Sorry, but you want someone who is WORSE than radical muslims as an ally? ARE YOU FUCKING HIGH? Also, you say you hate globalism, but what do you think of his cabinet picks? Being all pretty much fucking globalists. Especially Tillerson and all the Goldman Sachs douches. I mean Trump himself is a globalist. He manufactures in Mexico, China, and Bangladesh. He has golf courses and hotels all over the fucking world and then he is starting businesses while on the campaign trail with those Muslims you hate so much. But lets gloss over those facts right?
Muslims aren't any worse than Christians. While Christians may not commit as many terrorist attacks as they used to, but they are political terrorists.
Oh god a humanities guy...
Would they move out of America? Oh absolutely. In many respects, they did years ago.
I'm a computer scientist. I got my BS and MS at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, a leading global science university. My employer is owned by Google.
Over half my friends who I went to school with, most of them Americans, work outside the country... many in Asia-Pacific, specifically places in India, Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore. We American-based people travel a lot. The pay is better. The opportunities are generally better. The cost of living is lower. The only reason I'm not doing that myself is I'm very family oriented and I have a patriotic streak.
While the United States gets involved in these ridiculous navel gazing episodes over "what is the proper role of government" and "how much should we spend on discretionary things", the rest of the world is dropping money aggressively to catch up and erode our technological edge. And they are succeeding. The gap is half what it was a decade ago. Maybe less.
My career is robotics. I'm lucky to work at a company that is well funded. Most robotics work in this country relies on NSF grants, that have sharply declined over the last 10 years. But you know where government and public-private financing in robotics hasn't declined? Japan, China and South Korea, which have in some ways superior programs (and inferior in other ways).
In other words, we "globalist" techies have options, and believe me... you need us a hell of a lot more than we need you. Some of my colleges will probably never come back... they made lives elsewhere. And once they're gone, they're gone. I'll never leave, but make no mistake: there is nothing to make America immune to brain drain. 75 years ago, an entire generation of European scientists fled to the United States and with our support and American scientists, turned us into the most technologically advanced country in human history. In the 1990s, the cancellation of the super conducting super collider saw America give up 50 years of physics dominance, back to Europe, and breakthrough physics fled back across the Atlantic. We'll never catch up. It blew a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Consider that a warning, as you engage in your populism - the educated leave, and it screws the people left behind.
Creating millions of jobs in the United States would be almost comically easy if we could get out from under our veil of ignorance.
Infrastructure - every state is falling apart. A trillion dollar 10+ year infrastructure revitalization would be a good start.
Alt Energy - solar power plants replacing coal factories and mines. Include training - literally take a coal miner and stuff him/her into a class.
Govt subsidize it so the pay works out well.
Automation - work with companies currently staffing manufacturing plants in other countries to bring the production back here.
Ah, I can see why you'll adamantly defend your company being a huge leech on America then. Don't shit in the place you eat afterall.
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Oh I agree completely, but things like Pacific and Mexico deals to export cheap labor and then import their goods for nothing are the first hurdle, and as much as people like Skroe cry about it, Trump is fixing that.
I look at both sides views and I see nothing but a war for your mind. It's all about who can score the most votes and the biggest ratings.
We need a complete "reset" of everything, if you catch my drift.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...n-Intelligence
This thread is a great place to start.
Listening to his joint press conference with Netanyahu yesterday just reminded me of this. His vocabulary is so basic, he obviously had no grasp of the policies involved, and I just really felt embarrassed for any foreign leader that has to stand next to him and pretend that this is normal.
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