Reply #29: "Globalization". In which case everything must count or the term is a minsnomer.

[Deja Q]

A misnomer in favor of "migration", "abandonment", "store closing sale", you name it. If scientists and engineers are so important, why are America's being dumped, if the articles proclaiming the hottest offshoring trends have any valor whatsoever? Does America no longer exist, except to be hated by the very countries that love to take our jobs (and whose own cost of living gives them a grossly unfair advantage)?

Besides, Hillary as a (if not the most popular) popular candidate makes India more relevant than ever. Last time I checked, India is not the 51st state and we elect politicians to help our citizens. Globalization can only work so far; it's clear local economies are still just as relevant now as they were 50+ years ago.

Depending on the city one lives in, $97k is a good deal. But as you said, it's not so hot in Manhattan and other posh cities.

And if globalization isn't hurting Americans so badly, then I'd have no reason to be against it. (So shove the "brown people" insinuation; I'm talking the economic reality whose repercussions will hurt America and Americans. There are only so many reasons for the failure of the dollar, and if H1B-heavy Bill Gates could "predict" the dollar's fall three years ago, while asking for more H1Bs and offshoring perks, there has to be more to what's going on than mere "profiteering". Oh, do you believe in "peak oil" like how I don't? (Talk about a spanner in the works...))