The Coming Brain Drain

Bruce Garrett ref "The Washington Monthly" ^ | Friday, January 30, 2004 | Bruce Garrett

[vannrox]

....hum.

[Willie Green]

ping

[Smogger]

Funny, Newsweek ran a piece saying how all the Euro scientist are coming to America and Europe can't complete. Their article was very in depth and anecdotal like this piece.

[sauropod]

"My friend says it is like trying to research and do business in the 21st century in a culture that wants to live in the 19th, empires, bibles and all."

Oh the horrors!

The feral Republican Party? President AWOL? Smirking fratboy?

This twit that wrote the article sure convinces me! /s

[Weimdog]

Ping or Zot?

[shaggy eel]

,,, thanx for the ping Willie! I'll be back to this article after lunch.

[anniegetyourgun]

Waddabunchahooey.

[sauropod]

"It's hard to understate how little influence these senators have with the Bush White House and in the GOP-controlled Congress."

Maybe its because they are completly clueless political hacks?

Naah...

[bboop]

Yes, I saw that article just last week about how all the top European scientists were coming here -- the money was better, the research facilities were top-notch; some scientist in Switz was getting $900/mo and the economy sucked eggs.. I bet this is an agenda piece to make the 'conservatives' (who don't want research on body parts) back off. I'll just bet.

[sauropod]

You can e-mail him at bruce@brucegarrett.com

Please do.

[William Tell]

From the article: "... and a tolerance of diverse lifestyles."

The liberals are talking about tolerance for liberal lifestyles. And nothing else.

They are so intolerant of my lifestyle that they have outlawed rifles simply because they have a plastic handle on them. My refusal to register my rifles leaves me threatened with felony conviction.

Their ignorance knows no bounds. The sooner they leave the US, the better off we will be. Let them go to France in August.

Much of the economic success of Kalifornia has come about in spite of liberalism and not because of it. There is no shortage of liberals in Kalifornia today, yet the state is on the brink of ruin.

[cyborg]

This article is crap. There will always be more people with talent flooding into the States than going out. It has NOTHING to do with who is in office either. Garbage.

[Willie Green]

It was a ping to shaggy eel because he's a Kiwi.

[sauropod]

Yes its crap, but are you going to send Bruce Garrett an e-mail?

[cyborg]

Well okay if you insist :)

[Enterprise]

"the feral republican party is well known."

This is just too funny. The writer makes me think of the boomerang throwing kid in Mad Max. Anyway, all I can say to those leaving the country, don't let the door hit you in the @ss on the way out.

[americanbychoice]

I agree. My cousin from Germany is a doctor of Chemistry working at the University of Texas. He is able to do research more freely than anywhere in Europe. Whenever he needs something, he can get it without a mountain of paperwork that will ultimately deliver 1 year latr when it is obsolete.
The Brain drain has been occuring in Europe in favor of the US. How many Nobel prize winners are born overseas and claim america as their citizenship?
Recently I read an articel describing the Brain drain in a German paper. Only 15% would like to go back home. That, my friends, leaves 85% who want to stay here because of better conditions. Even if the pay was the same, a multitude of taxes would bring their net pay down to approximately 30% of what they would earn here.
A little more balance please, I know it is an election year etc. ?

[NotQuiteCricket]

Wow. So, like, since I'm going to vote for Bush, I'm a racist? This author is soooooooooooo tolerant of my lifestyle. ~gag. No, really. I think what is fairly interesting, is that for the most part, a conservative is "do what you want to do, just don't shove it down my throat, and leave me alone." Where as the accepting (so called) liberal is "what are you doing? you can't do/think/act that way, you need to think/do/act MY way." So, who is really more tolerant?

I hate posting when I don't know if a thread is about to be pulled or not.

[LenS]

Using The Lord of the Rings production is not really a good example. First, it's temporary and has already cut back to minimal staff with the final DVD and the Extended Version of the final film. And I doubt that King Kong will have anywhere as big a production staff.

Second, it's the movie industry. The fact that Hollywood with it's high-priced unions and California anti-business climate has driven away much of the business is not news. Much of the industry has already gone to Canada (one of the few industries where Canada is still competitive) or overseas or just out of California to other states. CGI and other post-production work really can be done almost anywhere these days.

In fact, making a film in Hollywood can kill a film on both it's bottom line and in it's quality. Arnie (anticipating a run for governor) took a pay cut and moved T3's production back to Hollywood. This drove the cost up, yet when you watch the film you really don't see any really jaw-dropping effects as seen in LOTR or the Matrix sequels. The cost of the film isn't seen on the screen. But that's what union labor combined with overpaid celebrities gets you.

[Argus]

This is good for a laugh, but the author's just another blogger with more time on his hands than brains. Who cares?