If Software was America's only business, then you'd have a point. However, the U.S. has *millions* of different types of businesses. At any given moment, some of those businesses are becoming extinct, or changing, or shrinking, or growing. New businesses are being added every day, too.
So what matters overall is *not* what happens inside any one business, but to the whole economy.
...And for that, we know that unemployment is down, overall employment is up, and wages are up even after being adjusted for inflation.
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But there is definitly something wrong with coporate stockholder mentality, when companies reward failure CEO's like CEO Carly Fiorina of HP, with a 21 million severance package, while the company is losing money and outsourcing jobs like crazy to India.
And software and computer companies aren't alone in this stupidity. Sorry to sound negative, but the attitudes of many politicians and corporate heads toward the middle class, and blue collar workers just isn't right. They treat them like crap. Why, I haven't a clue. But they do. http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/09/technology/hp_fiorina/