[Torie]

Making broad statements of the facts on the ground based on personal anecdotal evidence simply won't cut it. But then I suspect you aleady know that.

[Hoplite]

Well lucky you - I just went through this exercise, and can happily report that despite a recession in 2000, median household income continues it's march upwards.

[oceanview]

its happening across too many tech companies in too many industries for it to be "anecdotal". and its feeding back into the college education system - americans are piling their kids into law school, fleeing tech and the sciences. once India and China have an opportunity to build their higher education systems, those foreign engineering students will also fall out of the US system. I guess we will still have arab muslims studying engineering in the US - just great.

you want statistics? tell the labor department to show us wage growth, and remove those making $250K per year from the stats. because when Oracle sends 1000 $70K US programmers to India, and pays their top 25 executives bonuses that total the amount saved, the wage statistics "even out", but we all understand the real effects of such a move. at least I do.

[SealSeven]

Torie,
Would you agree that keeping these jobs in the US would be good for the US? If not, how?