Educating to Narrow the Engineer Gap
Far below is Kamal Prasad's August 1, 2006, post on SRC with a summary of a number of questions that are part of the opinion that the USA-NASA never landed anyone on the moon...
Them Chinese workers are not so stupid as there US counter parts. Wal-Mart unionized...
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O yeah, free university education always pays off. The only problem is that this does not put money into rich pockets, so better waste money in tax cuts for the rich. And claim that "are not cost-effective". Is easy to say things like "are not cost-effective" without having any clue what you are talking about.
Why not combine this with extended unemployment insurance ? If an engineer lost his job, after the unemployment insurance expire you ask him: "If you want to keep the unemployment benefits, you should enroll into a PhD program".
Yes, it will cost a lot. But maybe not as much as the braindamaged tax cuts. And while tax cuts are invested into offshore research and development facilities to accelerate the US job lost, by this you invest at home to accelerate job creation.
Beside teaching, it is required the student to be interested to learn. What motivation have an highschool student to learn engineering or science when his parents are unemployed former scientists or engineers who lost their jobs to Asia ? And now, scoop poop for a living ?
To gather the interest of kids they need to see that you can get a decent living with math and science. Right now they see only pinpointed CEOs and rich idiots asking scientists and engineers to work for a bowl of rice per day to compete with third world countries.
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No kid want to waste time and money just to be stressed 24-7 that his pooty paying job can be offshored tommorrow. Then the kids won't want to become an engineer or a scientists. And without them US will become a third world country.
A basketball player is respected, appreciated and well payed.
An engineer and scientist is disregarded by the management, told to accept lower and lower wages and to work more for no job security at all.
Choose !!!