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We are no longer a country that produces much of anything,
The toyota camry and honda accord are over 90% made in America. I think your statement is a bit of a fallacy about the USA. We still produce quite a bit.
I would not count on our car industry to enhance our export economy or prevent the continual decline .....
thank the leadersAccording to the broiology, usa will drown in its bullshit.
i mean america is pretty much all the sons of Europe in one huge large land empire with the biggest shit just sayin
will we have the same fate as rome tho?
It sure does look that way. As someone mentioned earlier, we have very little in the way of science and technology anymore. I was just reading an article not too long ago that about 70 to 80 percent (I can't recall) of university students in fields like biology,chemistry, engineering, and math (all the hard stuff I stayed away from, lol) are not from the US. Even when I look at my friends in college (Many of them from India, Pakistan, E. Turkistan (the Xinjiang region of China), Ukraine, Iran, Gulf countries) they all had majors dealing with science and tech. I was the only history major in the group.
Isn't that what a successful and powerful nation is made of? We don't have that anymore and if we don't do something about it the world will look at us in a different way 10 years from now. I don't see Obama doing anything about it (or about anything for that matter), so we'll see what happens.
It sure does look that way. As someone mentioned earlier, we have very little in the way of science and technology anymore. I was just reading an article not too long ago that about 70 to 80 percent (I can't recall) of university students in fields like biology,chemistry, engineering, and math (all the hard stuff I stayed away from, lol) are not from the US. Even when I look at my friends in college (Many of them from India, Pakistan, E. Turkistan (the Xinjiang region of China), Ukraine, Iran, Gulf countries) they all had majors dealing with science and tech. I was the only history major in the group.
Isn't that what a successful and powerful nation is made of? We don't have that anymore and if we don't do something about it the world will look at us in a different way 10 years from now. I don't see Obama doing anything about it (or about anything for that matter), so we'll see what happens.
China is also starting to have problems with regular workers who are realizing that they should get a bigger slice of the corporate pie. I've been saying that for years. Was only a matter of time.
I found it interesting that some one posted about our students going away from the hard sciences due to poor pay, which is a shame. I read somewhere in 2007 that over 60% of MIT grads (business, physics, math, english...60% of ALL MIT grads) went to go work in finance. If the USG sees a long term deficiency here, they need to begin incentivizing by forgiving debt for science majors. We can only rely on foreign brain drain for so long
I also think it is cultural. It never occurred to me when I moved to the states that being good in science and math made me less feminine or more geeky. It was just something expected of us back in the Far East. I had too much self worth to succomb to that line of thinking and it never affected my dating potential once I was in college, but I and my twin were definately a social pariah in the american high schools.
A major difference between western education and eastern (and pretty much all other) education is that in the west we focus focus a lot on problem solving and creativity, whereas in the east they focus on simple memorization.
I never understood that. I find a woman that's smarter than me to be attractive. A pretty empty shell is just eye candy, nothing more - no substance.