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But, how does a nation retrain millions of offshored degreed engineers....

Again, it's always somebody else's job to do this? These folks went to college. Some even to grad school. If they learned anything there at all, they'll be enterprising enough to discover what it means to be the captains of their own success. If they learned nothing and just went throught the motions, and glad handed their way through, that will be seen for what it is too.

Instead of waiting for a hand-out in a bread line, thinking that a "training program" comes from someone other than themselves, maybe they should look inwardly and see what it is about their skills-set they have to market and sell without someone having to think one up for them.

maybe they should look inwardly and see what it is about their skills-set they have to market and sell without someone having to think one up for them.

My point has been that if almost all the jobs are exported, exactly what market will there be to fill? The answer that I have been keeping to myself, but waiting for someone else to offer, is there will be none. If almost all the jobs are exported, no amount of retraining, self-assessment, or adjustment to one's approach will help.

You have taken my statement out of context and are insinuating that engineers have a welfare mentality.
The original context of my statement was that a cashier requires minimal training in the first place, the retraining options to an equal or better paying job are numerous. The same can not be said for engineers. That was the context and you certainly misrepresented what I wrote.

Many years of education by this country were spent to build its engineering expertise. This is an expensive and valuable talent pool. It is a necessary labor for technology, and technology is what builds today's superpower. By replacing American engineers with foreigners, we are leaving ourselves vulnerable and dependent. This is not wise. Already there are fewer engineering students, so the future American engineering pool is beginning to shrink.
Maybe you want to live in a nation that is dependent for technology on foreign nations, even hostile ones, but most Americans do not.
Lou Dobbs expressed it pretty well recently:
"We can no longer sustain a free-trade policy that does not insist on reciprocal, mutual benefits to both our economy and those of our trading partners. Globalization at any price is proving to be too high a price for this nation to pay."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/104100p-94205c.html