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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Focus on training US citizens and giving rural and city kids a chance. The US imports way too much foreign talent.[/quote]
This already exists.  I was one of those kids and got hundreds of thousands of dollars in support from the US government from undergrad through my PhD.  Really.

You still need to fund actual science.  And you need to recruit top global talent to have the best, most advanced science being done in the US. Many of those foreign students are funded by their home country and are basically free labor for US PIs.  There's no reason to not have them come.  They're bright and do a lot of good science to support US professors and universities.

I really think the biggest issue is that most people are generally clueless about the system.  They've never heard of a Goldwater Scholarship or an NSF SRP or an NSF GRF.    You have an opinion based on Republican talking points, but it's not based in reality.  There are tons of programs to support US students in the sciences and pretty much every American student who wants to try to get a PhD in the sciences has a chance if they want it. Many decide it's too much work.  Others fail out.  But until the current administration, as an American it wasn't hard to get a fully funded spot in a US PhD program in the sciences.  You needed a BS and at least middling grades.[/quote]

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