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To: harpseal; Gothmog
I refer you back to Gothmog's post...

Like her, hard-working, motivated, intelligent, etc. The ones that stay in China (according to her) seem to be the flip side of the coin.

Long-term, if we drain the brains from overseas then they won't present as grave a threat, right?

I'm thinking that even if they're eventually shipped back to their homeland, then they might not be as anti-American as they might have been had they not lived here.

The flip side, is, of course they will understand us and our weaknesses somewhat better having lived here...

On the third hand, as an American-born scientist, I'm concerned about retaining our native capability to do research...

So, overall, I don't know...

247 posted on 08/12/2003 10:28:36 AM PDT by Chemist_Geek ("Drill, R&D, and conserve" should be our watchwords! Energy independence for America!)
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To: Chemist_Geek
Long-term, if we drain the brains from overseas then they won't present as grave a threat, right?

Like I said they do not have immigrant status.

I'm thinking that even if they're eventually shipped back to their homeland, then they might not be as anti-American as they might have been had they not lived here.

You are thinking that do you have evidence to support it or merely your thoughts.

The flip side, is, of course they will understand us and our weaknesses somewhat better having lived here...

No comment becuase this is really irrelevant to the H1B discussion or L1 discussion. On the third hand, as an American-born scientist, I'm concerned about retaining our native capability to do research...

Then you should be concerned about new opportunities for recently degreed individuals in teh hard sciences and engineering.

So, overall, I don't know...

I note you did not comment on the issue of putting Americans out of work and depressing otehr Americans income by the government artificially manipulating the supply of techinically competent people.

252 posted on 08/12/2003 10:35:51 AM PDT by harpseal (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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