Breaking news: Republicans discover that there are not enough scientific

graduates. Frist making a speech on the Senate floor.

Whining how China and India graduate so many people each year and we are losing our edge, and how outsourcing technical jobs to China and India is bad.


Where were they during the last four years when the Democrats were saying that.

and pell grants that would increase the number of scientific graduates.

The neo-cons may yet figure out that it was the middle class that they destroyed that fueled the economy in this country.
Can't spend the money if you can't make the money

shut down the art factories!

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More!!! More!!!! More!!!!

Who needs more scientific mumbo-jumbo? The public doesn't understand it. Ewwww! It requires lots of icky mathematics. We need more MBAs!!

We are both Science Graduate students (Me: 4th year Chemical Engineering Ph.D. candidate; Her: 1st year molecular and cell biology grad student) so I would have thought she would agree with me that science is the better pursuit.

Anyway, we're watching the Apprentice (she makes me watch) and she says to me, "I should have been a business major, it's a much better degree than Biology because you make more money."

Immediately I start ranting about how Business is a fake major (if your product is really as good as you say it is, it'll sell itself) and that Science is eternal. How many of us remember names like Newton, Galileo, Archimedes, etc.? Now, name the largest wine merchant during the Roman empire. That's the problem though, our society has become brainwashed to think that Business is some important and necessary degree if we're ever to have viable enterprise in this country, but that's the opposite of the truth.

We'll never have viable business models in this country if we stop doing SCIENCE. What are the millions of business majors going to sell (it certainly isn't going to be anything dealing with computers, engines, plastics, pharmaceuticals, software, anything mechanical, anything chemical, anything biological including cures for diseases, etc.) Basically, a business major is a leech, they suck the blood of intelligent scientists who are too lazy (or too busy as the case usually is) to market and sell their products at ridiculously inflated prices. What we need is more Scientists and less MBA's

:rant:

a particular kind of science!!!

There also aren't enough physical facilities to do the work in even if we had the jobs and people to fill them. You can't have scientists when you won't pay to educate our children.

the line like so many other Republican leaders. Santorum, Delay, that's expected, but as a medical doctor, he should know better than to toe the line when it comes to Republican standards on science.

They do everything in their power to kill public education, science education, and science in general, and then they wonder this?

Assholes!

China and India graduate tons of people because the corporations that donate to YOUR party ship all of the latest technology, the R&D assignments and dollars hand over fist to those nations, Frist. They exploit their labor, make the ruling classes here (and over there) exponentially wealthy and destroy the middle class and any opportunity they might have had to GET a science/math related job.

"Did I say help AMERICA'S economic situation? Oh, what I MEANT to say was that offshoring all of this crap helps MY economic situation! Ah Huh Huh Huh Huh HUH!! - The Wealthy, 1980 through 2005.

and now losing our technology edge as well...

America on the other hand won't tolerate poor smart people. Education makes them uppity and they might become democrats.

That's got to be more important than Scientists who could develop new and more expensive ways to kill brown people who don't luv Jeebus....

Maybe they'll eventually burn Frist at the stake because he's cut people open and twiddled with their innards, the BLASPHEMER!

Never fear, though....INTELLIGENT DESIGN will restore Murka to its former GLORY! Our BS and MS holders will be the wonder of the world!

They'll wonder how such stupid and superstitious people ever graduated from college....

Well, I guess the number who believe in Santa's elves must be about the same.

...stem-cell research is evil, and everything was created in 6 days.

That's about all they need (or want) to believe. :grr:

He probably got the idea from a democrat.

(Bachelor degree, Intelligent Design)

so the level in Maths and Science in this country has dramatically dropped. We are losing jobs not only to China and India, but to Europe whose salaries are equivalent or higher than here.

Start forming REAL scientists and you will see high level jobs come back.

Yet they don't.

So let China and India take over. So much the better. It's just business to our corporate apostates.