Europe laps us

While the U.S. flounders in paranoid post-9/11 confusion, Europe is grabbing the talented Indian workers necessary to sustain both its population and its economy:

In recent months, the ministry of overseas Indian affairs is negotiating with Belgium, Poland, Sweden and France to facilitate migration of skilled professionals from India over the next few years. It is a win-win situation. While Europe requires skilled personnel like engineers and health workers and those in other semi-skilled professions, the EU provides a good alternative for Indians facing laws that discourage migration in US and UK and human rights issues in the Gulf countries.

This is exactly what we should be doing. We need more skilled workers for our tech companies, more entrepreneurs, and more young eager productive workers in general. India has 4 times our population and about twice our total number of skilled workers, with nowhere near enough good jobs for them all. What's more, India is a country with whom the U.S. recently sealed an alliance of sorts, and there's no better way to seal a long-term alliance than with a large transfer of population.
European countries usually don't get out in front of the U.S. when it comes to far-sighted economic policies, but here they've lapped us good.