The Coming U.S. Brain Drain

[Yavin4]

As we regress into a Christian Corporate Facist Theocracy, you will see a major U.S. brain drain. If you're a highly educated young person studying medicine, education, politics, or the law, would you want to build a career in a nation where religious bureaucrats make decisions for you? Would you want to build a career in a nation where you can expect a limited income because you're forced to work at the same wage as someone in a Third World nation?

Imagine being a teacher and you have to teach your students that the world was created in seven days. Imagine being a lawyer where you have to try cases in front of judge who's a religious zealot. Imagine being a doctor and not being able to do research because it may violate Christian teaching.

If you don't think such a world exists, then look at the Middle East nations. There, a razor thin slice of the population is disgustingly rich and the rest of the population is dirt poor religious fanatics. That's why the best, brightest, and moderate Arabs live and work in Europe, Canada, and the U.S.

[ProfessorPlum]

1. don't worry

our failed public educational system will make sure that we don't produce that many highly educated people. Problem solved!

[Yavin4]

2. That's Another Thing

Are the very brightest amongst us going to send their children to public schools where they indoctrinate the children into Christianity? Remember, not every well educated person has the ability to send their kids to a private school, and in most parts of the nation, there are no private schools to send their kids to.

[ProfessorPlum]

9. My family is homeschooling right now

I tell people it is because they will get too much religion in the public schools. That usually gets a laugh because the reasons cited for homeschooling are usually just the opposite.

But we are doing it so our kids get a really good education. My wife is really dedicated to it, and I've been teaching the kids literature, geography, music, and comparative religions. She takes the hard stuff!

But we go to church, too. I feel it is important to the kids to feel like part of a larger outside community, so they don't get sucked up by some cult group when they get older.

I just don't know where most "Christians" get off supporting this fool.

[bemildred]

3. Not coming, already here. nt

[Catfight]

5. Indeed, past tense. n/t

[ladjf]

4. A very powerful post!

[sub.theory]

6. Yep. I'm a scientist. I'm getting out.

Once I have my degree, I'm leaving. Taking all those tax dollars America invested in my education and investing them abroad. See ya America. You screwed me over too many times. I'm sorry, but our relationship is over.

[Dudley_DUright]

7. Me too, I have my degree

and have been teaching science at the University level for many years. The wife wants to consider moving to Canada or England. On the other hand it is tough to walk away from a tenured teaching position, no matter how bad the situation gets.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. Not easy

I know English and Canadian academics who are here precisely because they cannot get a tenured or even a non-tenured position in their home countries.

[xultar]

8. Buh - Bye!

[DrWeird]

10. I myself am considering a move...

as soon as I've finished my defense.

[Mandate My Ass]

12. It has already started

I work at a major university. People are bailing. Important research is going overseas, or being outsourced if you will. Au revoir.

[Yavin4]

13. Imagine If You're Gay

Gays and Lesbians have built some of the strongest communities in America. The "Gay" sections of most major urban areas are some of the prime real estate areas for the entire city. Think Greenwich Village, NY or West Hollywood. Gays and Lesbians are some of the smartest, hardest working, creative people that we have in our country.

Do you think that they will remain in a country where they're considered the despised class and have constitutional amendments officially discriminating against them?