[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

Bank of America forced almost every American IT employee to train their Indian replacements by threatening them with the loss of their severance pay. They were then summarily fired. Someone I know in BofA said that he has been letting excellent IT programmers go every week. He was told 5 or 6 a week, not en masse.
You are the first to suggest, to my knowledge, that there is a quality problem with our IT programmers. There may be some inexperienced raw recruits that fit this description. But, that has NOTHING to do with the loss of jobs in IT.
Sun Microsystems fired all of their older and most experienced software engineers and replaced every one with young Indian H1B visa workers. Siemens did they same. There is a growing list of examples and no one has even hinted that the problem is with the quality of work.
Everyone in Silicon Valley was known for working tons of unpaid overtime. The American work ethic is not too blame either.

[zeromus]

The problem is that the discipline is not as esoteric as it used to be. One day it may primarily be a generic entry-level non-degree job for 18yr old high school graduates with no knowlege whatsoever--like fast food, say--and I do not think that is not an admirable goal. The best computer scientists ought to be striving to make their necessity obsolete. Perhaps theyre doing a good job.