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To: bentway who wrote (319912)	1/10/2007 12:20:39 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1575955

Yes, Chris, you are exactly right. I experience that phenomenon first hand in my IT consulting world. It's getting more expensive to entice Indian and Chinese folks to stay here in the US and American workers are so scarce that they are expensive too. It's driving all the wage rates up, which is eating into our margins and constraining our ability to service all the business that is to be had out there. In short, this engineering shortage is a very big US problem and it's getting worse. It has a direct impact on our economy, lowering growth and kicking up inflation levels. I guess the humorous side of all this is back in 2002-3, everyone was bemoaning the loss of jobs oversees. Well, that has accelerated. But the reason they were complaining is that there weren't enough jobs for Americans at that time. Well, there are plenty now, but not enough American engineers to fill those jobs. Go figure. We shot ourselves in the foot by not pushing more students to go the engineering route. I think this country needs to make a national commitment to engineering in general. Sustained and deep. Make it permanently sexy to be an engineer and we'll never lose our tech edge in this country. That's exactly what India and China has done and look what that has done for their growth!