This is so much bull crap.
If it were true then China wouldn’t be trying to steal industrial and IT innovations from us all the time.
The government they have in China smothers creative thinking.
But the rate of our people earning engineering degrees has dropped in this country because companies here prefer to hire foreigners rather than U.S. citizens.
having been their recently this is in deed a fact... it is true ... having worked with their science departments they are are leading the thinking in all major sciences. We have cut off thinking in our universities.
Yeah, this free trade idea was a great idea. The only problem is that it is not free as far as our trading partners are concerned. China has attached itself to our economy like a blood sucking leech, and won’t stop until we are a hollowed out corpse. The one true mechanism that would eventually be expected to een the playing field - currency fluctuations has been co-opted and manipulated by China such that we will never get a fair shake from them. Its far too late, I fear as China now owns so many dollars they can essentially flood the market with US dollars and US bonds, essentially bankrupting us in a week. Unfortunately, our politicians are either complicit in this scheme, or they are too ignorant to qualify for a drivers license. Our debt has now become a bargaining chip to the Chinese to use in any foreign policy disputes as they see fit. Now that we can look back at these WTO and NAFTA agreements and see the harm they have caused to our economy its probably a good time to begin to investigate the politicians that were involved and to what extent they were “bought”. If it can be proven they were illicitly involved in corruption alongside their votes, treason is the charge that should be leveled given the irreparable damage they have caused to our economy. It’s long past time for us to demand an end to “free” trade, and also to demand accountability for the damage that has been caused.
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good luck with that.
ever since the H1-b program was signed into law by BJClinton, the majority of entry level positions have been going to people from 3rd world countries.
and without the entry level position... you won’t become a mid to senior level person... the ones they normally look to for innovation
on top of that, since the late 90s, if you wanted VC funding, you better have been using offshore labor to reduce costs, otherwise you won’t be getting the $$
We have exported our engineering. What the hell do people expect?