[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?

[hedgetrimmer]

So what the heck is all the moaning and whining for? What is supposed to be wrong with $12 trillion a year

If its only multinationals earning that kind of money, they don't give a fig for the country or our people. So what good is it for the American people to sacrifice all so a handful of companies with globalist loyalties can succeed?

[Fee]

If the economy is doing soooo well, why is GWB approval rating below 50 percent. With the low unemployment numbers and great GDP numbers, GWB and GOP should be soaring in the polls even against a biased MSM. They are not because the economic and employment numbers are great at the wholesale level, but free trade/globalism at the retail level is not so rosy. Outsourcing and low cost H-1B is affecting the job security of many American workers. It is as threatening as the open border polcies of the government for illegal immigrants. All have economical consequences at the kitchen table level.

[GingisK]

finance, law, etc

These don't keep a country at the forefront of engineering. They generally retard that growth.

Engineers are not lawyers or bankers. Can't even think that way. We mastered math, and science in 4+ year degrees, then honed these skills through experiance. What I do is still needed ... it was not made obsolete.