Reply #8: what for? If the jobs are going overseas, what are we investing for? [View All]

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If our science PhD programs are overwelmingly foreign born and the foreign born PhDs are leaving the US to return home for better opportunities, why are we paying for this? Obama says that it is important the US lead in R&D ... but how can that hold when our corporations are offshoring their R&D departments? If native born US citizens who get PhD's in the sciences can't get jobs, what are we paying for? We have science students who cant get jobs that will pay off their student loans.

I agree in principle with what Obama is trying to do... but it has to be done in context with a commitment by US corporations to invest in that talent here in the US.