What Fruits Will Reduced R&D Bear For The U.S.?

lucabrasi999 writes "Here's an interesting commentary from Mike Tarsala at CBS.Marketwatch.com regarding R&D spending by U.S. companies as it compares to overseas firms. It compares today's US tech firms to the Big Three Automakers of the 70's, while saying the overseas tech firms are similar to the Toyotas and Hondas of the 70's. In other words, US Tech firms are about to be taught a lesson in global capitalism. I think Mike is 100% correct. What do you think?"

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Pathetic

[Sanity]

If you were any good at your job, you would have no trouble competing with other tech workers, H1B or not.

Whenever I hear people gripe about H1B workers, they are basically saying "I suck at my job so I need labor protectionism to get rid of my competition".

Re:Yep

[t0ny]

So you are telling me that Rocky never became champion, am I correct? If I remember correctly, there are what, five Rocky movies? Just because you cant remember past the events in the first film doesnt mean that its not in the popular lexicon.

Please try and give just a bit of thought before clicking that "Submit" button on the bottom. The world hardly cares what your opinion of the series is.

There is a limit

[malloc]

And you would be in line for the benefits of Hitler's "research" too? I think not.

The issue here is not "should we do R&D or not", it's about who is human. Benefits can be had from all kinds of things, the question is, are they ethical?

Whatever your view on human life and unborn babies, everone has to aknowledge it's a serious issue. Though obviously not as easy to evaluate, it has the same moral weight as if we were debating the "humanness" of all 8-year-olds. Whatever you decide, you're making a serious call.

For me the question is not what but who we're doing research on, and in the case of stem cell research, we've stepped over the line.

-Malloc

Re:Yep

[macdaddy357]

Even if the economy weren't in the dumper, corporate America wouldn't bother with R&D, unless they had a government grant. All executives care about is robbing and looting companies to make themselves rich, and R&D cost a lot of money. Greed for greed's own sake has destroyed the US economy. What we are experiencing now could be the second great depression.