[Peter from Rutland]

Siemens is one of our main competitors. He’s talking about chemical engineers and hardware and software engineers familiar with fluid process control among other things. Rare talent.

[driftdiver]

Siemens spends billions bribing government officials around the world. Its part of their sales and marketing plan.

[mad_as_he$$]

Exactly and they want to pay them squat. I hate Siemens with a passion. They have customer hostile service. One of their sale reps showed up last month trying to sell me their PLC line — which in IMHO is slow clunky and has lousy support. Clear that it wasn’t the first time he had heard that!!

[Ron H.]

That is possibly true but one point can be easily made and that is America 45+ years ago lead the world in education, training and production and today the last time I looked we are way down the ranking list. As a nation our world ranking is slipping continuously and it is only getting worse. The US no longer turns out the properly trained labor force it would need to reclaim its once vaulted position of manufacturing capital of the world that we once enjoyed.

Our economy cannot survive on service sectors jobs alone. Without someone actually making something then what is there to repair or to service and to sell to other nations?! We have become one of the worlds largest debtor nations in just over 4 decades and it isn't getting any better any time soon. What a shame.

[muawiyah]

What he's asking for then is for the USA to pay for training people versed in extremely specialized work ~

Did this guy realize he runs a FOREIGN COMPANY?

[Lazamataz]

I’m a software engineer. I’m actually in the process of developing some browser addons for Free Republic. They could hire me, but I’m already employed and too expensive for them.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Thank you.