It is a great deal for the US.
The rest of world pays to educate its engineers, and then they go and work in the US. Harry Jed Rothwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > See: > > http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/02/20/us_could_see_its > _advantage_in_technology_slip_away/ > > "China now graduates four times as many engineers as the United States, > while the European Union countries graduate three times as many. At the > same time, the US lead is slipping in technology patents and science and > engineering doctoral degrees. Emerging nations are also becoming adept at > capitalizing on technologies invented in the developed world." > > As teenagers say: Well, duh. > > - Jed > >

