[Jumper]

What I think is that all the western countries, e.g., Germany, Holland, Belguim, France, and the US have all made a concerted decision to do several things to this end. We have created a system whereby qualified foreigners can come to the US and take some of the wage pressure off employers. We have created a system which will attract the best and brightest from other nations, thereby deminishing the democrat pool.

If one views it through protectionist eyewear, they will only see the negatives. I for one see the glass more than half full in this instance. To all allow people to stay in their native countries and enrich the economies in direct competition with our own is stupid over the long run. As a Systems Administrator I know full well that there are too many overpaid "professionals" around me.... My point is that Americans in the IT field have been well paid for a long time and the ROI is just not always there; Americans should give more value to their employers or else they have succumbed to the "socialist theory of employment", e.g., that they are entitled without competition to their lifestyles.

[grania]

As a Systems Administrator I know full well that there are too many overpaid "professionals" around me....

Are you going to feel that way until you're the "overpaid professional" who is replaced?

[mabelkitty]

It's a concerted effort to keep wages down, as Alan Greenspan dictated was necessary.