hell, I've been programming since the beignning of time...lololol
But I can't never been replaced by anyone
...... Key has been to be in a niche and able to provide solutions that most can't....
But Torone, (surprisingly) I agree with you in a lot of respects... Back when all that was done, there were very optimistic projections of what would be needed in the future for IT needs.... Unfortunately, those projections were way over inflated because of the dot com boom and the Y2K push.... First drop was right after we got through Y2K and the world didn't explode, then in March 2000 when the dot com bust started, was the beginning of the end...
Overall effect of H1B and the overly inflated projections was to hand off a bunch of U.S. IT jobs to imports.....
I don't necessarilly blame dems or reps for it as much as I blame the big businesses who were not looking past the end of their noses on what their actually needs were and what they would be in the future....
I also blame all the folks that went job hopping for a couple of years there and are now out of work... For me, it paid off big time not to jump on every bandwagon that came along... I hopped once in 1999 to a dot com type company... Layoffs came in July 2001 but because I hadn't burned any bridges along the way, I managed to jump right back into database programming for a different company but same folks that I had worked with prior to 1999... Loyalty and continuity can help in the long run....