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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (505043)	12/6/2003 5:04:18 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Entrepreneurialism comes from the middle class. Your statement is way off. Do you actually BELIEVE THIS? The statement is not off in any way. We just apparently have a disconnect re: who "working people" are. We need to create an environment where bright people feel like certain professions especially engineering of all kinds are worthwhile professions to undertake. [countless hours, etc., etc., lotta work required...] I do not disagree with this. But Bush has done nothing to destroy an environment conducive to engineering. What we have at this juncture is a situation where no desk job is worth becoming educated for. This is ridiculous. First of all, I don't consider these jobs the jobs of the "working man," which essentially shows us the disconnect here. Secondly, you are claiming it is just not worth studying to become an architect, a lawyer, a professor, a computer programmer, a medical researcher, an insurance claims adjuster. This is stupid. Despite outsourcing these jobs provide a remarkably high degree of return for those who are good at them. Foreign competition is not lowering the quality bar. It is forcing mediocre performers to justify their pay rates. Thirdly, Bush has not created this environment. Outsourcing was happening long before Bush, during Clinton's administration. Design work etc is being shipped offshore. You can make more money being a mechanic than going to MIT and training as an engineer. Then if in this context money is what most makes you tick, become a mechanic. That is pretty darned simple.