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> USA will lost it comparative advantage in Hi-Tech. My expectation is that Chinnese and Indians will become major Hi-Tech nations. They will do what Japanese done

I agree that this will happen but I think it will be due to lower costs overseas and not necessarily due to a higher quality workforce. Although if that is true then I would like to see studies done or corporations vouching for that. I think U.S. students may actually consider training overseas if that is the case.

I was not aware that the wage levels were similar in the U.S. and Bulgaria. Why do we have so many Bulgarians in the U.S. then? What is the attraction? Most foreign nationals I talk to are here not for freedom and human rights but for the All-American dollar or an education.

I have not seen any $11/hour programming jobs but that does not mean that they do not exist. I think that when there are fewer jobs than qualified applicants, the wage scale drops quite a bit so that may be the reason for it occuring now. There are many IT professionals out of work in the U.S. right now. There are also many smaller metropolitan areas that pay less than the average larger-metrolpolitan area in the U.S.

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