Coins without faces

So, the Chicago Tribune yesterday ran an article about a report that the World Bank came out with about how the 'brain drain' phenomenon is crippling developing countries. I don't have enough time to write a rant about the wankers who break their JPA or MARA bonds and waste the hundreds of thousands of ringgit the government spent on them, or the idiots in the government who don't make the fines high enough so that people can't break their bonds. But the brain drain has been one of my minor obsessions since about sophomore year of college.

Basically the report's saying: You may want to stay in America because your home country sucks, but it's NOT GONNA STOP SUCKING until some of you pinheaded upper-middle-class brats work up the guts to go home and try to make it better. Read the report.

"Their vacant faces were like coins worn away by use, which had lost their imprint and only differed because they were made of different metals. Because they had come to regard the world as a great highway, they had lost all their sense of nationality: they no longer had a town, or a hearth; and, in consequence, they had no motherland."

-- Emile Souvestre, The World as It Shall Be [Le Monde tel qu'il sera], 1846

I pray for the courage to.