Nickname: Nano Guru

Review: I could only commiserate with the unemployed_engineer. However, it would help us to keep an open mind and look for better opportunities outside the U.S., just like the immigrants in question do when they look for jobs. The U.S. is fast losing not only its stronghold, but also its mere grip, on many things, including industrial might, education, science, and technology. To make matters worse, we're picking on all the countries around the world as if we are the keepers of the "democracy" the world over. I say that we stick to our economy and not worry about "democratizing" Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea, etc. So, unemployed_engineers and fellow compatriots, let us look for greener pastures elsewhere and move on.

Date reviewed: Oct 24, 2005 10:02 PM

Nickname: spirit of independence

Review: Spirit76 associates America with George Was, Jesus etc., as values rather giving importance to their contributions. In true spirit, America has been a "land of dreams", freedom and individuality, where everyone tries to make their contribution to society's surplus.By such harsh comments to immigrants, you are essentially contradicting the very foundations of the american dream.I urge you to remove these boundaries and expand to a "Global citizen".

Date reviewed: Oct 21, 2005 2:46 PM

Nickname: unemployed_engineer

Review: About 70,000 bachelor's degrees in engineering are awarded in the US every year. The US admits between 65,000 and 195,000 technical workers per year on H1-B visas. Even more tech workers are admitted on L1 visas. The average Congressperson has figured out that they can use visa legislation to extract money (political contributions) from rich tech tycoons such as Bill Gates. The result is that the US has probably added more tech workers by importation than graduation so far this century. Doctors and lawyers are regulated on a state-by-state basis. An immigrant who wants to practice law or medicine can not simply fly over here and report to work. He must go through a multi-year process of recertification. Even then, he could only practice in one state, and would need to go through another lengthy process to obtain a license in another state. The AMA and ABA like it this way. Lawyers are a protected species, but it is always an unlimited hunting season for American engineers.

Date reviewed: Oct 21, 2005 6:43 AM

Nickname: Nano Guru

Review: "Spiritof76" and "spiritof 1492" should be ashamed of themselves. It is the people like these dim-witted bigots are ruining the USA. Let me quote some facts for you - Jesus is not the only god; Patton is not the only hero, Wahington was the only Founding Father. I can tell ou the "reverse" migration has already started, i. e., Amercians like me have started to work in such countries as India and China. (You thought we were the only country to "import" talent. Also, we are indeed lacking a strong fundamental educational basis (school and undergraduate) college. You need to wake up and smell you know what! I am ashamed to call you a fellow Amercian. Your posting abundantly clearly manifest an absolute ignorance, because you think that only our American heroes are the greatest! Get real, you do not even know anything outside your little boundaries (read township, or village). Americans, like me, would be better served if you kindly kept your opinions to yourself!

Date reviewed: Oct 20, 2005 2:35 AM

Nickname: GOUSA

Review: "One World" is a shadowy political movement that doesn't benefit Americans. We have the greatest country in the world: why should we merge with the rest? It's not bigotry to be a patriot. American citizens should have priority in their own country.

Date reviewed: Oct 19, 2005 1:37 PM

Nickname: JJS

Review: In a society where the focus is increasingly on the 'winner take all' and financial gain is considered the ultimate prize, why would the best and the brightest want to go into engineering when the bigger bucks are in investment banking, law, and business management? If we want our best and brightest to go into engineering then we have to put our money where our mouth is......

Date reviewed: Oct 19, 2005 12:49 PM

Nickname: ProudIndianH1B

Review: To answer 'patriot' Spiritof76, I can only say I pity his profound ignorance. Instead of casting aspersions on 'Third Worlders'.. who have enriched the very society you live in.. engineers, doctors, lawyers, farmers, pilots, grow up and learn to live in the 'New World'. Harrumph !

Date reviewed: Oct 19, 2005 3:33 AM

Nickname: funnominal

Review: "Spirit of '76" would be best served by reading Tom Paine's 'The Rights of Man' where the rights of all individuals are indeliably etched into our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The USA doesn't require membership fees to be admitted. We look for people who feel free to pursue their choice and are guaranteed freedom within the confines of our laws. I'd rather have a hard working immigrant next door than someone who feels entitled to something or other based upon some element of ancestory. King George III was kicked out pal. We don't need another one.

Date reviewed: Oct 19, 2005 3:27 AM

Nickname: One world

Review: With the Internet, the world is already a single family with common goals and culture. It's a wave which cannot be stopped by petty narrow minded thinking that Nations and Individuals have been accustom to in the past.We have to change or left behind.

Date reviewed: Oct 19, 2005 2:58 AM

Nickname: max

Review: "The best and brightest students are pursuing other disciplines, partly because of declining social prestige associated with the field."...pure specious garbage. The best and brightest know what companies like IBM are doing. IBM is shipping its engineering jobs overseas. So why would a "best and brightest" student want to select a career field in which tech companies are making the majority of their new hiring overseas, laying off engineers here in the US, and replacing laid off engineers with engineers overseas. My son is attending college next year and he wants to become a software engineer. I have done my best to discourage him from making this choice, but that is what he wants to do. I am worried for him...no I am fearful that someday he will be working for a company that has degenerated into a hollow shell of its former self. A shell without imagination or courage and whose only means of survival is to compete on price.

Date reviewed: Oct 19, 2005 2:42 AM