Posted by
Arnie on Friday, June 01, 2007 9:20:42 AM
Hillary being Hillary, talking to a fundraiser of silicon valley techies tells them what they want to hear. "If you think you have a skills shortage now, project it out a decade and we're going to be in real trouble." This group is running short of the brainpower to do all the high tech programming to meet the future needs in the technology sector. So Clinton adds her solutions to the problem. And they applause, bow down to her brilliance, and open their pocketbooks.
“We need to guide immigration reform to attract and retain foreign-born students who want to work in the United States."
“provide financial support to schools that encourage girls and minorities to study "STEM" subjects: science, technology, engineering and math.”
“Increase federal research and development budgets 50 percent over the next 10 years at the National Science foundation and the Department of Defense”
“Establish a $50 billion "Strategic Energy Fund" that would create a research agency focused on reducing the threat of global warming.” Read more.
No one has asked this question. Why does the United States have to look outside the country to fill highly technological jobs? We have an educational system from age 5 up through age 18 that is publically funded and mandated with an astronomical budget and we can’t produce enough scientists out of the millions of kids who attend these schools for 12 years. America has higher education schools that specialize in everything and anything. It’s available to all, and the financial assistance programs make it feasible for any wishing to take advantage of it.
Why then is there a problem finding people to fill these positions? I guess that’s not a proper question to ask, as it would require looking critically at our own system. A system that is inadequate to meet our needs. Instead, Hillary Rodham proposes spending additional huge amounts of money for research and development so that foreign-born students can take advantage of our system that our own students will not.
Something is wrong here when the greatest country in the world with the largest economy in the world, with the most individual freedoms in the world, with the most opportunities in the world, with the largest government expenditures of the world, with the best availability of public information in the world cannot educate the populace.
When that problem is solved then most all others will disappear. But, that would not be good for liberal politicians.