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Encourage the best and brightest to come to USofA Dec 4, 2009 8:51 PM GMT Encourage the best and brightest to come to the United States. This sounds counterintuitive, but every entrepreneurial immigrant in our country who creates a company and exports thereby creates additional American jobs. Many of our most successful tech companies were founded by immigrants and today employ millions. Where we once welcomed immigrants we now make it difficult for global entrepreneurs to take their ideas to America. Indeed, our convoluted visa process makes it nearly impossible even for business owners seeking to buy American goods and services to come to our country ...An Open Letter to President Obama on the Jobs Summit By Gary Shapiro | Huffington Post, Dec 4 2009http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-shapiro/an-open-letter-to-preside_b_380038.html
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Welcome immigrants who are job generators Dec 4, 2009 8:49 PM GMT We are a country of immigrants, and yet in recent years, we have made it incredibly difficult for immigrants to launch companies in the U.S. Why not create a new visa for entrepreneurs? Increasingly venture capitalists, angel investors and innovators are advocating a "start-up visa" offered to immigrant entrepreneurs who want to start a company in the United States. In 2008, nearly 40 percent of technology company founders were foreign-born; 52 percent of Silicon Valley company founders were foreign-born, including the founders of Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel, to name a few. Why chase these innovators away when we need jobs and should be hanging an "innovators wanted" sign on our front door? ...Job creation? Look to entrepreneursBy By Amy M. Wilkinson | CNN, Dec 4 2009http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/12/04/wilkinson.jobs.smallbusiness.government/index.html
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High Plains Drifter Dec 4, 2009 8:31 PM GMT Innovation is not the forte for guest workers. Where are all the startups that were promised 10 years ago? Unfortunately, the culture praises and respects 'anything that it takes to get ahead' over innovation and creativity, and it's realized by its own.WSJ pulled a columnist yesterday for plagiarism: Wall Street Journal Plagiarism: Article With Quotes By Fake People Removed From Websitehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/03/wall-street-journal-plagi_n_379272.html
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Biggest issue in education facing India 'Cheating Dec 4, 2009 1:08 PM GMT Technology is coming in to address two of the biggest issues that education in India faces: leakage of question papers and forgery of marksheets and certificates. Institutions like Bangalore University and Visveswaraya Technological institute are considering a technology that will enable them to print question papers at the examination venue just an hour before the test. Times of India According to a private research, 68% of middle class students and 75% of high school students cheats in general during exams. Why cheating is so high? We talk of controlling corruption, where the root lay? The only way to find out the root of the problem is to analyze this problem from the standpoint of a student. What rational he uses to decide whether to cheat or not?
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@Ken Dec 4, 2009 7:21 AM GMT If we want to give away Visas, then let us give them to the Koreans and Chinese. They are the ones who are building up small businesses where I live. Most of the Indians are in corporate jobs that were once held by displaced Americans. I am betting my money on the Japanese, Chinese and Koreans. They will save the US, not India.
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ken Dec 4, 2009 7:01 AM GMT As I said, there is no brain to drain in the xenophobes. Do a search on Businessweek's site. Prof. Vivek has been championing these concepts for years. He did the most well recognized groundbreaking research on these and many other topics. You racists need to be deported.
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@Ken R Dec 4, 2009 6:27 AM GMT Yes, the Economic Times article was a link to Wadwha's article but the WSJ article is by PAUL KEDROSKY AND BRAD FELD. I stand by my assertion that Wadhwa has not projected any original thoughts on his own. Most of his writings are like the glossy marketing whitepapers put out by the Big 4 that are big on hot air but low on any meaningful research and studies. I also sense that you are the type of person that doesn't know enough to realize how much you don't know. You are the most dangerous sort and not the ones who are opposed to more immigration. This is a Democracy and 70% of Americans want to halt immigration. That is a fact supported by polls. Now if you are so bright, provide a link showing real facts and real studies that prove immigration and globalization benefits the US. Even the smartest group of people on earth, The Council on Foreign Relations, admit that globalization's benefits can't be proven at this point. Globalization is the underpinning of open borders and immigration. If the CFR can't prove it, neither can you or Wadwha.
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ken Dec 4, 2009 5:33 AM GMT Just googled Economic Times. That is the same as this article -- by Prof. Vivek! Do you know what I meant about the missing brain? These racist comments show this.
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Ken R Dec 4, 2009 12:29 AM GMT I agree these xenophobes don't have a brain, so there is nothing to drain!!
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Ken R Dec 4, 2009 12:29 AM GMT Can someone please deport the idiots polluting these boards. The Professor has written a fantastic article!
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