Sure, but the parent post asserted "The US and the UK have the most open policies" which isn't true. And the article was about policy, not neighborhood accepta

Sure, but the parent post asserted "The US and the UK have the most open policies" which isn't true. And the article was about policy, not neighborhood acceptance. The US has some of the best talent because of the economy, which is arguably a result of WWII (Germany, UK, Japan, etc all had to rebuild, we did not). And, in my possibly jaded opinion, the bureaucracy is a feature not a bug. Politicians don't really want to fix anything because that would remove one of the drums they beat come election time.