[RightWhale]

If Americans have priced themselves out of the market, they deserve to be punished by the market.

IT is not all programming. Most of these jobs would be data entry, keystrokes per minute. The economy is going global, though, and this is just the beginning. America is fine, though, just needing some adjustment to priorities, somethng that is well underway since WTC911.

[just_living]

"America is fine"
You said it, and that was kinda my point. We will figure it out, we always do. There is no sense in fighing market forces (it is nonsense actually). America is no good at legislating solutions to issues like this, we are good at coming up with whole new industries that will employ the clever people who were formally programmers.
My other point is that as a business owner am I supposed to feel some moral obligation to hiring overpriced Americans when I can get the same product cheaper by outsourcing? That makes no sense to me.