The government isn't what's taken away most of the jobs, nor is outsourcing. Rather, better technology and increased efficiency have cost Americans the most jobs. Many jobs have been lost to outsourcing, but not most of them.

> 60% of Americans believe it is very important for state
> governments to also get involved in nanoscience research funding;

Whenever you tell a layperson that a thing is good (no justification is necessary; most will believe what you tell them), and then ask whether the government should increase funding for it, the answer will inevitably be "yes". If you follow up that question with "would you like your taxes increased?" the answer will just as inevitably be "hell no!" Which, of course, brings us to the current national debt problem…

> 80% of Americans cannot name a single company that
> is a leader in nanotechnology development; and

I think myself very well informed on the subject of nanotechnology, but even I have difficulty naming any company as a "leader". If you have MNT in mind, like I do, then Zyvex is the only company I know that does any research. If you look at nanomaterials, then everybody is a follower. They just try their best to crush things finer than 1/10000th of a human hair and see what happens. I can not bring myself to call this "leadership in research".

> the older you are, the more you understand the
> importance of U.S. leadership. Younger Americans
> may take U.S. technology leadership for granted.

Not at all. Younger Americans have no faith in government and do not expect it to create "technological leadership". In fact, with current trends in outsourcing, they are likely to believe the government their enemy, that takes away any tech jobs they can take. These days are not good days for being a fresh college graduate.

> Nanoscience is the science of making things very
> small; and refers to a new array of machines and
> materials whose key parts are less than 10
> nanometers, about 10,000 times smaller than the
> width of a human hair.

With a definition like this, is it any wonder that there is so little nanotechnology research? First it completely excludes MNT, and then it insults the reader's intelligence by using "human hair" as the unit of measurement. How can you ask people to understand what a nanomachine is, when they do not know the meaning of "nanometer"?