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CIOs who make ill-informed decisions will be unable to find or develop qualified talent when they need it.

We're going to have a whole country with no engineers at this rate. I can't imagine this, and yet I see it happening.

I want to tell kids to go into engineering. Nothing spells "the future" like engineering. But right now, any kid who takes my advice will probably go into debt earning a degree in a field in which there will be no jobs. Furthermore, he'll face hardships paying off that debt while waiting tables at Pizza Hut.

Getting a degree in Engineering is heading toward being like getting a degree in History. All you can do with it is teach it somewhere.

You're right. This is going to be a big issue by November 2004. Right now, Bush looks blindsided. He doesn't appear to see it at all.

You're right. This is going to be a big issue by November 2004. Right now, Bush looks blindsided. He doesn't appear to see it at all.

Yes, this will be an issue for 2004. But I don't think any of the candidates see it yet.

I once thought the Bush team was clueless also.
But, here's a very recent article from the Christian Science Monitor regarding the Trade Act of 2002. In it are provisions to greatly expand government handouts for those Americans left unemployed.
In other words, the Bush economic team fully understand the negative impact of their new trade policies:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/962929/posts

Of course, they may not know what Karl Rove is realizing and supposedly concerned about, that most of these hard-working Americans voted for Bush in 2000, but have little reason to vote for him again. That list is growing.