That's their own doing, for having skills that can easily be replaced. And, no one (other than Howard Dean and Co.) is stopping them from making lemonade out of that batch of lemons.
But, in your view, the government MUST do something about it, right? No room for self-initiative...
I haven't said what you view was, have I? But you're right, the government must do something. That's why we have a government...or haven't you noticed. If fact, it ALWAYS acts...in support of one ideology or another, one interest group or another, one faction or another.