Writing on the wall. (Score 1)

The reason that most students do not go into engineering or technical fields any more is that they see the writing on the wall. They have seen friends and family members jobs already going over seas for the last ten years slowly but surely creeping more and more into the pocket protector fields. Medicine is next with the insurance companies looking to fly people to India for selective surgeries. Right now people are flying to India for surgeries that are not covered by their policies and getting the same results for a 20th of the cost. Some hospitals in the U.S. are contracting with radiology firms in India to evaluate X-rays from digitized images - I know this because a relative of mine who is a Doctor has seen it at the Hospital He's doing his residency at. There is a since of Doom and Gloom in the U.S. about meaningful careers. I wonder were will it stop. Will U.S. air traffic controllers be setting in Main Land China someday because someone thought it was a great idea to develope and install (on the tax payers dime) even faster and practically instaneous latancy connections to them. Some may believe that I think less of those in other countries and guess what your right. I have that rare disease today know as Pariotism. When governments and citizes alike in other countries take care of there own by changing laws or creating tarrifs and actually enforcing trade agreements it's just fine. When the U.S. does the same thing (or attempts to) watchout, we are seen as emperialistic, uncaring, economic fear mongers. The U.S. has become the economic and educational whipping boy of the world. Everybody and anybody can come here and reap the benefits of our education, free society, enormous business grants for immigrants and when they are fat and through sucking the tit completely dry they leave taking back to their country everything they have earned and learned. Don't get me wrong - immigrants have made this country what it is today but it is the immigrants of the past that have done that not mostly the ones that come into this country today and recently. I am third generation Polish. When my Grandparents (on my Father's side) came to the U.S. my Father was already 6 years old and spoke Polish for that of a 6 year old. After arriving my Grandparents wanted him to learn English and they themselves took classes to learn English. Today my Father speaks very little Polish and I speak about 5 words of it. We recognize ourselves as Americans first and of Polish decent second. The lack of this desire to become apart of the American Melting Pot is one of the main problems with our country today and echoes into our government, education, society, and economy. My Grandparents came to this country to not only have a better life for themselves and their decendents but to be Americans. Our schools have been forced to have 3 and sometimes 4 translators in the classrooms because no one thought it important to learn the language of the country that they are in. We even have translators in the military, not for teaching English but for actual combat situations to commincate to our own solders. We have ballots printed in California in 23 different languages. What better way is there to keep our country divided than to not have everyone speaking english. And that is the problems with politics. Many politicians do not want members in their disticts, of a specific persuasion, to be forced to learn English. They would then not be the only candidate that those voters could understand. This country is so divided that it is starting to lose a since of itself. I constantly hear others that have become U.S. citizens that their country is a great country to which I respond "Yes, the U.S. is a great country" but they correct me by telling me they were speaking of the country they originally came from. I sometimes respond "If it is such a great country that you came from then why are you here?". At the beginning of the Conflict in Iraqi when the French Government made some very misguided comments about the U.S. how did U.S. citizens react - they boycotted French resturants in New York which had no effect on the French government but only hurt Americans. This is a small example of the divide in this country between Citizens of diffent origin. Citizens of other countries have no doubt about their loyalties to their country but here in the U.S. you are likely to see 20 different country flags on car windows and bumpers in a days drive. Most immigrants today are not willing to make an investment in this country with their heart and soal by becoming a citizen. Look at all the illegal immigrants that cross the boarder on a daily basis for work. All that effort and risk but not a single one of them even looks to even try the legal route. Because they don't care about the U.S.. The only concern is to use America for a job, educational benefits, free medical and many other perks and not put one sinlge dime back into it. Because they, like many others that are in fact legal citizens, do not care about or want to be apart of this country. Because being apart of something means that you have to contribute back into it. So many illegal immigrants are here now that it is putting a massive strain on educational resources, infrastucture, medical and other resources that things are starting to fail. If feel really good that I pay school tax every pay check but have no kids while others are sending 6 kids to public school and paying absolutely nothing back in. People here think that they are so patriotic but rarely does anyone look to see if anything is made American anymore. Citizens of other countries pay close attention to things like product origin because they understand that they can not survive alone and that one thing does affect another. This country needs to come together and stop the idiodic infighting that has progressively gotten worse over the last 20 years. One thing that is known is that tragedy has always brought this country together the sad thing is the current slow and methodical tragedy of our economical destruction is going completely unnoticed.