Growth of scientific literature remains strong, while the world of science continues to flatten

Growth in the number of U.S. papers was a more modest 33,000, or 19%, from 178,000 in 1988 to 211,000 in 2003. From 1991 to 2002, there was no sustained growth. Annual totals held at between 194,000 and 203,000 and were at 196,000 for 2002. The 2003 total moved up to 211,000 for the biggest annual gain in many years.

The data on the papers in ACS journals come from a program that has expanded from 19 journals in 1988 to 33 in 2005 and so have a substantially higher growth rate than for chemistry itself.

U.S. share of the world's science and engineering graduates is declining rapidly as European and Asian universities, particularly from China, have increased S&E degrees while US degree production has stagnated.

The job market has worsened

Populous low income countries such as China and India can compete with the US in high tech by having many S&E specialists although those workers are a small proportion of their work force

No company should get a tax break for outsourcing jobs. Instead, tax breaks should go to manufacturers who set up shop here at home. Bigger tax breaks should go to high-tech manufacturers who create the jobs of the future

The Indian IT sector, which gets 60 per cent of its export revenue from the US, has come out strongly against US moves to stop outsourcing.

"Meanwhile, America is more productive than ever. And companies like Boeing are realising that even when we can't make things cheaper than China, we can make things better. That's how we're going to compete globally," Obama said. Obama said Boeing's business right now is booming. Last year, orders for commercial aircraft rose by more than 50 per cent.

This is purely theoretical, though. In practice, powerful nations can come to control less powerful ones through conquest, either economic or military. In the age of globalization

, labor has become the comparative advantage of less prosperous nations. This is one of the reasons why so many jobs that once belonged to Americans go to China and India, Vietnam and Mexico–their laborers will work for less.

environmental sustainability

Again, inability to find work means inability to purchase homes, spend money, and profit companies

greater desire to outsource to make things more cheaply so they will be more attractive to consumers.

Further, many argue that giving jobs to workers in less developed countries improves those countries economically and increases trade for US products.

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