Education vs. industry is a chicken vs. egg issue, I'd say.

With regard to DOE, currently we're talking about taking money away
and people losing jobs, not "investing more" in DOE. While it can be
argued that DOE could stand to lose some fat without impacting
educational outcomes, certainly any people losing jobs is not going to
help the economy. (Not to mention the fact that public workers losing
jobs will probably impact reelections more than a few whining "high
tech" companies.)

As usual, the incentives are not aligned with long term aims.


On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Paul Lawler<plawler@...> wrote:
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> On Jul 2, 2009, at 10:07 , Peter Kay wrote:
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>> Finally, right now the dominant industry (tourism) doesn't need
>> college grads
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> I take exception to that remark. ;o)
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