"What the caterpillar calls the end of life, wise men call a butterfly."

Here's an example of wanting to have it both ways.

On the one hand, graduate students in areas like engineering in the US do a lot of the grunt work in basic research and development. After they pay their dues in the lab they often go on to start companies in places like Silicon Valley that employ everyone from purchasing agents to sales reps. It's important to note that many of those graduate students aren't Americans - they're foreigners! The number of foreign students coming to the US is falling dramatically, mainly because of rising application costs and the inability to obtain Visas due to the 'fortress America' mindset after 9/11.

Instead, those students are going to other countries and doing the research and starting their companies in places like France, Australia, or -pick a country that invites them-

Jobs aren't getting created in the US because companies don't have the engineers to do the basic research and new companies aren't getting created. Add to that multinationals realize that labor costs are significantly lower overseas and all those smart employable kids are in schools in other countries.

In Wisconsin on Tuesday, George Bush noted "a lot of talk about jobs going overseas." It's not just talk; jobs, including high-paying white collar jobs, are going overseas. He then goes on to say, "But the best way to deal with that in my judgment is to make sure America remains the best place in the world to do business so that our job base will expand."

On the one hand we have an administration implementing policies that insure creative talent goes to other countries and new businesses fly foreign flags, and on the other, it says it wants to make the US the best place to do business.

You can't have it both ways.