Let’s stop pretending this is complicated. It’s not. We’ve spent 25 years watching American companies train foreign talent, outsource their own innovation, and then cry labor shortage when they realized they can’t find skilled workers at home. Newsflash: you can’t find them because you stopped building them. I know because I was there. I spent months in India during the dot-com boom, training my replacements. Not metaphorically — literally. These people were brilliant. PhDs,