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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (319715)1/9/2007 3:54:40 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (3) of 1576054
 
I don't know about that, Mary. I work with Indians and Chinese in my job. In fact, they represent a large portion of the IT consulting industry and I've found that they are every bit as good. The only problem that some of them have is communication skills, because they are living in the US. However, put them back in their own countries and they are equal in every aspect to an American engineer. What's more is that it is getting harder to attract Indian and Chinese engineers to America because they see more opportunity in their own countries. That's a very big problem for the US because we are currently experiencing a skills shortage to fill a massive backlog in available highly skilled jobs. That will go directly to constraining the growth of our economy.

I know we all used to think of foreigners as somehow unequal to Americans, but folks, we'd all better wake up, because the playing field has changed and the quality of the competition is damn good and getting better every day, while we sit on our thumbs and think we're superior.

I'm saying this as a born in the US American, the son of an immigrant family and as someone who is in the IT consulting world. So I have a pretty good perspective from a number of vantage points. This world is very unforgiving of people who fall behind in the skills race and we're not doing everything we can as a nation to ensure our people stay on the forefront.

Now having said that, I think our post-graduate education is the best in the world, but high schools and below are crap and we need wholesale rethinking of it.

Do you all know that the education budget for this entire country is $70B dollars a year? That's an f___ing tragedy, when you consider that we just spent $500 billion on Iraq and we continue to spend $110B per year in Iraq on Iraqis who sure as hell don't appreciate it. Our priorities are ALL WRONG.
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