Quote from fatrat:
I'm not sitting in liberal arts classes listening to professors tell me what the nature of affairs is. I'm in graduate school in a quantitative field (think lots and lots of math). When I look at the numbers and growth, it becomes painfully obvious to me that the era of American dominance is over. What's left here are politicians who've distanced themselves from the founding principles (the constitution) and are fighting over the last remnants of prosperity that are left. I'm content to let these idiots squabble over the crumbs while I go in search of the bigger pie.
Why would I want to start a business and innovate in this country when Charlie Rangel in congress is thinking about putting another 4% tax on my income (which is above $150,000/yr)? There's no logic in staying in a country that doesn't look at these sorts of ideas with hostility. The fact that the impoverished and uneducated masses are voting for and propping up more and more buffoons like Rangel is a sign to me that it is time to jump ship.
If you aren't looking at the facts and making the assessment that you should jump ship, you're just misguided. It has nothing to do with what academia is saying. I find it absolutely amazing how many of you are anti-university. It's as if you all flunked out of a low-tier liberal arts college and never went through an engineering/science program anywhere worthwhile.
Blind patriotism makes no sense. It's analogous to staying long in Enron stock instead of switching to cash.
