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The emerging pattern in American society has a sinister resemblance to the decadent sheikdoms of the Gulf, which can't pump their own oil without massive foreign labor: Americans handle the financial and marketing side of things while we let foreigners do the engineering and the hard stuff. The national-security implications alone are chilling.

This is the emerging pattern and it does not portend good things for the future. Hey, I'm all for cutting regulation and taxes on business (like no taxes at all on business) but I don't think our government should be in the foreign recruitment business when the welfare of its citizens should be its primary goal. After all isn’t this what we pay taxes for?

That pattern has been going on for thirty years, it is just increasing now. Go to most aerospace and computer companies and 30-50% of the engineers and programmers who work there will be people who were born outside of the U.S. Many of the older American engineers are heading towards retirement, so these numbers will probably increase. In the colleges, 60% of the young (under 40) professors in engineering and computer science were not born in the U.S.