This thread isn't about IT. Nor should an honest person put what mysterious others have somehow "hailed" in the past as being my words today.
IT is a single industry that is getting hammered. No argument from me on that fact. In contrast, our economy on the whole is expanding (2.4% in the last Quarter, for instance). Moreover, national average salaries have actually gone up over the last five years.
Does that mean that the American middle class is numerically shrinking in size? Of course not.
Does that mean that you should be blaming Bush for the gloom in the IT industry? Of course not.
Does that mean that Bush should be hammered for answering a question about textile workers as if he was talking about IT? Of course not.
Yet somehow that is where we stand on this thread...