Again, apologies to the SNL skit writer, but after tripping over this article in ComputerWorld (“Anything but IT”), I couldn’t help from re-ripping off SNL. So people are surprised kids don’t want to sink money into an IT education because they fear it would be just a matter of time before what job they could find would be outsourced? (I still remember back in the bubble days when US kids didn’t want to do anything with computer science for fear of a Dilbert lifestyle.)

So I guess it all comes back to implementing some sort of protectionist measures for the preservation of the US workforce. Get a crazy-complex as you want, or do something as simple as sunsetting those tax rewards encouraging outsourcing and implementing tax benefits for companies that keep their jobs on domestic territory. Who knows? Just do something!

Update (11/30): So this latest CW article makes mention of how employers are going to fight to increase the H1-B cap next year, but the really interesting blurb from the article is this sidebar talking about the additional restrictions made to the L-1 visa. It’s kinda scarey (but not surprising) that of the two abuse concerns about the L-1, that is, using it to replace existing employees or contract out to other businesses - it was the latter that the government was trying to combat. Well, regardless, hopefully it’ll help the unemployment situation…