate them. Based on census figures, California has 8.8 million foreign born citizens (in a population of approx 34 million in 2000). This represented an increase of 2.4 million since 1990. The number of Mexican-born in 2000 was 3.9 million compared to 2.4 million in 1990. Given the census methodolgy, I think these figures are grossly understated.
In a state like North Carolina, the number of Mexican born residents has risen from 8,751 in 1990 to 179,236 in 2000. In Arizona it has gone to 435,001 from 150,606 in 1990. 30 of the 50 states now have Mexican-born residents as the biggest portion of their foreign born population compared to 18 in 1990. What we are witnessing is an invasion, which is gathering in size and breadth.
And this doesn't include the numbers coming from the Carribean and Central America. El Salvador (Virginia, Maryland, and DC) and the DR (New York) have the largest representation in three states and DC. The DR popultion of NY has almost doubled in 10 years to 415,000.
Barf-o-matic.
Yeah...I was trying to be funny. It's the graduates in Medieval French Literature that seem to think they deserve a high paying job when they get out. The kids need to assess where the job market needs are, and choose accordingly. This myth about "pick something you love" is great, but it doesn't put bread on the table.
But it's not difficult for them to come here and depress U.S. wages whether they stay or go. Just keep the revolving door open and let's all watch the middle class disappear.
Here is a good, balanced article on the subject: Is There a Science Crisis? Maybe Not
With an unemployment rate of 4.8%, the US economy is essentially at full employment. It is the envy of the developed world. In order to have an expanding economy, we need workers. Immigration, legal and illegal, accounts for our growing population. Without immigration, we would have a declining and aging population like Japan and most of Europe. The dirty little secret is that we need workers period.
That said, we need to control who comes in here so we can have a workforce that meets our needs. Allowing hoards of uneducated, unskilled Mexicans to pour across our border will hurt rather than help our economy in the long run. They are becoming an increasing burden on our social systems and a drain on our resources. They are also artificially dampening wages and benefits for Americans at the lower end of the economic scale.
(Mercury News wire services)
"Harvard University, the oldest college in the United States, said students from families with a combined income of $60,000 or less can attend the school for free.
The new program, the most generous in the eight-school Ivy League, will begin in September, the school said in a statement. Its plan also reduces the amount families with combined incomes of $60,000 to $80,000 will have to pay.
``These increases in financial aid build on and extend out emphasis on recruiting students from low-income backgrounds and send a clear signal to middle-class families who have all too often felt that Harvard and other leading institutions are out of reach,´´ Harvard President Lawrence Summers, 51, said in a statement.
Harvard's program builds on one Summers started two years ago that waived tuition for families earning less than $40,000, making the school the first in the Ivy League to offer such a plan. Since then, Yale and Princeton universities and the University of Pennsylvania have all announced similar programs, as has Stanford University.
Harvard, which has a $25.9 billion endowment -- the largest in the United States -- set its tuition, room, board and mandatory fees at $43,655 last week".
Another perk for Illegals?...
Nope, my neighbor's daughter is extremely bright (over 4.0 GPA) and will be paying her own way through college.
Needless to say, Stanford probably isn't in her future with minimum wage at $6.75 per hour.
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