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Originally Posted by Adam Y.
I would actually have to disagree with that. Right here on Long Island there is a new company that is developing a really really really neat and new technology. They say that they can turn animal byproducts and plastics into oil. Now that is really really high-risk investment. G.W. Bush wants about 1.2 billion spent on researching fuel cells. Everyone knows about IRobot and the Rhoomba vaccum. Google still wants it's employees to work on their own projects to improve their company.
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SAYS they can turn animal byproducts and plastics into oil, I'll believe that when the government approves it and it hits the market. Won't even barely mention Bush in the conversation. He has done his best to get rid of all Democrats on national scientific boards (most decent scientists I know are Democratic) and he has replaced them with his own ultra-conservative cronies.
Maybe I'm being overly nationalistic here, and actually, I may be a culprit of outsourcing as I'm thinking about going to McGill for college, but I am thinking about leaving the US for other reasons. My "nationalism" is basically I want to see every US citizen who is willing to work hard to get a job. Other countries have great technology and stuff, but as long as I'm a US citizen, I want to see the US do well. If I move somewhere else, I want to see that country do well. Right now, outsourcing is not doing the whole country a lot of good.
Quick comment about the Space Program. While the Mission to Mars is absolutely incredible, let's not bash Japan's space program when the US has not put anyone in space since the Columbia incident.