Reply #66: The reason why they fail is because of cost of living...

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The equation is such that those who might become prospective engineers here and want to have families *HERE* see working in technology as not being worth as much as other better paying jobs here that aren't "outsourced" as much to foreign workers. Especially when one considers the amount of talent, investment in education, the pricey locations one has to live in to work in these professions (Bay Area, L.A., Boston, New York, etc.).

We may come across as being less "trained" than our counterparts, but I would counter it is kids seeing (rather smartly I might add) that they are better off training themselves for other professions than the "outsourced" engineering profession.

Throw all of the dollars at education you want, there's a fundamental cost issue that is facing us, and a government that doesn't want to provide incentives for domestic companies to hire domestic workers, and you have an equation where our nation's workforce technical expertise is going to decline and decline and decline further... It is only capitalism at work here. Not some notion of our schools failing.

CEOs of these companies still want to have companies' headquarters here and live here themselves. I think our government should utliize this motivation to force upon these companies the choice of having their head honchos being able to live here *and* have to deal with taxation rules, etc. that force them more to hire domestically, or tell them that they can have their executive staffs live overseas, where they become just another foreign company. Then, in order for these CEO's, etc. to want to "save money" by outsourcing our jobs, they have to make a choice of being able to do that *AND* having to move overseas themselves, or stay here and live by our rules to revive our workforce and our economy.