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Entry: Have I Turned Against Ron Paul? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/have_i_turned_against_ron_paul#13003 Post contents: Bob: You are basically making a protectionist argument for college admissions which is wrongheaded. The main reasons Americans are not getting admitted to top colleges has to do with the fact that our public schools are doing a poor job educating people and, frankly, that many American students, instead of applying themselves to their studies, are out drinking and getting involved in god-only-knows-what. Also, getting a college education isn't a zero sum game. If the demand for an education is there, educational institutions will expand their programs and admissions. In fact, in many cases, foreign students actually subsidize programs because they don't get the same level of financial support that the American students do. Finally, if you go to Silicon Valley and to global powerhouse companies like Google, where do think they draw their pool of talent from? Without the foreign students, these companies either will not exist or they will shift operations overseas. Sent at: 2008 07 09