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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm fine with academia not getting any federal funds. Especially research, there is a pervasive attitude that Americans aren't interested, and they need H-1B.  Let the foreigners pay for their own research and skills.  Quit training our competition that is what I say.

I could see if the whole academic H-1b worked the way it was sold to us.  EG We don't have specific skills, they bring in professors to teach us the skills.  However, that isn't the way it works.  The H-1b they bring in are horrible at transferring knowledge to Americans, they take lower wages then drive out Americans, and bring in more foreigners, "Because Americans aren't interested."

Bringing in Foreigners to teach us skills, only makes sense if we're actually interested in the skills.  Who is going to study for twenty years to work in a cubicle for a median wage and long hours?  Bus drivers and plumber's make more money and have more job security.

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This is the definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face. [/quote]

The current administration is questioning whether it is necessary for the U.S. taxpayer to fund various research projects, particularly at universities with large endowments who can easily afford to fund such projects on their own.  Likewise, the current administration is freezing funds from going to universities that refuse to enforce their own rules against antisemitism or who are breaking federal law.

No university is entitled to Federal funds.[/quote]

Nobody is entitled to anything, except for Social Security.  But the United States [b]should [/b]fund research universities, for many reasons.

Most of us know that.  Are you Lutnick or Bessent trying to sell your "Mar-A-Largo Accord"?[/quote]

But what "should" the U.S. Government fund?  And even if it "should" fund a particular program, must it do so if the university fails to enforce its own rules against antisemitism or is breaking federal law?[/quote]

That sounds like identity politics to me … I thought y’all were fed up with that?[/quote]

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