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Originally posted by onewhippedpuppy
Actually Pat, I don't recall seeing a single fact or statistic quoted in that article. The last time I heard, it was roughly 50,000 American engineers graduate for every 500,000 Japanese and Chinese engineers. Why they lump those two together I have no clue, I don't gather the data. The article is complete crap, it reads like something from a blog, all opinion and conspiracy theories.
I am an Aerospace Engineering student at Wichita State University, right here in the good old red state of KS. As a white guy, I can now say that I know what it is like to be a minority. Every department is dominated by people from other countries. And when I say from other countries, I mean from other countries, only here for school. I'm not even lumping immigrant families into this. The bulk of our teachers are foreign as well. Many of these students study in the US, then take their knowledge back home. We have a huge outflux of knowledge right now, so it's not surprising that the US is falling behind in innovation in many technical and industrial fields. Despite globalization, we are still in competition with other countries to stay on the leading edge of innovation, and we are losing. Knowledge is power, right?
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You were looking for statistical analysis and didn't find any, that does not mean no facts were present.
That your taxpayer supported school allows foreign nationals to be educated there is a socialist program in progress and of course should be stopped immediately. Fat chance that will happen, it's the same everywhere and is rationalized with the myth
if we let them come here to learn, they'll love us and want to be like us which has been phony from the moment it saw the light of day.
The government schools of the fifty states are for educating the citizens of the respective states and a few from other states and no one else.
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What's wrong with encouraging students to take the hard road, and to fill a need as they do so? Most people I know went to school and got a business degree, now they're making $25k as an assistant manager at Target.
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What's wrong with it that it's another socialist program whose sole objective is to enhance federal government power through funds transfers from those that have it to those that want it. Don't you know that there are already funds allocated to do this? And don't you know that much of those funds goes to the foreign nationals studying engineering at your school and hundreds of other state supported schools nationwide, and has been for years?