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No reason you can't both invest in kids, and welcome people.

• convolvatron 9y ago
  you can, and you should. but it seems like the us has it made right now, a substantial amount of talent from overseas and abysmal investment in the native populace. if you want to keep underinvesting in education, and keep a strong presence in new technologies/science/commerce...why would you turn off the magic spigot? even if you started trying to right the ship of education, there's no way you could compensate for the talent thats coming in across the border, particularly in the short term.
  • davidw 9y ago
    > abysmal investment in the native populace. Yes, that's absolutely true. I'm not much of an expert in that policy area, although it does seem the Bureau of Indian Affairs isn't working out well in some ways.
• tonmoy 9y ago
  Somehow it is ending up being neither