Sunday, January 22, 2012

On being penny wise and pound foolish


The United States is losing ever more jobs and becoming ever less competitive as our universities are cut back and companies move R&D jobs to Asia. We lost 687,000 high-tech manufacturing jobs lost since 2000. Universities cut back 20% on public research. 85% of growth in R&D employment by American companies occurred abroad.
Read the rest at Campaign for America's Future
National Science Board Report: US Losing R&D Jobs To Asia
By Dave Johnson

Oh right, we can't "afford" R & D, or at least to pay Americans to do it.

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