[Reelect President Dubya]

Evidently some people think that the world and the economy are never supposed to change.

Repeat after me: THE ECONOMY IS CYCLICAL!!!

The engineering and (especially) computing fields have had wild up and down swings since the beginning.

In the sixties there was the the aerospace depression. Life Magazine ran a picture of a PhD engineer stocking grocery shelves.

A few years later there was a scarcity of engineers, and pay was sky-high.

The end of the world is not here.

Grow up.

[templar]

In the sixties there was the the aerospace depression. Life Magazine ran a picture of a PhD engineer stocking grocery shelves.

Since the focus here is American workers in the high tech field being replaced by foreign workers in that field, are you suggesting that the Phd engineer in your example was stocking groceries because he was forced out of his profession by cheaper foreign labor? If not, then your example is unrelated to the discussion of foreign high tech people replacing American high tech people.

[looscnnn]

But with the destruction of the .com economy, there are plenty of IT people that are working jobs other than in the IT field. They could be working the jobs that are being done by the H1 and L1 visas.

Were there any visa workers doing the jobs of the PhD engineers during the aerospace depression? I doubt it.

[unixfox]

Grow up.

You are obviously not in a tech related field.

Wake Up.

[philetus]

Repeat after me: THE ECONOMY IS CYCLICAL!!!

Not any more

[TLI]

Grow up.

I have been hit by the IT crunch for about 6 years now, am I grown up enough YET?