[GingisK]

Fully qualified Americans are not exactly lining up for the soup kitchen

Many fully qualified people are in jobs that do not make use of their skills. Jobs for technical folks have gotten scarce. You simply aren't watching for the employment ads that were once plentiful. I know. I am.

[JasonC]

It isn't the dot-com boom, no. But there are plenty of new jobs in tech and in other high paying parts of the economy (finance, law, etc). And nobody but nobody is lined up for a soup kitchen. So what the heck is all the moaning and whining for? What is supposed to be wrong with $12 trillion a year and 4.7% unemployment and 2 million new jobs a year? If this is supposed to be economic hardship, what is a boom? And at what rate or what level of income, would you welcome a single highly skilled person into the country?