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The Deportation of our Best and Brightest
The Deportation of our Best and Brightest
By Kelly Lewis
7/17/2009 - 12:21:58 PM
The annual Pennsylvania state budget extravaganza showcases the mega-recipients of state aid conducting their annual fear-mongering stunts, billboards and media blitzes. This year the cuts will be real and deep, but the extravaganza is like crying wolf after so many years of sky-is-falling, false crisis creation.
We do not advocate tax or fee increases. Instead we advocate a serious re-prioritization of state budget priorities. Let me share with you some silent, unspoken facts about this budget if it were to pass in its current form.
As presented, this budget is going to help deport your sons and daughters to another state or nation.
"Deportation" is too tough a word, you say? How about "brutally-honest," then?
One year after graduation, 9,000 graduates of Ohio colleges and universities have departed Ohio. In Pennsylvania, a whopping 12,000 graduates have departed the Keystone State. 3,000 more!
Whether you use the words "export," "deport" or "chitty-chitty-bang-bang," Pennsylvania public policy and budget priorities help 12,000 college graduates leave the state within one year of their graduation. (each and every year...)
At state-owned, state-supported and private colleges and universities, the state government subsidy we pay to unilaterally support these 12,000 departing college graduates is extraordinary when you consider how much of the investment is quickly exported to other states and nations! Where is the budget hearing, the resolution or the outrage?
Look, we invest billions in these 12,000 students, that is ultimately benefiting California, Florida, New York and Virginia. No wonder these states market heavily in Pennsylvania as we subsidize the education of their best and brightest imports!
If we invested this much coin into "companies that left Pennsylvania after four years of state aid," the outrage and newspaper editorials would be like blood in the water.
This darn innovation economy is brutally honest. Simply put, Pennsylvania helps deport college graduates because our public policies, high taxes and vast regulations help deport technology and innovation jobs and opportunities. It's just the math in an innovation economy. Be attractive to innovation or face the sad music of woe.
As an industry, technology and innovation is different than manufacturing, farming or construction. The tech industry is lightning fast. Pass laws that kill innovation, the tech industry relocates overnight. Underfund innovation and the tech industry relocates overnight. Lack talent and/or a trained and skilled workforce, the tech industry quickly moves to an accommodating state or nation. Did I mention tech jobs pay 30 to 50 percent more? Or that tech regions create jobs and more jobs?
The proposed state budget would cut technology and innovation by at least $500 million dollars. The budgets for state government information-technology operations will be crippled. At a time when organizations are using more technology, not less; hiring more technology workers and less other workers; we are crippling innovation within state government operations that increase productivity which in turn keeps taxes lower. Cutting state government innovation, impacts many industries and companies that support technology and innovation. Resultingly, if there are no hi-tech jobs for our subsidized college graduates, we will deport more than 12,000 college graduates and again lead the nation in exporting college graduates. The negative multiplier ripple effects will be in the billions in negative impacts.
Without high-tech jobs and an attractive innovation economy, open the flood gates for the deportation of our best and brightest.
Kelly Lewis is president and chief executive officer of TechQuest Pennsylvania, operated by the Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania. klewis@tccp.org, www.techquestpa.com
By Kelly Lewis
7/17/2009 - 12:21:58 PM
The annual Pennsylvania state budget extravaganza showcases the mega-recipients of state aid conducting their annual fear-mongering stunts, billboards and media blitzes. This year the cuts will be real and deep, but the extravaganza is like crying wolf after so many years of sky-is-falling, false crisis creation.
We do not advocate tax or fee increases. Instead we advocate a serious re-prioritization of state budget priorities. Let me share with you some silent, unspoken facts about this budget if it were to pass in its current form.
As presented, this budget is going to help deport your sons and daughters to another state or nation.
"Deportation" is too tough a word, you say? How about "brutally-honest," then?
One year after graduation, 9,000 graduates of Ohio colleges and universities have departed Ohio. In Pennsylvania, a whopping 12,000 graduates have departed the Keystone State. 3,000 more!
Whether you use the words "export," "deport" or "chitty-chitty-bang-bang," Pennsylvania public policy and budget priorities help 12,000 college graduates leave the state within one year of their graduation. (each and every year...)
At state-owned, state-supported and private colleges and universities, the state government subsidy we pay to unilaterally support these 12,000 departing college graduates is extraordinary when you consider how much of the investment is quickly exported to other states and nations! Where is the budget hearing, the resolution or the outrage?
Look, we invest billions in these 12,000 students, that is ultimately benefiting California, Florida, New York and Virginia. No wonder these states market heavily in Pennsylvania as we subsidize the education of their best and brightest imports!
If we invested this much coin into "companies that left Pennsylvania after four years of state aid," the outrage and newspaper editorials would be like blood in the water.
This darn innovation economy is brutally honest. Simply put, Pennsylvania helps deport college graduates because our public policies, high taxes and vast regulations help deport technology and innovation jobs and opportunities. It's just the math in an innovation economy. Be attractive to innovation or face the sad music of woe.
As an industry, technology and innovation is different than manufacturing, farming or construction. The tech industry is lightning fast. Pass laws that kill innovation, the tech industry relocates overnight. Underfund innovation and the tech industry relocates overnight. Lack talent and/or a trained and skilled workforce, the tech industry quickly moves to an accommodating state or nation. Did I mention tech jobs pay 30 to 50 percent more? Or that tech regions create jobs and more jobs?
The proposed state budget would cut technology and innovation by at least $500 million dollars. The budgets for state government information-technology operations will be crippled. At a time when organizations are using more technology, not less; hiring more technology workers and less other workers; we are crippling innovation within state government operations that increase productivity which in turn keeps taxes lower. Cutting state government innovation, impacts many industries and companies that support technology and innovation. Resultingly, if there are no hi-tech jobs for our subsidized college graduates, we will deport more than 12,000 college graduates and again lead the nation in exporting college graduates. The negative multiplier ripple effects will be in the billions in negative impacts.
Without high-tech jobs and an attractive innovation economy, open the flood gates for the deportation of our best and brightest.
Kelly Lewis is president and chief executive officer of TechQuest Pennsylvania, operated by the Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania. klewis@tccp.org, www.techquestpa.com
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